High Price and Low Choice - Car buyers choose USED instead of NEW
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- A classic Geoff video! Let's talk about people not wanting to buy NEW CARS and instead sticking with their OLD CARS or going shopping in the used market.
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10. A general chat about cars… 10 I want back, 5 I really don’t
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Instead of spending 30K+ on a new EV, you could take your existing car, replace all the consumables, replace the suspension and bushes and exhaust, replace all the relays and bulbs and then have a valeter refresh the paintwork and get all those stone chips sorted out and still have plenty of money left over for tax fuel and insurance. It would also last longer and be more reliabe.
Done it with my Hyundai S111 2ltr coupe, respray, rust done, new shocks and discs plus other sundries and a new hi-fi all for around £10K. Reliable, cheap to insure and fuel, nice to drive and looks cool, what more do you want?
I can see this becoming more and more a trend with older cars.
..or you could buy, if you must buy new, a new EV for less than £30k!
Just saying.😂
@@DwaynePipes ummm.... nah🤣
I bought a Citreon ZX off a mate paid £200 ran it for 3years scrapped it got £180 people use to tell me to take advantage of the scrapage scheme the manufacturers and the government where offering at the time £1000 each it still left say £5000 short on buying a basic new car. If I had done on buying on finance I told them it would be like buying my car each month
@@LaZoucheCustomshop
All very good but "looks cool" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 give your head a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacccckkking wobble.
So privates who bought EV thinking it’ll save them money on fuel yet the massive depreciation on their EV would wipe out any savings in owning an electric car over ICE.
And the insurance? A hybrid Ford is astronomical in the Midlands.
Who actually buys an expensive, over the top priced EV ? Oh yes, the halfwit known as the Crapmaster, and on finance at that.
Good for the clicks though from halfwits known as subscribers.
And the cost of charging rocketing as well.
@@garyquartley1084Nope, it's coming down and there are great incentives for big discounts with Tesla, Gridserve, Ionity etc for those who are doing the mileage. When I visit my daughter in Huntingdon, I have access to a Pod point slow charger (7Kwh) in a car park that is a 2 minute walk away for 29p per kWh with no parking restrictions or fees.
Ideal for a top up over a few hours. FYI - 3 hours would give me a range of 100 miles for £6, while we are visiting.
Tesla in France gave me 200 miles range in 20 minutes for £12 while we went for a butty.
We drove to T5 at Heathrow on a full home charge, (200 miles) for £3.50p then drove to a Tesla supercharger in the car park of a nearby hotel.
In the 25 minutes we were there, we watched the football in the bar, then drove off and the next top up was in Aberystwyth the following day. We covered about 700 miles over a long weekend at a cost of a out £70, home to home and only charged when we were having breaks.
Don't believe all the crap that non EV drivers tell you.
Yes I sold my EV and went back to petrol before I lost everything including my sanity LOL
Yesterday I bought a diesel 13 plate Toyota RAV4 love it ❤
Would NEVER NEVER buy an electric one
Im on my 4th mk2 rav4, this one is 54 plate, but my 5th gear has gone. So a video on recommendations for good cars in specific price brackets would be great. My budget is 2500 tops.
Until diesel cars are banned or taxed to death. Its coming....soon. EV cars don't make sense as they ae too expensive and battery costs are 1/2 cost of the car. Until these issues are sorted people will stay away unless leasing.
@@rosehippyguy3402 Can't you just drive it with the other four?
@@NeilBarratt I have been doing. But it's restrictive. 50mph is not my way. I like to get about, which means the M1 a lot. Nobody wants to touch it, but I didn't give up. There's a place on the other side of Nottingham that may be able to get me sorted. 🤞
My next car 😊
Got me a Volvo S60 D2, 2012 dRive. 118000 miles on the clock, immaculate, drives amazing, £35 a year road tax, £70 gets me 800 miles in the tank. I will never, ever buy an priced battery-powered fire hazard!!
35 a year tax but not ulez. crazy eh.
@@teatimetel174 truly doesn't make sense!
@@Frazman72 meant to be for emmisions
I recently bought an 18' s60 T4. More in tax than your car but for a 2L turbo petrol, its brilliant on fuel and goes like fck! Need to remind myself to behave when I'm driving it 😂
Ford are screwed! They screwed themselves with wet belts and crappy powershift gearboxes, so even the secondhand market isn't good. Then they F'd up Mustang and Capri.
And V6 crankshafts that snap..
Is someone paying them to go bust?
I am lucky to own 3 motors, a ULEZ compliant 2003 Fiesta 1.4 Zetec that I have owned for 17 years used for everything domestic, a 2007 Mercedes 3.2 CDI, owned for 12 years as family transport and a 1999 Mercedes SL320 owned for 8 years for Summer breaks and going to the pub on Sundays for a lemonade and am totally happy with them all. The garbage people drive today and what they pay for it is absolutely crazy!
I have the same philosophy. I too run three cars, A 2006 Merc c200 diesel estate, A 1999 E46 BMW 328i saloon and a 1994 BMW E36 Coupe for shows. All great cars with less than 80k on each vehicle. Also, they stand out from the dross that's offered these days. Cheers!
@@markbennett2170 I admire your good taste and style as well as common sense!
£1500 Taycan, that'll go 4 miles on a full charge.
But it will impress people as a bit of garden furniture.
Maybe they should make parts as we will keep all our cars. My car will be 60 years old next year and I love it.
Sounds interesting! What is it?
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@@markbennett2170 1965 Chrysler Valiant AP6 made in Australia 🇦🇺
In 14 years the price of new cars has more than doubled. Raw materials houses and wages have barely risen. Profit margins must be huge
and to think illegal migrents can get to uk be given £60.000 for a car and turn up as dss to pick up thousands in benefits and we will be paying for it... we need to stop forking out on things that give government billions in tax then they cant give migrents all our cash they will be broke.
Perhaps R & D
emission standards and safety regulations probably eat away the profit
I am with you Geoff, no way do i want a fire hazard parked near my house.
I want a car that takes minutes to fill up, is reliable and can be repaired
by myself or a local garage.
Avoid these modern electronic everything cars, they will go wrong.
We had better start buying more Volvo estates whilst they remain affordable.
I owned an EV and we now have a hybrid because of work. They are not fire hazards so stop talking crap. Petrol cars catch fire more often and we have two of them on the drive as well. KIA are stopping the support for some 7 year old cars so we will all be forced into modern ice cars full of electronics.
There is a plan that we know nothing about yet😢
I have to admit, the thought of a decent used RR Wraith is more appealing than the cost of buying a new one.
Great way to get people out of cars - make them extremely difficult to want in the first place.
Out of 7 other cars I've owned ranging from 15 years old to 35 years old, the brand new smart I made the mistake of PCPing in 2020 was the first one ever that fell apart after just 3 years and 40,000 miles The door handle came off, the sun visor broke, the centre console armrest is rapidly coming apart, the frontal radar broke, the seat squeaks... and I had a small 5mph crash that's going to cost apparently £1400 to fix. Never buying new again ever.
Yeah, MacMaster just did a vid on the price of his Porsche Taycan and it is basically worth about as much as bag of crisps now. Someone else in the comments has taken a 57k hit on their electric BMW in one year. Give me the 1500 quid Volvo any day of the week.
There is something virtuous and environmentally woke about losing £57k on an EV in a year. Think how many polar bears won't be beaching themselves in the rainforests due to taking this financial hit for the planet. (I'm a bit confused about environmentalism but I know it's a good thing)
£57k? Wow. For me that's a campervan, cars, holidays and all the associated costs for a couple of decades.
But that £57 isn't just 'lost', that's how much energy (and hence pollution) went into building that EV.
The one who claimed the hit on the BMW hadn't bought it but leased it.
Unlike the Mansfield Grifter who grifted himself. Great.
@@user-zc1os5eu6q Some things are far less trouble when rented! Boats, planes, women and EVs...
@@G-ra-ha-m not necessaroly in that order... 🤣
I love my 2005 petrol Honda CR-V. No plans to change it, but if I had to, I couldn't spend more than £4,000.
My 2006 CRV has 200,000 on her and runs without issue, great cars.
I only drive fully depreciated cars...like when its under $2000. But then it's also got to be a Japanese diesel.
I agree has to be a Japanese diesel!
With metal pipes and pumps?
Another good thing about buying privately used, is that you don't have to wrestle with a salesman, over not wanting endless financial/insurance/protective products.
The manufacturers killed any desire I had for buying new, they really did not care about the average person so I really do not care about their failures
They all seem to be maintenance nightmare now.
If they could build the same cars they did in 1999, most would have queues at the door.
Loads of recalls and common faults. VW cars known to have thousands of common faults. Ford not much better along with most European cars. KIA a nightmare to deal with if you claim on the warranty. Our car has taken 8 months and its still not fixed. Hybrid Sportage's killing themselves daily.
Rather like politicians.
@@RB-lt8kt I know several people who have Kia Picantos of varying ages. They all seem to be completely trouble free.
@@NeilBarratt The Picanto is a great car, yes.
I’ve got a 25 year old hatchback in A1 condition with 10k miles on it in storage ready for use when I run out of decent second hand reliables of which I’ve presently got two, one is 25yr old and the other 20 yrs which I repair with second hand’s parts when I can, remember when recycling was the gold standard in environmental credentials. And two of my cars are currently ULEZ compliant 😂 How can mining toxic materials building new factories for new cars that don’t last long and importing gas by diesel tankers to run power stations be saving the planet, it’s complete madness.
