Sunday, March 09, 2008

Dragging around car showrooms

This morning we took J for a trip to look at some cars. Unfortunately the first place we stopped at had some very big puddles so he spent the morning with wet trousers. Never mind.


We have now examined Mazdas 5 and 6, the 5 was horrid and the six is very nice, but too expensive for us. Toyotas Corola Verso and Avensis estate the same as Mazda, nasty or too expensive. Then Opel Astra and Safira, Astra was boring and the Zafira seats didn't go far enough back for my long legs. Then we stopped at Ford again to check out the C-Max and the Focus estate, both of which seemed OK so now we need to decide ow much to spend and on what. The big estates are about 370 000kr (£35k of $70k) the Focus, C-Max and Astra are about 280 000kr (£26k or $52k) and apparently our car is worth about 130 000kr (£12k or $24k)

So far it looks like we are tempted to go for something like a 7 year old Volvo V70 with about 50k miles on it or a slightly newer Japanese estate like a Mazda or a Toyota for about 250 000kr.


That is until tomorrow when we change our minds again...

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:06 pm

    Mazda's not in the same street as Toyota Honda Nissan we had a mazda remember.
    Volvo just some freaky Sweedish street.
    Writing this by the Viceroy in Santa Monica

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  2. Anonymous10:11 pm

    Volvo!
    But I'm biased & ignorant so perhaps not worth listening to.
    m

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