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Am planning to buy new car. Currently have passat 1600, the road tax is high. Any suggestions for slightly smaller with less emissions and lower tax.
Interested in : Honda, Renault, Toyota or others
Any advice welcome Browtal
 
Hi
Tax on cars at the moment is a lot cheaper than what it use to be and its great.I had a o4 focus and the insurance was about €300 for the year and now I have a 09 focus and the insurance is only €104 a year its a 1.4 engine.Don't think its cost much more for a 1.6 engine.

If your going to look at buying a focus, Ford are bringing out a new modle of the focus in april, If you dont mind driving the latest model you can get a good deal on one because the ford dealers will be looking to get rid of there stock to make room for the new model.
 
Hard to look past new passat, tax band A, €104 tax,, approx 4.5l/100km.
As you mentioned you were looking for something smaller, peugeot 308, very efficient car, if i was going slightly bigger/higher i would look at skoda yeti.
 
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Hard to look past new passat, tax band A, €104 tax,, approx 4.5l/100km.
As you mentioned you were looking for something smaller, peugeot 308, very efficient car, if i was going slightly bigger/higher i would look at skoda yeti.
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Skoda Yeti got great reviews on top gear last night but don't know what it's like for fuel efficiency

Peugot 308 diesal is a great little car, very fuel efficient and easy to drive. However without knowing the distances you drive, if it is for work or family etc, it's hard to give better advice
 
Don't change your car, and use the money saved to put towards your French property?
 
The driving distances are very small, current car has 30,000 in 5 years. Thanks for advice. Browtal
 
Browtal, I was in Ford Dealer today and the Focus are flying out the door.....we are also looking to change car, so definitely think they are trying to make room for new stock as everything was very competitively priced AND it was the only car dealer that we were in all week that was BUSY!!!
We spotted a 2007 Ford Focus and its driving well, (it's for me doing the school run and the usual run arounds with a trip to Dublin now and then....)....I've googled them and they have good NCAP rating etc but looking for some "real people" advice or opinions...also hope to test drive a Kia Ceed tomorrow...opinions welcome please
 
You have to remember that the amount of road tax you will save on a car is insignificant when compared with the amount you are going to spend going up 5 years.

Irish people have a fixation on road tax.
A 1.6 engine is not a big engine. In most countries in the world 1.6 is small, in fact I regularly meet people who don't know what engine they have in their car as it simply isn't a consideration.

I have come across people who will be looking at 1.4 engined cars and will not look at 1.6 enginged cars as they are "too expensive to run", and yet they will be spending thousands on changing the car!

Saving 300-400/year in road tax is an insignificant saving compared to the approx 10-20,000 you will be spending to trade up.

If money is a motivating factor then your best bet is to not spend money changing the car at all.
 
Fraggle...husband and I came to same conclusion after car browsing all week.....can get 2007 focus for 8400 and tax is 445 pa...or 2008 focus for 10,950 with road tax 156 pa.....and very little difference in miles on clock maybe 20,000 miles....ergo we think 2007 may be for us...
 
6.3l with non-classic tax is most likely to be an AMG Merc.
 
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Just feel like a change,
reliability, performance- environmently aware, resale value, probably change 3 years, booth large enough for golf woods, very few long journeys. Have always had new company cars -but not anymore? Have had Honda's in the past liked them, also renaults.
Spend about €22,000 plus trade in.
What are the advantages of second hand apart from price. Many thanks Browtal.
 
Honda

I have a honda civic 1.8 i v-tec ses 4 door saloon its a 08 reg now the tax is 447pa but 20 euro does it for a week now i do alot of driving around town and as we all know thats when you burn most fuel look it up you will be impressed very like the accord . Have a nice time hunting !!
 
browtal said:
Just feel like a change,
reliability, performance- environmently aware, resale value, probably change 3 years, booth large enough for golf woods, very few long journeys. Have always had new company cars -but not anymore? Have had Honda's in the past liked them, also renaults.
Spend about €22,000 plus trade in.
What are the advantages of second hand apart from price. Many thanks Browtal.
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May I ask a question (feel free not to answer)?

In this thread:

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=147915

you enquire about defaulting on a mortgage yet you are looking to spend €22k on a car.

How do you reconcile the two?


Re. the car .... what's the trade in value of the Passat?
 
I had a Ford Focus saloon and it had no problem taking all my golf gear including a large golf glider trolley.

With what you have to spend plus trade in you could get a top of the range Focus . You could even fit your granny in the boot if she was doing caddy for you.:D
 
Hi Paddybloggit,
you have got the wrong picture. I have no recollection of thinking of defaulting on a mortgage - difficult since I don't posess a mortgage. Sometimes we ask for advice for other people??
The trade in value of 05 Passat is about €7500 I gather. Are you interested? Browtal
 
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browtal said:
Hi Paddybloggit,
you have got the wrong picture. I have no recollection of thinking of defaulting on a mortgage - difficult since I don't posess a mortgage. Have another look at aam.
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I did ... and you asked about defaulting on a mortgage here:

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=147915

"If I default on a mortgage in France, on a holiday property, am I still liable in Ireland for the balance still due.
Currently I have paid about €40,000. It was meant to be a holiday type property, an agency would let it for 10 years. This had not materialised and there is no return as the agency has left the property. Another agency did take it over and l had some lettings for part of the season but again they have left.
I am anxious to just get out of the deal and leave the property. How would I be fixed legally here, would the remaining debt follow me. The loan is with a French bank.
The challet is Parentis near Bearritz - anybody else in this situation. Anybody out there willing to take over this problem?
Browtal"


Your post didn't indicate that you were looking for advice for a third party. People can only work with the information given. My question was based on the fact that you said you were thinking of defaulting on a mortgage.

From that I was just curious about how somebody thinking of defaulting on their debts could head off and spend €22k buying a new car.
 
browtal said:
The trade in value of 05 Passat is about €7500 I gather.
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I was just trying to get a rough idea of what range you were looking at.

You're looking at a €29k car ... easier to see what's available at that range.

The Ford Modeo 2.0TDI comes in at €26k .... might be worth a test drive.

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The Volvo S40 comes in at €28k .....

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Smaller .... Ford Focus/Volvo C30
 
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