black subaru 06

hi i am considering buy a cheap run about and keeping my sti for fun. This is in some part due to petrol prices the now (£1.20) litre v power and also due putting over 250 miles a week on her.

I was just wondering does anyone else do this or do you use the subaru as a daily driver.

Jeem

iTrader: (1)

Ive got a celica gt great car and my sti is for fun coz the insurance for it would be a bomb

Boyakasha

iTrader: (2)

Yep, me and the Mrs bought a little run around. I've got the Scoob and shes got a porker.

Anytime we go to the super market or anywhere that there is a chance of the car being scratched/dented etc then we take the run around and we take turns on using it for work.

black subaru 06

thats what i am going to do buy a punto or something for running around and for work.

is the celica gt not heavy on petrol

Jeem

iTrader: (1)

Ye celica thirsty but doesnt drink as much as the scoob

black subaru 06

at the prices of petrol the now i am around 70 quid a week just on petrol to go to work. is madness so need to get run around

Jeem

iTrader: (1)

Ye i know a tank lasts a while until i give it a blast, think of the money you could save if fuel wasnt so dear and the mods you could get. until prices fall which could be a while a lpg car is prob the way to go

Going 4 400bhp

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Yes i use my 4.4 V8 X5 as a daily drive

Jeem

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^ plenty mpg

black subaru 06

yeah hopefully i will save bit of money can spend it on the car

RB5 Boyo

I have a 1995 toyota carina e 1.6 petrol for my daily driver....only cost me £450, its lively enough for a 1.6 as its the twin cam 16v engine, its easy enough on fuel and i can go anywere in it without worrying about parking somewere or somebody scratching it.............oh and it only cost me £35 to out it through the MOT, not bad for a 13 year old car with 120,000 miles on the clock!!

Cheap as chips and hard to beat!!

GazTheHat

I got myself a mapped Fabia vRS (180/290) for the daily commute.

What a car!

A hoot to drive and still achieve 50+mpg. I wouldn't want to be in any other daily commute to be honest. Nice drive, instant torque, good economy and since i've upgraded the brakes, it stops as well as it goes. Peoples' faces are a treat as you wazzz past them, with a Skoda badge on the front.

Hold their money too. A phrase not muttered on here too much.

Herbie.

I bought a starlet glanza V turbo for a runaround.........

Enjoyed driving it that much and loved how cheap it was to run that I sold my Impreza LOL

harry_p1

I use my Sti on weekends and as for the weekday its the OYSTER Card

martyrobertsdj

iTrader: (1)

I got a £600 Vitara LWB for a daily driver.

Rough and ready, but goes off road ok and my little lad's quad bike fits in the back just nice.

timmy2take

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How much does that 250 miles cost you?
You have to take into consideration, what if anything you'd save by purchasing another car/taxing/insuring/upkeep/fuelling/etc etc.

Mind you, I get 20mpg in mine driving it nicely and have thought about buying a second car.

black subaru 06

not worked it out but probably 60 to 70 a week just for work

zs_phil

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my run around for the last 3 months is a marin mountain bike which is fuelled by my 2 legs which in turn is fuelled by food and drink

seriously though i now only use my scoob on a weekend and only put in £20 a week instead of £45 i bike to work and when i need something from shop i bike there too and it is alot quicker on bike to get to work and back

pumba

I picked up an old cavalier diesel, from my inlaws, as they were gonna scrap it when they purchased there new car, it saves me about £120 a month on fuel, so its worth having it as a run around, also i dont care what i chuck in it ( stuff for the tip etc)

scoobyDAZZA

2004 Jaguar X type 2 litre SE diesel
40+ MPG and £120 RFL

and it's for sale , i need a navara , L200 , ranger / similar to tow the scoob, but something that i can still use for work and tescos

Budgie

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we tried this and bought a citroen c2 diesel
what a heap of crap
7 months later sold it and bought another scoob

budgie

btw my navara only does 19mpg

urdad

,I bought my scooby to drive it,a second car is not even considered....
I can't see how buying another car is economicaly sound..but my wife does have her Scenic,then again I've not chosen to drive that evn shopping since I've had the scooby...

Blueblaster

Few ideas. Don't go out and buy a four door saloon with big wheels and a fancy badge. I just had to replace two tyres on my diesel Civic and it cost me £300 (they're 18 inchers) and the first service was about £250. In contrast our Siecento Sporting Arbath costs 50 quid to service and because it's so light it gets through tyres far more slowly and they cost 60 quid a corner. With diesel costing 10% more than petrol the 45-50mpg that we get out of the Fiat (mostly around town) is virtually the same as the low 60s I get out of the Civic.

So I reckon you should be looking for something less than a grand with a tiny engine. FWIW there are loads of Seicentos on Pistonheads and they are a lot of fun a very low speeds. Worth a look I reckon - just don't get carried away and spend too much!!

scoobiesnax

My Wagon is my daily driver, hubby has an old Ford Escort for work (40K miles and cost £500 - saves loads on petrol as commute is about 250miles per week) and a modified 200SX for fun....but he has taken the Suby to a stag weekend......I am trying to bring him over to the 'dark' side but so far is resisting!

