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25k is a good amount of money to play with, have a look at what's available ex demo or nearly new.Originally Posted by raysablade
Ha ha
Try adding: easy to park in town, at least 125bhp, automatic, dual zone climate, heated seats, “good” lights and blind spot monitoring to the list. And under £25000. Bizarre but a Polo GTI is topping her list and she’s no spring chicken.
None of the used searches I’ve found include all of the things she wants.
The basic problem is that she likes to: pay cash, keep her cars for at least 5 years and that’s a long time to go without something you’ve had and enjoyed.
Waiting for the dust to settle and biting the bullet on a factory order seems sensible.
Just had a look on autotrader and there are some minis, polo GTis, 1, 2 and 4 series BMW's and some super spicy A1's all with less than 1k miles on them and auto folding mirrors.
When I used to work for a popular car website the research was people changed cars every 9 years if they bought cash or 3-5 if doing finance and the biggest reason for the finance route changing cars quicker was at the end of the pcp it was cheaper (on a monthly basis) to get a new car and keep the payment the same and ignore the fact you're taking your debt from 20k back up 28k etc.
BMW park lane have a 230i m sport with 101 miles on the clock for £26,790.
Cars like this will all be last quarter's pre reg as by law you cannot sell a pre reg car for at least 90 days. Some dealers don't care about this but the vast majority do which is why so many farmers make a killing for renting fields to car dealers all over the country to store thousands of cars in while waiting for the magical 90 day period to end.
£25k on a polo gti (especially in red) is worse than 15k on a Hublot
