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You can get a 2020 Corsa-e on Auto trader for £12k. Low mileage, low maintenance, 5 doors. No brainier for me.

My experience says buy what you love/want. Then when stuff does go wrong you’re more tolerant and forgiving plus you’ll enjoy driving it more. Good luck 🤞

2k to service a boxster? Watch a few video tutorials and they are easy to service yourself.2 to £300 every other year.No one with a 15 plus year old boxster is going to take it to a main dealer for servicing.will admit suspension arms etc are more costly than other brands but they'll last about 20 years,people generally don't do so many miles in one.tbf I'm retired so not likely your target audience.. How much does it cost to lease a car for a few months? About 2k? Keep up the good work 👍👍👍 Enjoy your channel..

Yes please, great idea…..

Another good one, Jim I'd go head. Citigo is the best option. Been keeping an eye on used EVs for a while as they keep falling in price. e208 takes my eye , but they're over £11k still. Corsa-e is slightly less. So I quite know that market. Under 9k. How big do you want to go? Skoda Citigo too small? Leaf? Kia eSoul if you need bigger?

Get the Seat Mii and make the wife take it to work, even good in winter with the heated seats.. Then you can have the Tesla. More comfortable and faster than a 15 year old mini.

I have had a 14 plate merc b class 1.5 diesel for the past 10y, tax is £30 , and I'm getting 60 mpg, best car ive ever had,

you've got a tesla already so just get the seat mi. I really enjoy your videos so keep going! good luck with the purchase.

I'd go EV and then MGZS or 5. Maybe an e-Golf or Ioniq. Also, I don't know how urgently you need the 2nd car, but the early ID.3s are about 11-12k, so wait a few months and maybe have one of those?

I think this guy is a really good RUclipsr.

2nd hand Corsa E potentially? Over 200 miles "quoted" on a full charge and around 8k on autotrader 2020 plate 80k miles

Got one of those Ora 03’s off the back of your videos, £190 a month, it’s great!

difficult one Jim but what does the wife think?

Just buy a toyota bro

With a depleted wallet.....heart will inevitibly end in tears.....particularly so with the Mini...you will be crying yourself to sleep in the early hours having anguish and stressing about what the next invoice will bring! So, heads it is...based on the options presented, the mii would be the most cost effective and sensible option.

Head or heart 🤔 the heart will win and after a few repair bills your head will go for fox sake, I can't see the point of buying a old ev that may have suspect battery life and a reduced range when you can get an equivalent petrol that goes further. I have normally had to go the practical family car route, I've always wanted a double cab but wasn't suitable for car seats, now the kids are way older I can't afford one as I need a euro 6, I need to change my volvo I got now because I'm sick to death of repair bills so I've been scanning auto trader and watching reviews but can't find what ticks my box that's around 15k, never done loans or lease it makes me sick to see your lease video deals on how much they vary depending on how the market is going. I'm torn between a mitsubish phev or a skoda karoq my heart would luv a moggy van 🤭.

Don’t forget that 100% write down allowance applies to pre-reg as well, as long as it’s only demo mileage.

How much would the insurance cost sway the car you pick?

I killed 3 heart cars in 4 years - one squashed by a tree in a storm, the other two had consistent engine & electrical problems - good money after bad. I had to buy a car with my head this time around. Despite wanting to hate it I forced myself to buy a 7 year old Honda Jazz that had only done 12k miles. After 6 months of ownership I realised I loved it. I'm coming up to 3 years of ownership, and it is 10 years old, but it has been ultra reliable. My biggest issue was I needed to save money for a new roof on my house. With the old cars I was always spending what I'd saved up on car repairs rather than roof repairs. It is wonderful living without the stress of wondering what is going to go wrong next, and this far outweighs any pleasure I derived from the money hemorrhaging heart cars.

👍👍👍 Go with what ever makes you happy. Good luck. Thanks Jim

current shape, high mileage, 40kwh leafs are available from under £5000, with good battery state of health and decent range...I wouldn't drop to 2k

There is no way a 2006 mini is £400 plus a year. It is £170.

