Re: New Golf Mk8 omission
Originally Posted by
swimfeeders
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Why do you want the new version?
Whilst the price of older used cars has shot up, there is a glut of new cars in storage in the UK with some huge discounts for pre registered cars.
Flexibility saves money.
I have a 61 reg ex works diesel automatic with 76k on the clock.
I was thinking of changing.
I only do around 7000 a year now and the mechanics in the garage tell me to keep it, it is good for 150,000 miles.
As they cruelly say, nobody is going to steal it.
Two reasons:
Firstly, when our car is three years old, MoTs begin. Then things need repairing or replacing. I've been there. The older the car, the more expensive it becomes and the less it is worth in part-exchange.
Secondly, there have been some improvements in the new model which we think are worth having.
Yes, we had thought about pre-registered cars but, as I mentioned earlier, the existing Golf 8s lack certain things - notably the folding wing mirrors, the lack of which I explained earlier would be quite inconvenient for us with a narrow garage.
Not as old as your old banger, but until we bought this car, I had a 2003 Skoda Fabia diesel which was an excellent car. That, despite being reliable and nice to drive, began to need repairs and replacements. Also, as we were then both retired, we had no need of two cars, so Marge's Mazda 3 went in part-exchange and my Skoda qualified for the government's generous £4000 reward for scrapping. It would have been worth £400 at best!
I'll never again accuse the government of not being generous!