The EspadaIII car rental thread

Here's the new Peugeot estate, kinda cool in my humble...

Yeah, I suppose it does look a bit German, especially in that colour.

Depends really, if you've only done that once ( ONCE for Christ's sake! ) in 42 years and nigh on 2 million freaking miles, what are the chances eh, none, that's what they are, zero, zilch, not going to happen is it?

Jeez...

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Hmm. Skoda nose, Mercedes middle and a BMW tail. Interior looks like a cross between BMW 5 (good) and Honda Civic (anything but.) Might tempt me in for a look, though.

The French drive cars from their own country in much greater proportion than the British. I suspect that's because they are happier with the basic versions without all the electronic bits that go wrong on French cars. French engines and gearboxes have a good reputation. The electronic unreliability leads to the higher depreciation: as you say, a used one makes more sense financially, but would you actually buy one?

Humph, I wonder if a 508 would stand up to your 40k a year as well as a Mercedes clearly does. You'd also have to get used to the tiny steering wheel and the usual French insistence on having everything controlled by touchscreen, including (I think dangerously) the heating and AC.

...and while I was chugging up and down the pool tonight, it occurred to me that whoever bought that Mondeo ( assuming it has remained with only one further owner ) has had 8/9 years and 100,000 miles from a car that cost them £1400. Of course I've no idea what they've had to spend on keeping it running, so it might not be quite such a good deal, but if there haven't been any major problems, they've done ok from it you'd think.