My New Car Finance Idea!

[Niall]

Maybe I've just got lucky, but in my experience this 'old cars are unreliable' thing is a fallacy.

Correct. Providing a car has been looked after correctly they are no more unreliable than a brand new car. In fact, I've had more break downs in brand new cars than i have my old shit box peugeots lol.

That said, i can see why some want new cars. Unfortunately around here its mostly a status thing with mums in their range rovers and X5s but if i was doing the job i do but didn't have a company car, i would be leasing a brand new car every 3 years purely because doing 40k a year, i get through a set of tyres about every 9 months (not cheap, have to buy premiums), a service every 6-8 months plus repairs, it would be economical for me to do so. If it was just a commuting car doing 10-20 miles a day, id be rolling around replacing superchargers monthly :p