Hi All,
First to keep things on brand... the 4200 sailed through an MOT last week and with a bit of a tip from the guys at Emblem, I have found the source of my squeaky suspension. Lubing the shock ram did the trick... hopefully there is no bigger issue lurking... for now anyway I will focus on enjoying it... shame I didn't make it to Salisbury on Sunday, I didn't realise until it was too late!
Back to my off-topic request. We are about to replace an ageing Range Rover (04 plate we have had for 7+ years) for something equally load lugging, but, the lure of some semi electric motoring is taking us towards plug in hybrids. Whilst I wouldn't describe myself as overly green - the combined engine size of our last 3 motors is a somewhat cheeky 11.4 litres - we now park in a double garage which fills with diesel fumes when we need to move the car forward even a fraction to load up. With a young family... this has really hit home the fact that a 15 year old oil burner is pretty horrid in terms of what comes out the back end.
Options in the hybrid space seem limited with the XC90 the only car that realistically ticks the boxes. I've never really shopped at this end of the market before and I am quite confused as to where my money is most secure I guess, so any thoughts appreciated. To try and keep it reasonably real... I have seen
16 plate car with 10k miles at £53k - fairly nice spec, very low miles for age... would have a 12 month warranty... my concerns... not my preferred colour (black) and £53k 'feels' like a lot of money on a car that by reg, is 3 years old.
68 plate car with 4k miles at £65k - prob the nicest car and essentially new, but, 12k more money... that's a lot of money. Will it continue to hold that... or am I just buying into greater levels of depreciation. I guess the very personal question there is do I need to... but strangely... I can almost rationalise the price easier because it is basically new.
or
We could search out something more heavily used at around £45k... so assume 16 plate with less than 30k miles on the clock. This feels like a fairly different proposition in some ways... but it would save £20k end to end which is a heck of a lot of money!
I think we will keep the car for at least 3 years... I wouldn't imagine us replacing it before there were genuine all electric options (we tested an i-Pace, amazing car, but maybe a tad too small for now plus charging infrastructure concerns). I am financing as part of a wider shuffle so I don't need car specific finance so that is a bit irrelevant I think. Whilst in theory we can make the budget for any option, if we go top end we will have to sacrifice that spend on a property project we are doing so its not a money no object decision.
I guess many of you will have been through similar thought processes before so let me know what you would do and why?
Cheers,
Chris
First to keep things on brand... the 4200 sailed through an MOT last week and with a bit of a tip from the guys at Emblem, I have found the source of my squeaky suspension. Lubing the shock ram did the trick... hopefully there is no bigger issue lurking... for now anyway I will focus on enjoying it... shame I didn't make it to Salisbury on Sunday, I didn't realise until it was too late!
Back to my off-topic request. We are about to replace an ageing Range Rover (04 plate we have had for 7+ years) for something equally load lugging, but, the lure of some semi electric motoring is taking us towards plug in hybrids. Whilst I wouldn't describe myself as overly green - the combined engine size of our last 3 motors is a somewhat cheeky 11.4 litres - we now park in a double garage which fills with diesel fumes when we need to move the car forward even a fraction to load up. With a young family... this has really hit home the fact that a 15 year old oil burner is pretty horrid in terms of what comes out the back end.
Options in the hybrid space seem limited with the XC90 the only car that realistically ticks the boxes. I've never really shopped at this end of the market before and I am quite confused as to where my money is most secure I guess, so any thoughts appreciated. To try and keep it reasonably real... I have seen
16 plate car with 10k miles at £53k - fairly nice spec, very low miles for age... would have a 12 month warranty... my concerns... not my preferred colour (black) and £53k 'feels' like a lot of money on a car that by reg, is 3 years old.
68 plate car with 4k miles at £65k - prob the nicest car and essentially new, but, 12k more money... that's a lot of money. Will it continue to hold that... or am I just buying into greater levels of depreciation. I guess the very personal question there is do I need to... but strangely... I can almost rationalise the price easier because it is basically new.
or
We could search out something more heavily used at around £45k... so assume 16 plate with less than 30k miles on the clock. This feels like a fairly different proposition in some ways... but it would save £20k end to end which is a heck of a lot of money!
I think we will keep the car for at least 3 years... I wouldn't imagine us replacing it before there were genuine all electric options (we tested an i-Pace, amazing car, but maybe a tad too small for now plus charging infrastructure concerns). I am financing as part of a wider shuffle so I don't need car specific finance so that is a bit irrelevant I think. Whilst in theory we can make the budget for any option, if we go top end we will have to sacrifice that spend on a property project we are doing so its not a money no object decision.
I guess many of you will have been through similar thought processes before so let me know what you would do and why?
Cheers,
Chris