If you were changing your "2nd" car now what would you buy?

[Murdochcat]

Quite interested in peoples thoughts on this.

We have a decent ICE engined car so we'll keep that but what to replace our 2nd car with ?

For clarity 2nd hand with about 18k to spend

Thanks

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Voted petrol, though I'm sticking with diesel for now.

No way anything pure battery, too much faff, ridiculously and no good for very long journeys and no smart phone - and just plain sh*t. I will run ICE, diesel or petrol, as long as it's not made ridiculously unaffordable or difficult. If I was forced out of ICE, would have to get hybrid. I don't do many miles most of the time, except occasional thrashes down to s/western France - so fuel costs not an issue.

Keeping my 20 year old Scudo van until it dies because had it 17 years and it's never broken down or failed an MOT. With 2.0 HDi it has car like performance and is almost as comfotable inside. I toyed with the idea of getting something older/classic as a second car. Like my big Vauxhalls, poss an early Senator/Royale, also 60s/early 70s Rover or Triump 2000/2500 - even a Yank sedan. But it's getting too expensive and difficult here.

Will wait until I'm more based in France because they haven't gone completely enviro-Nazi. Pick up a left hooker. I believe there's no road tax, so you won't get screwed on a very big engine like here (Old Man's S Type is £738 p.a. ) and only a small handful of big cities, which I would never go to, have Crit Air where you have to put a sticker in windscreen stating pollution level and you are banned from these cities certain days/times if over the limit. 99.9% of France, you wouldn't be troubled by Crit Air.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

What type driving, distance. Location, etc

 

[Murdochcat]

What type driving, distance. Location, etc

2nd car - so short to 150 ish round trips -

 

[Brigadier]

IIRC, a Crit Air sticker costs less than a fiver, and lasts the lifetime of the car........

 

[algas]

I voted Diesel, our 2nd car is a 20 yr old Clio 1.5 dci 60ish mpg spares are cheap easy to work on and quite comfortable for long trips, poss petrol if only short journeys though

 

[martygturner]

MG4 if you fancy a electric, don't be put off by the ice brigade they have never owned an electric and only spout the normal youtube packs of click bait rubbish.

Our son got one through work, been excellent range is advertised as 270 miles but with real world it gets 200 miles. But do the maths re depreciation and running costs. Calculate the total cost of ownership rather than fixate on one metric.

We have a leaf as out secondary car, which turned out to be the daily drive, the 2017 passat only gets used for longer journeys and its getting to the point where just renting a car will be cheaper for the odd time its used.

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

2nd car would always be EV. Petrol-hybrid at least.
That'll give you an option whenever you're intending to go into ULEZ zones. Although your current petrol car might qualify now for zero charge, you can't predict that will always be the case. Nor can you predict the future price of fuel.
And if you're on a short mileage trip, why not use the EV.

 

[kingandy2nd]

For that sort of money you could buy a second hand Tesla which will meet your needs, be very cheap to run and will have had the worst of it’s depreciation curve already happened.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I'm not sure hybrid gives you any advantage over ice or ev.

Ev has to be the way to go and will give you an insight into them before replacing the 1st car too.

 

[Brigadier]

Hybrid : worst of all worlds, in my experience.

Two systems to go wrong, range is crap.

ICE or full EV would be my advice.

 

[motorbiking]

Plenty of used model 3s around now at reasonable money.

But it’s hard to beat a nice German diesel. Bags of power and crazy fuel economy.

I like my EV but you feel like a passenger rather than a driver.

 

[fourtytwo]

My present diesel does 60mpg round the lanes, why would I want any other tech!

 

[noseall]

My present diesel does 60mpg round the lanes, why would I want any other tech!

My missus just fetched me a 3m length of solvent weld and managed to get the whole length in side the car. Not sure whether it has owt to do with economy though...

 

[Murdochcat]

For clarity I’m after opinions on what people would buy NOW if they were replacing their 2nd car.