As everyone's quoting the great man...
I don't believe it's possible for someone with my needs and mileage to drive something genuinely old though.... for example the slumber does 20mpg on a good day, and needs a full service every 3000 miles. Fine if you pootle 3 miles to work a day, not fine when your work & family hack needs to swallow 500 miles++ a week, 52 weeks of the year.
*Coughs Unless you're female and drive a bog standard 1147 Herald on a 50 mile each way commute 5 days a week normally with two colleagues squeezed in like someone I'm quite closely related to did.....
Auto slumber probably isn't the best example for MPG. In my experience older stuff survives pretty well with regular minor servicing (like adjusting the points) and occasional oil chages, greasing etc. I certainly didn't change the Oxford's oil 6 times in the year I did 18k!
But I will concede that most folk can't put up with old stuff for regular use and that bargain basement, end of depreciation cars make considerably more sense than (nearly) new.
arthurbrown said:
I don't believe it's possible for someone with my needs and mileage to drive something genuinely old though.... for example the slumber does 20mpg on a good day, and needs a full service every 3000 miles. Fine if you pootle 3 miles to work a day, not fine when your work & family hack needs to swallow 500 miles++ a week, 52 weeks of the year.
*Coughs Unless you're female and drive a bog standard 1147 Herald on a 50 mile each way commute 5 days a week normally with two colleagues squeezed in like someone I'm quite closely related to did.....
Auto slumber probably isn't the best example for MPG. In my experience older stuff survives pretty well with regular minor servicing (like adjusting the points) and occasional oil chages, greasing etc. I certainly didn't change the Oxford's oil 6 times in the year I did 18k!
But I will concede that most folk can't put up with old stuff for regular use and that bargain basement, end of depreciation cars make considerably more sense than (nearly) new.