I am unlikely to buy a ev vehicle any time soon ,but the biggest concern for car buyers is intelligent speed limiters ,bit like smart motorways, as a trucker I've lived with electronic speed limiters for years. l bought a new focus in 2018 its done 10k but I drive around in 2011 v70 with 250k on the clock, it cost £3000 ,
Until 2020 the car market was totally saturated. There's plenty of cars from 2018-2019 or prior, which will still be totally fine and perfect to use for family and business purposes
Mobile phones are next, older phones reign supreme
For sure. I have always used an old school samsung. I hate the distractions. I also have a Samsung S20 Android but leave at home, never take it out.
they're out already. they're shutting off 3g network so old phones won't get a signal at all. and because penetration of 5g is crap, neither your new smarphone won't get a signal either.
Crowdstrike , owned by Blackrock Vanguard and Chase Morgan bank mainly , will wait until all phones are 5G and then turn off the internet globally . The recent outage was just a test run . When it happens there will be panic and chaos globally , as it will be off for weeks, not just about 12 hrs .
@@AndrewJennings-uk5vo 5G 😂what's that!
@@AndrewJennings-uk5vo I was working at a steam railway using authenic techiniques to restore them, so it didn't effect me in the slightest. In that world, electricity hasn't been invented yet! Let alone charging your car with it
2005 Toyota corolla!!!!!!! you won;t have any street creed but your pocket won't be empty
Never paid more than £3k for a car. However had plenty of £12k bikes.
I've had nearly 50 bikes but I never paid more than £1500 ( but I was in the trade ) ha ha ha 😂
Scary to think this that can apply to mountain bikes as well as motorbikes! Every rider I know rides a bike worth more than the crappy van they use to take it around!
Priorities mate , sweet 👍
Great video Geoff let’s hope that Ford haven’t thrown away the tooling for the fiesta for when they bring it back and the should spend the money on improving their petrol engines which would make more sense 👍
When companies look inwards toward the " lobby groups" they drastically miss the demand from customers! Supply the demand not the wishes of politicians who have never made money from production in their life!! Hehe
I'm starting to think that the whole EV move isn't to sell more EVs, but to incentivise us all into looking after our old cars, a bit like the movie Highlander 2, which ironically was the only part of that movie that was plausible.
....and yes, do a budget friendly car review. 3k, 5k and 10k. That would be a very watchable and informative video Geoff.
No its just a way for countries to hit Net Zero rather than stopping other sources of emissions. No conspiracy here.
The problem with cars seems to be no matter how well you keep it providing it's not a basket case and no matter how much money has been thrown at it ,when you're trading it in the salesmen look at their magic book and just work off that. I bought a Jaguar a few years ago and the previous owner had spent just short of £10000 in maintenance receipts, but it wasn't worth anymore when I sold it.
Geoff check out JD Powers car reliabilty surveys over the last 20 years. I could only find the US figures but the number of faults per 100 cars seems to have gone from a low of 113 to around 190 today. Cars are worse now than they were two deades ago. I am vindicated in thinking modern cars are crap.
Built by robots.
@@lat1419 Or men called Bob, Rob or Berty.
Designed to last the warranty and no longer!
Electronics are the biggest and most expensive issues. Modern cars, ICE or EV are packed full of electronics and are just plain unreliable.
Hiya Geoff, my budget is £1500-£2000 and the same for my youngest who is just learning to drive. I have an '09 1.6 astra sxi and am wanting her to last forever, though West Lancs roads must be near the top of the list for being unsafe as well as causing problems to our cars. Was thinking of buying a 2nd car as a stand by. How will it go for parts in the future on older cars? My oldest two children own a '59 plate 1.1 fiesta and an 11plate 1.1 polo. Thank you Geoff🥰
Motability are screwing themselves pushing EVs! Just wait till the leases are up on EVs and that will be them bankrupt.
How are Motability exactly pushing EVs?
No, they'll just get lots more taxpayers money from govt.
Bring back the days when you could drive a minter for £500 sorely missed. 😂
...i doubt you could shag a munter for that these days.
Look around, they're still out there. I've just paid £500 for a two-owner, 50,000 mile, full service history, twenty-two year old Hyundai. It's not fashionable, in fact it's decidedly uncool, but it was £500, and will go for ever if serviced regularly.