Audi a4 Avant Black Edition. Any age or mileage to suit your budget. If you can pay Audi £35 a month for their Audi All In which gives you 2 years warranty, Audi Breakdown and full servicing. Great deal. You dont even need to buy it from Ausi. Mine came from a car supermarket.

Yes

The answer is always Suzuki Swift

What about toyota corolla?

Smart Roadster. Tiptronic shifting.

Go with your heart mate, it’s coming home 😂😂⚽️⚽️

what about a 2014 kia soul, 49,000 miles for £4995 on ebay or a 2013 peugeot 308 for £3400 again on ebay, many more bargains there

Its got to be the head, you can be a born again boy racer when the kids move out🤣 Seat Mii I have heard nothing but good things. I always watch to the end so keep them coming.

This is a me-too post, and yes the Mi/Go/Up ev makes massive sense. If you are up for a challenge, how about a 2019 Leaf 30 Tekna with 20k miles, for not very much? Catch is , sat on my drive last 3 years, complex Buyer fails, Covid and health issues. PM me if interested.

Leaf prices are good and they are reliable

SEAT MII would be my choice a friend of has one and he gets 5 to 6 miles kw and it's great to drive as well

EVMan has an Id3 sport forsale also" chops garage" have an Esouls forsale. Personally i would get a newer kia E soul.

Z4!!!!

What should do is get a lease deal I can recommend you a good one

How about a Golf GTE? Will that still get you the tax savings? They're a great compromise. I'm selling a car at the minute in your budget, can I email you the link?

As a business you should consider a van maybe a small VW

Jim at the gym , no way my man 😂

We are all different and have different use cases. I would hate high excise duty and low mpg and unpredictable high repair costs, and I would go boring but cheap to run and reliable. 20 years ago someone gave me a £50K Jaguar XK8 almost new, I hated it because of the above mentioned reasons, kept for a year and sold it. Go for the Seat would be my choice, but if you want fun, then yes the Cooper, but never the BMW or the van, but too late, you have already decided.

Its just funny to see you go through the same process i went through a few months ago, after an impulse buy of a 3.0 tdi A4 that shifted nicely but cost an arm and a leg to rin and repair, i then went with my head and got an electric corsa. Goy to say i don't love it the same way at all but it is very capable and will save me aome money for a bit. Go with your head until yout business has a couple more years of books and then lease something maybe a bit more fun like a cupra born 😊

My son is looking at selling he’s new shape 2015 Mazda 2 at £4500 buts it’s manual I’m afraid

Consider a mini countryman or clubman, practical and good looking, a diesel automatic, plenty of independent mini specialists out there, good luck bro👍

My mother has an 08 automatic Yaris, and I can confirm it has the worst auto box I have ever driven!!! My pick with head over heart would be the Seat Mii.

I've been thinking of a van for a while just as I can get my bikes in the back when I go to the forest. I would go with your head at this moment in time, hopefully the business will get better and better and when it does you can then allow your heart to make the choice and you will feel you earned it. Also you can put a few vinyls on the side of it and advertise the business...if you make them magnetic you can add and remove as needed. Cheers Jim.

BMW i3 has to be on the shortlist surely. You won't get the bigger battery within budget, but the BEV is super reliable and silly amounts of fun for something with shopping trolley proportions. I do 12k a year in my 8 year old one and it's still amazing

Would the company funds stretch to a 2018/2019 pre facelift Mini Cooper S E - great little fun car if you are doing less miles a day than it’s 110 miles range. Their batteries seem not to degrade much. Has 2 adult seats + 2 small children in the back.

As a sensible second car.... I think the Zoe is a bargain. Your example with 83,000 appears to be a really bad choice.... There are so many out there with private owners and low mileage. An E-up is just too slow and too dull. And the Zoe GT is "Mini Like" in its kind of nippy performance.

BMW I3 with REX?