Old BMW for me please, my colleagues at work come in moaning that they had to spend £1000 replacing the turbo on their Diesel Focus, which is just a shell on 4 wheels to them, and it really pisses them off.

I have to spend £1000 on suspension parts in the same week and feel good about because my great car now feels even better.

Remember, that hatchback may be brand new today but in the example given, we are not talking about ballers, we are talking about people like us who will not be selling after 1 yr, we will be keeping for around 4 yrs +. That little fiesta or Mazda 2 will be on around 48000 miles by then - not so much of a nice new car at that point. And it will have depreciated to shit, so you will need to find a huge sum to buy another 15k brand new car. Now a 15k 10 yr old BMW will be worth alot more after that same 4 year period.

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