Cars to cure the credit crunch

Concerned about the credit crunch? Fed-up with rising food and fuel prices?

The best way to save thousands of pounds is to look at your motoring costs.

Here’s a list of cars that are cheap to buy and cheap to run.

Citroen C1 5dr Code £8895
Citroen C2 3dr Cache £9225
Daihatsu Sirion 5dr S £7995
Fiat Panda 5dr Active £7000
Ford Ka 3dr Studio £7350
Hyundai Getz 5dr CDX £8705
Kia Picanto 5dr £5995
Peugeot 107 5dr Urban £8105
Proton Savvy 5dr Street £5995
Renault Twingo 3dr Extreme £7500
VW Fox 3dr £6600
Chevrolet Matiz 5dr S £6265

If you choose a car with CO2 emissions under 120 g/km you will only pay £35.00 a year for road fund licence/vehicle excise duty, instead of £120.00.

Citroen C1 5dr 1.0 108 g/km
Daihatsu Sirion 5dr 1.0 118 g/km
Kia Picanto 5dr 1.0 117 g/km
Peugeot 107 5dr 1.0 109 g/km
Chevrolet Matiz 5dr 0.8 119 g/km

Source http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/information/how-to-use-the-data-tables.asp#petrol

The Citroen, Daihatsu and Peugeot are too much money. Leaving the Picanto and Matiz. Both can be bought for £5595.

Both cars are similar or the same in terms of interior space, comfort and convenience features, performance, economy and safety/security features.

If you work it out over 10,000 miles the Picanto will use £12.00 less in petrol but cost you the about the same more to insure.

The Matiz has 2 advantages over the Picanto:

1. The Matiz is 4 inches narrower making it easier to park.
2. You can buy 3 years servicing for the Matiz for £199.00 which makes a massive difference.

Make mine a Matiz 0.8S.

Regards
Ralph

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