MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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I don't have a car and I get free travel on buses and discounted travel on some trains (I work for a transport operator) so my travel costs a month probably average £20.
But travelling to work everyday by bus adds on 2 hours a day to my commute. Travelling anywhere not served by major bus routes and rail services is a pain with infrequent and unreliable services. I can also ride my bike in more places since I'm not limited by only riding in places with a railway station. So in reality I want a car...
Option 1: stop whinging and use public transport it costs so little for me to use
Option 2: buy a car - I'm 23 so it has to be cheap, so a vauxhall corsa or something like that and just run it into the ground.
However I hate modern cars they are awful, boring, ugly, plastic things, did I mention ugly
Option 3: I do really fancy an Austin A40 farina however but how much of a bad idea is getting one...?
What should I do?
buy a motorbike ?
Buying an old car to commute in will be a false economy, you mentioned a Corsa don't on any account buy one cos they are really ugly ! If you have to get a car for commuting purposes and want reliability you have two options
Nissan Micra this shape
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or yaris this shape
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DO NOT BUY A CORSA !!!!
Commute on public transport, hire something for a weekend when you want to go away
Option 4:
How does the occasional taxi cost up...bet you could get a load, even several per week and be below the total cost of car ownership. Or a car sharing club.
It won't cost up for someone who already has a car on the drive, but add up insurance, tax, fuel, maintenance and repairs, parking charges and I wouldn't be surprised if you could get chauffeured (by taxi) to work or a direct bus/train link on a fairly regular basis!
P.S Once you get a car it'll be hard to go back, it makes you lazy!