Eyup Geoff, just got a £500 Toyota avensis estate, it ticks every box, and can also carry them
my brother -in law has for years like me had a new car every 3 years on the scheme with Peugeot he has had the 5008 petrol every time , just been to find out about renewing next year and the 5008 all electric will cost £600 a month compared to £200 over the last 3 years
I have my 9 year old AUDI S3 from new, low mileage, no intention of changing or parting with it. Wife had a 14 year old Ford Fiesta (from new) which had always been serviced with the main dealer it was purchased from but in the last service (according to a chap from the AA) Ford mis mounted the drive shaft when replacing the starter motor and the dealers have literally sabotaged her car so we had hoped to get a few more years (great little car) but she has now switched to an 2021 AUDI A3 1.8.....we would have bought new however literally all the petrol engines new now are 1 litre 3 pot engines so there was no logical reason to spend more money on silly. Similarly our daughter has just gotten her first car which (against my wishes) is a 2019 Audi A1 Sportback S line Competition which is also a 2 litre as new A1's are also 1 litre 3 pots. The latter two cars have been purchased from 5 year bank loans. All my cars have been long term "owned" vehicles.....not my fault if other people cannot understand "Total Cost Of Ownership" and think they're getting a better deal leasing.
So yes.......we haven't bought electric for a variety of issues.......and yes......we haven't bought brand new because the engine options weren't there (even when looking at other brands) AND.....I must add.........don't think you can go and buy a used car at the main AUDI dealer if you're paying cash.......no no no.........we had a double experience with my wife where we wanted to put a deposit down with a main dealer for a used AUDI and in both circumstances the minute they knew we were cash buyers "oh.....I'm terribly sorry but "that" car is already sold" yet in both cases the cars were still marketed online for another week or two after our enquiry. Beware.....a lot of main dealer ads seem to be a carrot to get your details so that they can sell you the car they want to sell you.
I drove a 2021 Audi A1 S Line for work last week and I was not a fan at all. Not only do I find the concept of A1s to be extremely poncy, but it didn’t even have a sat nav, yet a 2013 Renault Clio I drove the week before did have one and warned me of all the speed cameras, even though it was only an Expression Plus.
@@alfienaylor1587 Daughters A1 has SatNav but I'm laughing because it is a fast car but she has to have the BlackBox insurance so what's the point? Never been a fan of any of the French brands, probably a bias from many years that I lived in Africa where getting parts was difficult for owners of French cars at that time.
@3:39 They "enjoy" having a huge variety of slop to their disposal but they still don't want to eat slop. 😂
@5:21 Easy, a 2001 Lexus RX300 with LPG conversion. It is a non interference engine that lasts pretty much forever.
I used to buy approx 1 good quilty car a year and not even service it. My budget used to be £500, in about 2019 I had to push my budget to £1k in 2022 I moved my budget to £1.5k and ended up buying a 3k car.... end of 2022 I left the UK, and hope I'll never need to come back .....; praying for you all! Currently living in the Amazon rainforest, but extreme, YES but life is good out here
And now we have Savile's mate Starmer, in charge of the corporation.
Mercedes ML320 petrol, 1999, £1,100.. ❤ 👍
I spent about 600 Euro on a 23 year old Mondeo and another 600 to repair and repaint it. Simple naturally aspirated petrol engine and working AC is all I need, Will drive it till I can't anymore.
The governor and I and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.---Heels up Harris! The United States of America at its finest.
I was thinking the same thing. The significance of the passage of time becomes more significant with the passage of time. I'm on Cameler's wavelength.
@@wayland7150 This is what the libs have in store for the United States of America this cacklin' twat.
Manufacturers of cars and everything really ( mainly the big major brands ) have put up prices every year alone because of the actual brand value not inflation costs, this has then made other manufacturers fillow suit and then they use inflation as an excuse and people have still payed it thats the problem ( my dad bought a brand new top spec m3 in 2008 for £58,000 all in every option now the equivalent new model is £100k thats not inflation thats pricing them at that because they can ) if its a normal car your after NEVER by new no matter what the depreciation is scary ( bought a new polo for my wife in 2015 £18k and 2 years later the market value privately was £9k because Volkswagen was offering new special offers on new cars which made the used models massively dip and its the same today ) and as for EV's no thank you there even more then a minefield to navigate wouldnt know where to start
as I said in a previous video I see more fiestas and focus on the road than pumas or kugas good luck to Ford they only sell hybrids here and I need a SUV for dirt roads but the Kuga like almost all hybrid engines are bad super slow and way too polluting for their performance, you gain like 15% less pollution for half the power something doesn't add up, full petrol engines still sold today also have this weird inverted progression as they seem to pollute more than the same engine 5-7 years ago for reduced performance
We’ll be like Havana in 30 years. Except it’ll be ancient Fiestas rather than Buicks 😂😂😂
We bought a 2018 Toyota avensis this year, last off the production line, and gave BIL the old one.
I love old cars because they were designed with beauty to appeal to the eye, then we had cars designed according to the wind tunnel and aerodynamics so they lost some beauty, now we have cars designed to all look like the same lump of dog 5H17 with no beauty but they do go like 5H17????, 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Best car I've ever had is a 2007 1.8 Honda Civic, am buying another one soon as the one I have is hitting 120k on the clock.
