Comments | imc: Bored of cars yet?

imc

Bored of cars yet?

Jan 09, 2011 21:52

I've been in Lancashire for the last week, seeing in the new year with my parents and a brother, and staying until a cousin from the US came for a visit, and other brother with his wife and child appeared also ( Read more... )

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emmzzi January 10 2011, 09:36:03 UTC

check the AA and RAC reviews also.

for real life as opposed to manaufacturers MPG stats look here

http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/ (if like me you are pre-decimal volumes, you will need to convert back to gallons and miles)

juggzy January 10 2011, 18:17:29 UTC

I was thinking about this on the bus this morning - see, everyone working full time for you!

OK, there's one level where you can sort of jokingly say that the car you need will come to you. On a more rational level, it's actually very common for people to do the research you have done, isolate the crite ria that they think are the most important to them, canvas opinion, narrow the target down to a few options, and then go for another car entirely that 'just turns up'.

What's actually going on here is this, I think: By doing the research and thinking about it a lot, you're probably the expert now, among your group of friends, on the criteria that you think you should judge by, and on the cars that fit that criteria (This expertise will disappear in a few months apart from a few broad brush strokes of opinion, but you'll always know how to recreate it next time you need to think about a car). And so, you have made sensible choices by the criteria that you have conciously chosen to honour, and you've internalised those criteria so ( ... )

buzzy_bee January 10 2011, 23:02:37 UTC

FWIW, Hyundai are Korean, but they do have a good reputation compared to, for example, Daewoo. I'm probably biased against them though, both my admin assistant and my former in-laws have Daewoos.

imc January 11 2011, 16:49:54 UTC

You didn't have to work full time, you could just say "yes, buy it!". :-)

But I appreciate your thoughts, and I think you make a lot of sense. The Hyundai is VfM because you're not paying for the badge on the front, but by the same token there don't seem to be many people around who can say "oh yes, I've had one, they're really reliable cars." Though, as it happens, my next door neighbour has a Hyundai i10 (but I've never asked her if she likes it).

Apparently this year's model beats the tax band, but I can't afford a new one. On the other hand, logic says that whatever the difference is (currently £60) plus the theoretical saving on fuel (currently about £12 per 1000 miles) will take a very long time to compensate for the 1.5K discount I'm getting by buying this one as opposed to a diesel Corsa or the megabucks I save by not buying a new one.