500

My Mrs had a P1 and it was costing too much to fuel (she does an average of 120 miles a day!) so we bought a Citroen ZX Volcane TD, great on fuel and had it around 8 months, but I wanted to upgrade her to somthing a little safer so we got a Vectra SRI 140 on LPG, I've done 500miles on 50 quids worth of LPG so that did the job and we had that around 6 months. Since then she decided that she wanted somthing a little comfier so we've just upgraded to a VW Touareg 3.2 V6 Sport and had that converted to LPG and the scoob is going to get the funds back, theres still performance cars in the house, so she's not loosing everything, still sorry that the P1's going, but loves the Touareg!

Anyone want an LPG vectra, let me know as that's still here too and needs to go asap!

Blueblaster

Another thought...you won't shut me up now. If you buy the right car (i.e. a light supermini with a zippy little petrol engine) you'll have so much fun whizzing everywhere flat out that you'll probably get back in your Scoob (that cost 20 times as much) and think it was a waste of money. It happened with me - I sold my 8 month old STI and was given our Fiat as a stop gap and instantly found the fun I was longing for.

And just a word for those who think you should just pour money into your Scoob and wish your cares away. How many miles a year do you do and how big is your mortgage? I live in the SE and if you moved my house next to a friend's pad in a very nice part of Yorkshire I could afford to buy my house, her house and the house next door and still have change to buy a VERY nice car. Unless you live in the overcrowded, super-expensive South East you really have no idea how expensive it is and what a waste of time it is sitting in a traffic jam in a 300bhp Impreza.

Blueblaster

500, do you not think your missus has lost the plot? Save a fortune getting the Citroen and then decide to get an LPG Vectra which costs the same as a diesel and now she's got a 3.2V6 Toureg????!!!! That MUST be worse on petrol that the P1 when you add on the cost of the conversion and you've just lost half your boot space? So you've now got a 2.5 tonne, impractical car that isn't cheap to run. If I'm talking bollox then please correct me, but from when I am sitting she is completely barking.

urdad

I prolly have a different outlook,being a shift worker I rarely sit in traffic jams,I don't have a big mortgage(I wasn't stoopid enough to lie to the lenders),I live in Windsor..cheap I don't think so...
I get offered cheap cars on a regular basis,not always ****ters either;I was in the motor trade before I was in the sweet trade...
You are right but most of the things you mention are influenced heavily in the decisions made by the individual.
If driving/owning a scooby is not suitable so be it,but you shouldn't really quantify it using the diversity of the national populus,if you decide to drive a Fiat it's because it suits you and perhaps your predicament.
The post actually looks like your trying to defend driving a Fiat.
Swap my scooby for another car..not in the forseeable future and certainly not a Fiat.
No dig intended just an opinion as is yours.

500

Citroen did 42mpg @ now 1.25/litre

Subaru does 28mpg @ 1.20/litre

Vectra does 38mpg @ 53p/litre

Touareg does 24mpg @ 45p/litre (found cheaper gas)

Subaru wasn't getting used to be honest apart from by me, and she wanted somthing more comfy and luxurious for the daily commute as her work is 55miles away, and her mums is 45 miles away, doing roughly 110-160 miles a day, the subaru was a bit tireing for an everyday car being stuck in traffic with a paddle clutch, if you were doing 6-700 miles a week, wouldn't you want comfort! gas conversion may take up some boot space, but the boot is only used for a monthly shop

If we keep the touareg for 6 months, it's paid for the conversion and for the equiv of 60mpg, its a very nice place to be.

I don't see how you can call the touareg impractical either, it'll go anywhere and we have other vehicles that will do what the touareg wont, for her it's all she needs on a day to day basis and in comfort and luxury with economy most can only dream of!

Blueblaster

I actually drive a 20 grand Civic - we still have the Fiat because it is fun and very handy as both a town car and a spare car.

I used to live in Windsor when I had my Scoob. I am amazed you find it worth bothering when half the town is covered in speed bumps, the police spend most of their time either camped out on the road down to Runnymede or on Imperial Road and the traffic between 7am and 9am and 3pm and 7pm is total hell. Even the fun roads down to Ascot are normally busy. And I say this as someone who works shifts too.

I made the comment about where members live because of the large percentage that reside north of the Watford Gap. Even a modest flat in Windsor is about £200k which works out at about £1200/month at the moment. Elsewhere in the country you could get a very nice pad for half of that which means a few quid extra on petrol is manageable.

I didn't read your post as a dig, but I will defend the Fiat all day. I can hurl it around roundabouts at 6000rpm and never have to worry about the Plod. In the SE it is, IMHO, miles more fun than my STI.

Funny how two people living in the same place can come to such different conclusions.