As for a 2nd hand electric cars I have one question, would you buy a 2nd hand mobile phone that's 4 years old? 😏
Yeah, I've bough old mobiles phones but they come with a new battery. The smart phones you can't replace the battery so they're junk.
@@wayland7150 I should have been clearer I mean a mobile phone without a battery change in the past 4yrs. New-ish 2nd hand phones are worth nothing unless you change the battery, but changing the battery costs more than the phone is worth 2nd hand. It's madness, save the planet my arse. 😒
Yes do a buyers Geoff! I’ve just bought a 15 year old Astra 1.8 automatic, starts first time, shifts great and only cost me £1400, only problem being the government aren’t happy with is buying stuff like this, as with the £405 per year tax, but otherwise I’m happy
Please do a buyers guide, especially for people like me looking for automatic vehicles
Thanks
Just retired and both got our bus passes. Three bus routes stop right outside our gate. When our 2018 Yaris hybrid falls apart or dies it won't get replaced. Only done 3k miles between the last 2 MOTs. Can easily live without a car and the expenses that keep going up. Driving is no longer the fun activity it used to be.
Cars are a liabilty.
You are lucky. Some of us need a car to travel to the bus stop.🤣🤣
Buses not a poosibility for many of us not living in towns or cities, but wish they were.
I love driving, I drive thousands of miles for pleasure. If I got in a bus I would have to drive it.
@@jondonnelly4831 "Driving for pleasure", is not something one hears too often today. Remember those triangular window stickers informing every other driver you have "Visited Babbacombe"? Now we "visit" the obligatory temporary traffic lights on every second road. Pleasure? Methinks not.
I am happy in my £1400 mgf & haven't ford stopped production of profitable & guaranteed selling cars before ( THE ORIGINAL CAPRI)
Currently dailying my MGF, it's a quirky car
Until petrol/gasoline prices go down (pray for Trump to beat the rigging and Drill!), everything's price will remain, due to transporting every part costing 60% more. Buy used till then.
"They" won't let him win and drill. We all remember 2020.
Drill baby drill... well, if they don't start WWIII or have the "faaaar rigght" pow-pow Camel Harris to incite the failed uprising when they missed trump.
They deleted my reply saying "dri1l baby dri1l"
Mine was deleted to. I said H@rr1s would be fakely taken down by someone on the "fahr roight". Typos intentional. They want prices high.
I give up my last post went poof even after posting successfully at first, means this: Geoff you doing this?
I paid 7K in May 18 for my 2010 2.4 Accord tourer . Not the cheapest to run, but aside from a couple of batteries, faultless . Will keep forever.
I had a 2005 2.4 petrol Accord Tourer Auto for a couple of years. Loved it.. only did 31 mpg on average but amazingly comfortable capable etc. only sold it as hit a massive kerbstone in London (!) and damaged too much for me to handle
my v70 d5 was £750 in 2020, just bought for misses 2012 model xc90 d5 for £2k.
He'll. I run a SAAB 93,on a 57sun has 195000 on the clock 48 around the doors and 58 on the motorway. Stick ya electric were the sun don't shine 😅
Most cars these days cost more than £40,000 and so the additional VED of £410 has to be paid from years 2 - 6 (years of renewals, not first VED on registration). In addition, any car first registered before 1st April 2017 has a much better VED regime (no £40,000 stuff). Thus, any car more than 6 years old, or first registered before 1st April 2017 has vastly lower VED costs. At the lower end of the market, this is important.
Excellent idea Geoff, a buyers guide in various bands, my ideal car is an suv, easier for access & egress,all wheel drive, live in the Staffordshire Moorlands, I’ll be retiring shortly so we’ll be going to 1 car. The mileage will be less, so petrol or diesel? I currently have a MB GLC 2*1 diesel but it’s proving a bit low, I’m a big guy with bad knees, budget up to £40k used, don’t do new.
Noone wants to buy EV shit boxes. Neither do I!
Heffalumps wandering around the living room time Geoff. As in most aspects of the retail market, we are presented with a product what they wish to sell, not what we want to buy, and car manufacturers are the most culpable in this "arrogant" approach to sales. The tell us we need "electric windows" when a handle is foolproof, and then charge 500 quid to replace the actuator when it packs up. Then there is the sensor which leads to an MoT failure, resulting taking half the vehicle to bits to replace. And don't get me started on cambelts.
The best vehicle I ever had was a series one land rover. Okay it drank petrol, but providing the owner had a box of spanners and a welder, they were indestructible.
Now all present day land rovers are good for is being nicked for the "export" market. Your £1,500 850 will soon be costing twice that once the penny drops and I just wonder what is a viable alternative? Japanese engines last forever yet rot away underneath. Decent well maintained german cars are expensive to buy and maintain. So it will be interesting to see what your panel comes up with. Incidentally the only vehicle that cost me more than 2 grand is my discovery 2, (£2,500), and that is only because it suited my needs. (No, it was NOT to piss the eco nutters off!!!).🤣🤣
To be fair it's not the makers, it's the CEOs who attend Davos, and come back brainwashed.
