Looking into getting a car- what did you get? Whats cheap to run?
Help!
First Car
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Nick Harvey
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A black, sit-up-and-beg, Ford Popular.
VERY cheap to run, the petrol was 3/6 a gallon.
My first car, is, a Rover 100 Metro. Not exactly super stylish but good on fule and low on insurance. Also taking pass plus helps insurance costs. But it depends what you want it for. I use it to nip in and around town, so a big nice car is unnessassar. That said there are a lot of new small cars that are far better if you can afford them. As Rover are now dead I'm not sure what I'll do if any part of it breaks in the future.
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Spencer For Hire
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My first car was an old Fiat Uno. I only had it for three weeks when a pissed bloke in a Volvo decided using the brake was too much effort, and he'd rather use my car to reduce his speed from 60mph. With the insurance money though I managed to get a rather nice 2nd hand VW Golf (after borrowing my dad's Merc in the meantime), so every cloud...
Mind you, had it happend more recently with No Win No Fee Pikey Compo Companies, I could have probably got myself a Porsche with the money.
Mind you, had it happend more recently with No Win No Fee Pikey Compo Companies, I could have probably got myself a Porsche with the money.
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Spencer For Hire
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Yeah, good point... Plus I suppose there's the potential added humiliation of appearing in a low-budget daytime TV advert in front of some nasty ornaments and even nastier wallpaper telling the nation that I'm a big scrounger.
In my capacity as a student needing money, I take phone calls on behalf of hundreds of companies at the same time - a couple of which are those no win no fee ripoff merchants.
Unequivocally, every time, without doubt or exception, the caller to those companies is a simpleton.
Last week, we had some guy call up because he drove into his garage at the same time his drunk mother reversed out of it. He was politely advised that he was intending - whether he knew it or not - to sue his mother. He said that he wasn't. He was then asked who he thought would be sued if it wasn't his mother. He decided against it.
Unequivocally, every time, without doubt or exception, the caller to those companies is a simpleton.
Last week, we had some guy call up because he drove into his garage at the same time his drunk mother reversed out of it. He was politely advised that he was intending - whether he knew it or not - to sue his mother. He said that he wasn't. He was then asked who he thought would be sued if it wasn't his mother. He decided against it.
My mate wrote off his car over the weekend. He's not having a good time of it...
He's gonna have to get a new car
He owes me £80
He owes Orange £110
hehehe! He's going to be working like a shitehorse for the next couple of weeks to pay me off!
He's gonna have to get a new car
He owes me £80
He owes Orange £110
hehehe! He's going to be working like a shitehorse for the next couple of weeks to pay me off!
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