We decided a few weeks back that we couldn't afford the petrol, tax and insurance costs on our car any more, so decided to try and sell it and look for something a bit smaller. We listed it on eBay in a 5 day auction, and sold it for the reserve price. Success!
We needed to find a new car, and fast, because of hospital appointments, Kleeneze, and Martin's delivery driver gig, so we started looking on eBay. I found something that looked too good to be true, but we decided to call about it just to make sure. And after an impromptu trip to Sheffield to check out this car, we are halfway to ownership of a 2005 Seat Leon.
Our eBay buyer is coming to collect the Rover tonight, and Martin will be taking the cash and catching a train to Sheffield tomorrow morning to pick up our new car. Instead of being carless for a month, like last time, we will only be carless for about 18 hours.
And this car...
Martin and I love Seats. They don't sell them in the U.S. but they are a subsidiary of Volkswagon. VW test out their new stuff on Skodas, then Seats, then put them in Volkswagons, and then into Audis. So it's a lovely little Spanish Volkswagon, pretty much. Our first car when we moved here was a Seat Cordoba, and this is the updated version. Seriously, if money had been no object, this is the car we would have chosen for ourselves. Maybe not this color (it's BRIGHT yellow), but this car is seriously gorgeous!
We are getting the car for about 1/10 the actual value. The insurance will be the same, but it will get about twice as many miles per gallon. As Martin says, if the cost of running it doesn't end up being that much less, we can always sell the car for 5 times more than we bought it for! We just have to scrape together a little bit of extra cash to tax the beast!
Pictures are coming!
2 comments:
So glad you are having a bit of good luck, it's about time x
Yay! I want a bright yellow car! :)
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