Add in the stupid regulations and you get this.
@@G-ra-ha-m Are they not one of the same, in the respect that the ceo is the bloke, or possibly "not a bloke", who dictates to the design team what he wants to take to market? Or am I over simplifying the matter?
The recent Ford car line up and hate to say most other manufacturers car line ups aren't the best. I would rather invest in a older car than buy a overpriced EV or SUV
Chocolate engines are a new problem too.
By axing the "most popular" cars will force people to by the "unpopular" ones!
Clearly they know this. Why do they want us to buy these ugly cars? I was looking at cars today and most seem to be either small hatchbacks or ugly SUV types. There are still some desirable cars like BMW saloons and Jaguar saloons. These seem to be owned by people who love cars judging by the fact they give them some beans when they drive. Everyone else just ambles about getting in the way in their bloated ugly SUVs (Range Rover excluded from that).
Time to get the old 205 XRAD out again !! I can hear the XU can you ?
I worked in the motor trade for decades. New vehicles have always taken a price hit the minute they leave the showroom. I have never purchased a new car. Two main reasons. To find out if the particular model is any good & let someone else take the first usually massive depreciation.
What's you thoughts on the Volvo 960? I loved the one I had. Probably rare as now.
700/900 series was the best car Volvo ever made imo.
I'd love an old Volvo but tax and then ulez makes perfectly good cars unaffordable!
Thank you Geoff, entertaining GBC lunch time video! How about, since you asked for input, making the next car video with your brothers? Perhaps go out onto the forecourts (visit the almost 100 year old Ford dealership, for instance?) Make it a field trip series with your brothers! (if they want to be on camera of course) Sure is relatable, I think. Secondly, how about finding out a car for not only say 1K pounds but also, by make. So, what is the best German car for a thousand pound. What is the best Japanse car brand and model to get for said amount. Think the best saloon for the
travelling rep (Ford Mondeo, SAAB 9-3) or the best stationwagon (Nissan Primera, Volkswagen Passat Variant or Volvo V40 etc.) for a family of four with pets and luggage. Here some off-the-cuff suggestions for you to ponder, Sir.
Hope this helps & thank you 👍👍
I just opted for a 17 plate Octavia estate. 40k on the clock for £12k. Very happy
I hope to be in the market for a new-to-me old Fiat Panda soon-ish, when we get round to parting with our beloved old pet car, a Porsche 924s. I don't like to spend more than three grand on a car, many of my favourites were less than that but I appreciate times have changed... Unless you have any better ideas for me Geoff?! My non-negotiables are as follows: 1. Small Car (lots of narrow country lanes round here plus I'm a girl and like to be able to park easily) 2. Manual gears and the bare minimum of unnecessary computery nonsense (wind-up windows would be fine by me) 3. CD player and a radio that just works easily, with my fave channels preset (I have zero desire to connect my phone to my car) 4. I am rather partial to a foot rest for my arthritic left foot 5. Kinda got my heart set on my next car being orange, or yellow, or a bright green... It must be a colour 😆 Oh, and I nearly forgot, as much as I adore diesels, my short commute calls for a petrol engine 🥰x
My Fiat Panda Dynamic 2012 costs £35 a year to tax. Is fun to drive, can carry 4 people in comfort. Great for tall people. The stereo is really good, big speakers and loads of sound, can play MP3 if your burn the files to CD-ROM. Being a hatch back you can carry furniture too.
Definitely do more recommendations & consumer advice on buying used cars, Geoff! You obviously have a vast knowledge on the subject & your UA-cam channel is called “Geoff Buys Cars” after all (it does exactly what it says on the tin!). Incidentally, my 2009 Ford Mondeo Titanium 1.8 Diesel Estate that I have driven from new (my ex company car!) has done 123,000 miles & I’d never, ever sell it! Marvellous!! 👍
I have a 5 year old Astra and was thinking of changing a few weeks ago. Went to look at the new Astra with a petrol engine and was shocked at how much prices had gone up since i brought my Astra new. If i want an Astra with near enough the same specs the price has doubled in 5 years.. decided to keep my Astra
Just got fully comp insurance, taxed and MOT'd my diesel Ibiza for £208, so bang on £4 a week I call the "standing charge"
And from here on it's costing me 10p a mile in diesel
And nothing to pay for service station coffee or cakes, and I won't get obese on mcd's while waiting to top up a battery.
Job done
I know John Newey and his brother Nick at Summit Garage. I've bought two MG TFs from them. I still have one of them. It's a great family run business. I know that the EV market has tanked which is why they have decided to 'pull the plug' on selling electrical vehicles.
My 2012 Honda jazz is going strong- I want a civic estate but prices are silly so I will continue in my jazz , I’m happy it’s bomb proof .
