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I need a car and i have no clue!
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Hiya. Wasnt usre what board to put this on but anyway .....
Im wating to buy my first car. But, being the type of dippy gal that I am I have no clue about all the different makes and styles etc. I want something not too expensive but cool. Any suggestions? Also, is there any cars that you can buy in either lilac, pink or baby blue - something pretty??? :flirt:
thanks for your help!
Im wating to buy my first car. But, being the type of dippy gal that I am I have no clue about all the different makes and styles etc. I want something not too expensive but cool. Any suggestions? Also, is there any cars that you can buy in either lilac, pink or baby blue - something pretty??? :flirt:
thanks for your help!
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Good luck
If I could drive id have a nice lickle Fiesta
and NOT red !!!
How much d'ya want to spend? First or second hand? What sort of a car - supermini, hatchback, etc...
Gi's a bit of help and maybe a suggestion might come up.
Ummm, well i want a new car. Not to bothered about the price (within reason!) and want a fairly small car to begin with - nothing grand or massive
I got a 206 in silvery blue (moonstone)
You can get Honda Jazz's in baby pink and baby blue :yes:
Again, totally useless information there.
What's "not bothered/within reason"? £5k or £15k? Need to get some guidelines sorted out, otherwise you may end up getting a car that's too expensive and doesn't suit you. Think about fuel - petrol or diesel? Diesel's almost defintely cheaper in the long run. Doors? Three or five door? Boot space? What sort of expectations do you have on warranty? Cost of running and reliability.
Am guessing you're looking at any of the following:
Peugot 106/206/306
VW Lupo, Polo or Golf
Smart car
Fiat Punto
Ford Fiesta or Focus
Vauxhall Corsa or Astra
Seat Leon
Citroen C2
And that's just off the top of my head. There's probably another half dozen or so cars vying for your attention. Go some serious research into this.
Are you interested in advice for which car to buy or how to go about buying it?
I bought my car 3.5 years ago from a place that imports cars and at the time saved me about 25% off the brand new price from a dealer, however prices have come down a lot since.
Are you working? Are you paying upfront or monthly?
How old are you? Some Manurfacturers offer 1 or even 2 years free insurance, which if you're young could be worth over £1,000 to you.
The more you tell us - the more we can help answer your question.
i don't know how old you are, but if you're under 25, and especially under 21, your premiums will be through the roof if you have a valuable, powerful car.
i like peugeots, personally. the 106 and 206 are a nice size, and won't be too expensive to buy, insure or run. they also seem reliable, from the people i know with one.
it's all very well wanting a 'cool' car, but if it costs you £3000 a year to insure and breaks down every other week, you'll soon wish you had a shitheap like mine.
my 106 is 12 this year, and it still starts every time.
mind u i guess 206's r quite good too, that was my third choice after corsa's
Corsa's are godawful. 206s are very nifty cars, and Saxos are not out of date and replaced by the C2s. Anyway, Saxos have a horrible stigma attached to them about boi racers and all that shit, defintely a car to avoid unless you like lookign like a prat.
If you buy an old banger (£500 or less) then you could have some fun and paint it any damn colour you like!!! And not care about it, or if you have a small prang, etc. You can get paints that you can put on with a brush (designed not to leave too many brush marks and runs), but you will have to research that.
Mr_Wobble
Go looking around car dealerships; second hand ones, new ones..whatever. You're the only one that can decide what car you want. You could look on www.autotrader.co.uk where you can search for new/used cars. That might give you a few ideas.
Puntos are good cars for new drivers, cheap and good on fuel,
a cars a car, it gets you from A to B :rolleyes: i wouldnt care as long as i had a car
and for the record i have a VW golf
Ned-mobile
ho ho!! get in brian you can go in the spar n get us some MD 20/20
Well, yes and no. I car - its age, its looks, its colour, its brand, make and model all tell others about yourself, to some extent or another. I'm sure you would care if you had a Merc or BMW, something that showed off your financial success. Or the fact you don't care will almost certainly come across in the type of car you choose.
But more than that, a good car will run for a very long time, it'll be easy to take care of, cheap to run, and hold its value so that when you want to sell it on, it wont be to a scrap yard. So even if a car only gets you from A to B, you should always be careful about how long a car is going to do that for you.
:yes:
i couldn't care less what my car looks like. you can probably tell that by looking (it's dull grey, 12 years old, and needs more than a slight clean).
but the reasons i like my car are that it was cheap to buy, it's cheap to run, it's easy to fix when things go wrong (popular model = easily available parts) my insurance is pretty cheap, it's immobilised so that no fucker can steal it, it starts every time, etc, etc....
it's about more than just getting you from a to b. it's about lots of factors. but i don't think the way it looks is the most important of those factors.
i like the peugeot 206 aswell mind you, that would have probably been my second choice!
i've got one of them too
very nice to drive and you can get them for about £7k brand new.
They come in a nice kind of metallicy turquoise too.
Boy racers?;)
Ive got a saxo, there ok, cheap on petrol ect but they look horrid apart from the VTS/VTR styles. Corsa's are nice n cheap, pug's are nice small cars. You want a 1 litre, 1.1 ect, its cheaper on insurance ect...
Big on cars in these parts, are we?
I no, Citroen's are crap, ive had no end of trouble wiv me handbreak and radiator.
most stolen car in our area, apparently.
also, don't buy a car with a 1 litre engine. unless you like it struggling to do 40 up a hill.
Balck VW Golf, kit it up, do some justifications, soon be sorted!;)