......I didn't purchase a £10K Asian box with the idea that I would never spend money on it again. We purchased a £17.5K Italian car that needs some love and money thrown at it from time to time.
£17.5k for a Fiat 500?......blinking 'eck!
Our first 1.2 POP cost us £7.5k cash, though we had a PX car which we were given £3k for. The POP was 4 months old, ex Fiat fleet, 825 miles on the clock, a considerable discount for an almost new car.
The TA, after trade in using the 1.2 POP, £4.5K. Price prior to PX, £10400 if I remember correctly, pre-reg, though we subsequently found out, that our 'new' car, was in fact already almost 14 months old when we did the deal. Hence the rather large discount.
The 1.2 i10 Hyundai Premium we now own, total price brand new after discount, about £10700 which included a £1200 discount because we were entitled to a public service discount on their Affinity Scheme. In any case, after PX'ing the TA, we ended up forking out about £4.5k in cash to drive the car home.
Rather coincidentally, all three cars we have bought for the wife, we've only had to fork out £4.5k in actual cash for a new car to drive away such ws the equity we had on PX's on the two 500's.
Each to their own, but there's no way on this planet that I'd spend the sort of money you have on such a small car, as nice looking as it is!
I'm pleased you're enjoying your classy Italian machine, but let us not forget, there's a reason for the acronym 'Fix It Again Tomorrow' :devil:
