wannabeeahack wrote:
roythebus wrote:
Back to basics, both my cars do about 30,000 miles a year; the hybrid costs about £3536 in petrol, the diesel Voyager about £7243, so half the price spent on fuel.
If you don't want to lease, get one on HP, then it's yours to keep after the HP is paid, simples. I chose to lease so if the car proves unreliable/uneconomic, it goes back and I get a conventional car.
Firstly, the Voyager weighs about twice what the hybrid weighs and carries half again as many passengers so its hardly a direct comparison
I do 30K a year @ 50mpg and my fuel bill is £4000, i pay no HP, as i paid cash for the car
unto each his own - plus i can flog the car in a heartbeat
Yep, I'd tend to agree, but they're my figures so that's what I use for comparison. If you want to work using used cars, that's fine by me, my Voyager was ex dealer demonstrator.
To my way of thinking, you can buy a car and have to suffer the depreciation until it's eventually worth very little and you may end up with a tatty car which doesn't give a good public impression, or you lease or HP a car which you can renew every so often and deduct the lease fees from your tax bill! Why pay the taxman when you can spend a similar amount on a newer car?
My lease was arranged through Amber Vehicle Leasing of Salford who used Toyota Financial Services. I initially asked direct through the local Toyota dealer, T Finance said no, so went through Amber who brokered exactly the same deal through T Finance who then had to pay to have the car delivered to Kent from Salford! Am I missing something?
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