I also have a Fiat panda 4x4 in the garage it’s my back up VAPE car it is simple but it’s a car that suits where I live ………Kernow, some local car dealers have folded shame but it’s the way like pubs use em or lose em
No way I will be seen driving a 30 years old Volvo by my neighbors. I´ll stick with my 99 S80 2.9 😄😄(the only issue in the last 4 years is the heater core and ULEZ, car complies with EURO4 emissions but was only certified to EURO2 and no one is interested in sorting that)
Geoff the "Decline" is that people are being coerced into PCP lease contracts, "you will own nothing, and be happy" I recently brought a Renault Captur (older model) for my wife, the Main Dealer wanted to talk Personal Contract Hire, I.E it is X per month, dealer pays deposit, then you trade in after 48 months, Or pay a balloon payment of 70% of the original sticker price. Then the kicker, Diesel Not available! so I Brought a late model second hand unit Diesel Auto, Cash.
Yeah, Rachael of Colchester Council Watch :D
So if all old cars are the purchase of choice, we have to agree to keep all the prices realistic and all old cars highly maintained , otherwise we will all be ripping each other off with extortionate pricing and who wants to buy a car who's service history is below par, it's the time now where we all have to take care of each other, or else we play into " there " hands and further the agenda, only by coming together will we win, but some are blind to the fact that we're losing, 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
They will probably do another cash for clunkers to get rid of the competition. If they pay silly money to you to scrap your car you'll probably do so.
"Their"!
Jaguar going full tilt fall on the sword of social justice subsidies, Ford following suit and only wanting to sell Transits with wet belt issues and SUV’s … but zi Germans are allegedly having a bit of a change of heart … Audi/Porsche and Fiat too. Is there a potential that these businesses are starting to realise that social justice ESG points don’t equal bank balance prizes?
I've never bought a new car. The most I've spent was £7500 trade price for a 2008 xj sovereign 2.7 with 70k on the clock and a fair amount of work to do. Once it was done it was a great car until someone t-boned it. Now I have a 2010 Jaguar XF S 3.0D twin turbo v6. It's fantastic. If you want to borrow it for a review Geoff, let me know.
My budget would be £5000 cash. Would like a petrol, manual cheap to run that will last me out. Perhaps not thatmany yers as I'm 83!
Some of us have similar car requirements to yourself, Geoff.
Last month my 20-year old Rover 75 Estate that I bought for £2000 between lockdowns 4 years ago finally gave up. Replaced it this month with a 28-year old Jaguar Sovereign for £3000. We originally had a budget of £4k on something interesting and cheap to own. Yes, the Jag is in the typical range that I usually own, that being 2.8 and above with no less than 6 cylinders and RWD a must.
Well Geoff. Those of us who have ignored the call for ev’s, should mean that the assets we are sitting on running ice vehicles should shortly be able to command our own premium.
I've never spent more than £5k on a car. But the cheapest was a Ford Escort back in the 1980's...... FREE! it cost me £87.00's worth of parts all the work I did myself and got a car on the road and all legal (Except for the rear wing that flapped a bit and I got pulled over for low flying) Me and my mates (Some called it the 'Mystery Machine' as they couldn't work out how it still ran) went everywhere in that car and it never let me down. The real and happy days of motoring.... BANGERNOMICS RULE!
Vw polo 9n is great (when it works) so I've got a fabia estate 1.2 whilst I fix it
Got a 1997 r129 paid 7500 for it it will never depreciate I hope had it over 4 years and had no problem with it all 90s cars are the best buy a low milage minter and you'll never regret it
I live in the US. Been here 23 years. Originally from Canada.
I own a GMC 3500 Denali Diesel - which I’m selling because it’s more truck than I need. It has a range of 500+ miles. Fills up in a few minutes.
I also own a ‘76 Corvette, which is in my shop needing me to finish installing new bits.
I bought a Chevy Bolt - I have a home charger hardwired so I can charge quickly (relative term) - I use it for commuting to work and back and puttering about town.
I am bored of it already.
Thinking of a 2014 ish Mercedes E350 sedan. Something with a soul.
The EV is fine for purpose I suppose, but I don’t feel comfortable driving it to the next large city (82 miles away) to go to Costco because I don’t want to spend an additional hour there charging my car. I did the trip once and had about 40 miles left (I added 12 miles by charging at a slow charger to experiment while there).
Nothing like having the peace of mind in my fuel vehicles of a 500 mile range, refill anywhere in less than 5 mins with no need to use an app.
How about a video on how to shop for a classic car? Where to look for one, what to look out for, etc. I'm sure that will help a lot of people.
Geoff - something just occurred to me regarding the sad demise of the Fiesta. The trouble for Ford is that a small, good, light, fun little car at sensible prices will deflect people from buying their EVs.
