Recent content by Paulie68

I am, I'm adding another classic to my collection sometime this year and having the body of my '55 VW professionally restored as well. The classics give me way more enduring long term pleasure than the daily drivers do, no matter how nice. As this is also going to cost a small fortune, I'm...

Never has there been a more apt use of the term "From the sublime to the ridiculous" !! :ROFLMAO: Joking aside though, I'm sure that will be much better for the forest car parks. I wish you happy, if much more mundane, motoring in your new car.

Crash damaged cars that can be repaired and put back on the road in the UK get a Cat N or S marker. (N=non structural, S=structural damage) This will stay with them if repaired and put back on the road and has the effect of devaluing them by around 30% at the point of future sale. The system...

Actually, the majority of "written off" cars, deemed not economical to repair with Cat S or N markers actually get sold on and repaired, often to eastern Europe. Copart sell thousands each week at salvage auctions all around the UK. Only the obliterated ones from severe crashes get a B marker...

The older cars do seem to be stubbornly sitting around at above 40k. Not selling much though, so it's an act of gravity defiance, once the 40k barrier gets broken, they all have to fall to below this pretty soon. I'm getting fed up of waiting too and having seen a couple driving around here...

Haha! Not quite, but depreciation is a great thing. I know we all like the latest thing, but if you can discipline yourself to just consider 3 year old cars, this is actually the optimum time to buy a car financially! ;)

Soon, you will be able to get the base car, pre reg, for £15k with a hard haggle I reckon. ;)

Pre reg bargains starting at £16k within 6 months! ;)

Presumably they're only banning the yolk for multi-turn systems, which is the right decision if so.

I read somewhere once that just to refine a gallon of petrol or diesel uses as many kW of energy as just using that energy in the form of electricity to power an EV for as far as that refined gallon would move an ICE car! Let that sink in for a moment. Then you have all the additional energy use...

I don't see any of them still being here after 70+ years, like my VW or your classics, I'll give you that! :ROFLMAO: I think you've been influenced by the dishonest anti EV narrative on EV build pollution though, I'm recognising what you're parroting, and have heard it before almost word for...

Just go with the 6.9% then for the bigger discount and pay it off next week! :ROFLMAO:

Well it's not hype, it's facts. EV's are just better cars all around. The environmental advantages are also not "alleged" but very real comparing like for like ICE and EV cars cradle to grave for the given vehicle itself and fuel source. The driver aids, I get that, they can be annoying, but...

I almost disagree completely too. Our MG5 will "only" do 160 miles safely in cold, wet, winter use, but we still rarely have to charge away from home and when we occasionally do, the chargers are mostly perfectly fine, just too damned expensive, I do agree with you on that one.

They'll be terrible. My new MG5 Trophy cost £21000 just over 12 months ago, now it's worth £14k tops for trade in. But it doesn't matter much over 3 years or so, as it's a large percentage chopped off from a very much smaller initial figure to start with, so if you're keeping for a few years...