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Looking for a car

For my 21st birthday last week (which I forgot to blog about) the plan is to get a car. Particularly useful since I’m now going into 4th year and for my first (proper) block I’ll need to be at Inverclyde frequently. I also kind of need it for work at the weekend. Managed to get completely soaked on Sunday in the supposed summer weather.

Unfortunately, finding a car isn’t as simple as it should be. Conditions are:

  • Under £1k
  • Ideally under 100k miles
  • Ideally not much older than 10 years
  • MOT with a good few months left
  • Not French (no offence, they’re just rubbish cars)
  • Within about 40 miles from here

I’ve got August to try and find one, seen a few that I quite the look of but aren’t great. Hopefully I’ll get one soon, will get some nice pics of it for here when I do.

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  1. Rob
    August 1st, 2009 at 09:40 | #1

    You have to go for a German car then. Presumably with a low insurance group category (are you paying the insurance?).

    Try a VW golf. They run for ever, and they are relatively cheap in terms of servicing/spare parts.

  2. August 1st, 2009 at 12:06 | #2

    Yep I’m paying the insurance. VW polo would be nice (or even a lupo) but can I find a decent one? Found a few Nissan Micras (cringe) that I wouldn’t mind.

  3. Rob
    August 1st, 2009 at 18:00 | #3

    Quite a few of the (realtively) recent Puntos knocking aroun the £900 mark. Worth a punt(o)?

  4. August 1st, 2009 at 18:21 | #4

    @Rob
    Humm, I’d rather not – not the greatest reliability wise and I think they look ugly.

  5. August 3rd, 2009 at 22:51 | #5

    Got one – Nissan Micra! Get it on Wednesday and I’ll put some pics up then.

  6. Rob
    August 13th, 2009 at 16:52 | #6

    Come on Scott! lets see photos of this beast!

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