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**SoylentGreen** · 22-10-07, 11:23

Heh. If it's going to be a real 'classic' learn how to set the points!

However - I recommend the 'big car theory'. Example: bloke buys £30k Volvo S70 2.4 SE auto with extras. Has all his servicing done at the main dealer, then sells it to me seven years later for less than 10% of the value. Mercs and BMWs are out unless you can stomach expensive cars with vast mileages. Granted they can do 'em - but you're looking at a higher risk of expensive, low-maintenance parts being replaced if it's been to the moon and back. Think Saab 9-5. Think don't-look-at-the-front Ford Scorpio. Even an Audi A8.

The principle is, get summit that a certain type of bloke (who leaves all his servicing to the main dealer!) would be buying new. But because when he wants another, it's another new one - then it becomes a car that people regard as a bit of a gas-guzzling dino. Then the people who can afford it second-hand, don't like the look of the running costs. With a little luck you'll be paying more at the pumps but you'll never see a vast maintenance bill.

I even get a genuine 30 mpg out of mine - cos I try to keep it till the weather is so truly awful it forces me off my motorbike

**whitemouse** · 22-10-07, 13:40

Ran a Ford Consul Estate when based in Ariel (as was - later known as Daedalus) for about six months or so.

Wasn't too juicy that I recall - but then fuel wasn't too pricy in those days, and managed a very good turn of speed up the A3 at weekends, a front bench seat (good for cuddle or two with a jenny or two

), column gears (never got in the way of the cuddle), great for running about 8 mates (lots more if they crammed in the back behind the rear bench seat) to the 'Bun Penny' to wind up the Wafus, or other watering holes..