So, think about this as a stepping stone. Swap it for the Puma. Slightly bigger, higher, heavier, chunkier, less pretty, and a bit more exensive. Convince existing customer base to live with this instead. This moves the customer base slightly closer to what EVs look like.
Its a step by step approach. Once in the Puma they will be slightly more removed from wanting a vehicle that looks good, accepting its as pretty as a fridge. They will get used to being in a bigger heavier vehicle and spending more. Hence they will be in a closer mental mindset when the next round comes by and Ford tell them that the puma only comes in an EV format now.
Leasing is the best bet if you want to drive electric and want a new car every 2/3 years some good deals around
Yep, I wouldn't bother owning these things
No. They're crap
The only major problem with leasing a car, is the epidemic of number plate cloning. A leased car is not in your name, the V5 is with the leasing company. So, if your plate is cloned the fines and tickets etc will go to the leasing company, who will then pass them onto you at their leisure. You do not have the option to change the number plate to stop any more fines coming your way, whilst you sort out those you already have, so they will just keep coming. The lease company will not bust their nuts to help you.
There's a reason why they are called a, ' Fleece'. Do some homework.
@@cropduster8798 it's often cheaper to lease than buy a used car on a high interest loan with the risk of expensive repairs. Lease = no risk
Well, I work at a 2nd hand car dealership and plenty are being sold still. EV’s, well, a few sell but they are about as popular as a fart in a lift in the main.
Looked at a few EV's on ebay but first thing I look at is age. If it's four years old you have to assume a potential six year battery life, down to four years at resale two years later and that isn't going to help the sale. It's almost like buying a leasehold property on short lease.
Jeff I work for Ford motor company it’s madness that they are dropping the fiesta and focus, its because they are looking for more profit, more money is made on SUV’s and vans, trucks
Havent Ford got a pricey problem replacing wetbelt engines as well as a lot of Fiestas? catching fire
0:39 platts of Marlow I think still have the owners vintage car stored in the Showroom and he used to sell leaded petrol for years after the end , due to getting the vintage car share license for low lead fuel.
Leaded petrol is still available at Aerodromes
OK, here's the requirement.
Current: Have an EV company car, but not renewing it in October. Talked to you on X about it, a Hyundai Ioniq.
Looking for: I want a diesel, 40mpg+. I like estates or 4x4s, though would be nice to have something a little sporty.
Cars I've had I liked: Jeep Patriot, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Alfa 145, Dodge Charger, Renault Mégane Estate, and Chrysler Voyager. Had most of these pre kids. Towbar would be useful for bike rack.
So we bought our first new car in 2008 a VW Polo Match for 11K adjusted for inflation that is £17400 now. The Match wasn't a base model and the cheapest Polo now is around £22K or for a higher spec like we had nearer £23K. New cars full of tech crap we don't want and they have even removed the buttons unsurprisingly we cant afford new cars.
Geoff, yes to guidance on four price points.
Cheapies, up to £5k, £10k, £20k, £30k.
I parked a collection of my favourite cars in a field back at the millennium when mot failures could be got for a few pounds or sometimes even for free, some of them are pretty rough by now but they are simple enough to fix, I've already driven some of them and at some point I'll get some more of them going, I've had a COVID recovery battle that's taking years not months but I'll get welding again as soon as I can
I changed my car last September. No way was I going electric. I bought a six-yr-old 2l Subaru.
I'm 64 now, so it'll last until the end of my driving days.
I am reliant on public transport. I can drive. Convid removed my credit score so I can't obtain finance. If I was able to save enough for a used car or had that in the bank there's NO WAY I would buy a car to get me to work. All the decent paid jobs are unreachable for me by public transport. I'm confined to base and I'm certainly not going to spend 3 to 4 hours commuting just to earn the extra to buy a car that's going to be banned within a decade.
Pray for Tru|\/|p to win and drill. The first thing his opponent did when installed as POTUS was cancel pipelines, bam exploitation, and ban drilling. Now the UsA's demand for fuel imports is raising the price for everyone vs when they were energy independent.
You can dig yourself out of this hole. Plenty of good cars are £1000. Save £50 per week and you will have enough for a car before the end of the year.
@@wayland7150 thanks but I am LIVING off £70 pow
The price of a used car in my area is almost as much as a new car that no one has neglected or abused, so we bought ourselves a new ice Corolla that will last for many many years. It was cheap to buy and it's cheap to fuel, cheap to insure and as the world's best selling ice car, parts are plentiful and cheap and our transportation needs are taken care of for decades to come. I'm afraid the electric dream is going to have to wait.
2014 Vauxhall Astra diesel, 150k miles, owned since new.
Love it. Suspension starting to creak.
Tempted to buy new Octavia, diesel hatchback... Or maybe wait a year.
Just repair old one and do not allow the gevorment to destroy your life