To ask what year your car is?

[Hairy09]

Mine is a 2012 hatchback, I wanted something cheap, reliable, easy to run and cheap repair costs and I'm happy with what I've got. I seem to be in a friend circle with nothing older than 2020 which is tough where they all fawn over each other's car but I've made the correct choice for me. Which is yours?

One is 2012, great wee Astra, manual
The other is 2024 hybrid Arkana, electric
Love em both

2026. I do about 30k miles a year and anything I've had used has cost me far more in repairs and depreciation than the lease is costing.

I have a 2011 too but needs a few grand spending on it to get it started. Again proving my point above

I actually struggled to find a newer car that I liked that wasn't an automatic and wasn't fully electric. I don't want either, they'll have to prize my manual car from my cold dead hands

How weird that even with a number greater than 2000 if you just put that followed by a full stop it still assumes you're trying to do a number bullet point and auto formats it.

Mine is 2010 and DHs is 2007. Both Audi A6 estates and going strong. Mine has done around 135k and DHs 36k (Japanese import). Might sell the 2010 one next year and will be looking for a 2015 Q7 probably.

2004

I have a 2011 Mazda axaela, it looks old/dated relative to all the other more modern cars in the staff carpark., and at times I feel inferior but then I have expensive holidays which my colleague who has huge car repayments is jealous.

I would like a car with more modcons, I will upgrade when my student loan is paid off.

Mine are 2021 and 2022.

I do really high mileage so feel like I swap them often.

1998 bought in 2004
So old its got a tape player and multi CD changer but its still going strong.

Ours is a 2007 car and we have had it since 2010

its 2024. I won’t buy a banger

Really? I'm doing 25k + a year. Had my car nearly 3 years, gone through both most . Changed tyres brajes and oil and it's still fine at 127k on a 16 playe

Two are 2006. The new one is 2017

2018 and I bought it new. It’s been great so far. No problems with it.

Well it depends on the car, diesels will go longer but I don't go for them for environmental reasons (personal choice). It's also though because I drive long distance but always solo, I prefer to change cars when I'm nearing 90-100k miles so I've got something to trade in for something that's more reliable. There'll always be someone who's got 150k out of a cheap hatchback but its a bit pot luck, and I don't want to be stuck on a roadside somewhere if I don't win the used car lottery!
We only have one car in the household and I use it as a work vehicle so just getting it in for repairs to maintain can be a pain.

2025 my first new(ish it was an ex demonstrator) car I’ve owned and I love it. We’ve done years of bangers and it felt a false economy for us as we’d pick them up cheap but end up spending so much, the last MOT before we sold is cost far more than what we originally paid for the car and we had to have a rental for so long while it was being repaired

I buy a new car every year or 2 years. My current one is a 2026.
Sometimes I part ex or sometimes I sell it separately to the new purchase, depending what works out better for me. But I'd never get a lease/finance as I think being in debt for a car is madness.

Agree. Mine is 2015 and I wouldn't be able to find similar in a newer model. I love my car.

One is 2010 and I've had it 13 years.
The other is 2023 and leased

2014, we tend to buy newish cars and run them for a good ten years until they start giving us issues. We've been due an upgrade for a while but honestly don't want to spend the money when it's not giving us any problems.

2007

Mine 2006
Wife's 2016
Work van 2018

Since the wife died last year, I have been debating what to do with cars as she loved hers, and I bought mine because she liked that too (hers is a practical hatchback, mine is a convertible), but I don't need all of them. Hers has a lot of sentimental value, so I am dreading the day it dies.

2018

2024 I’ll only buy on a lease. I have no interest in owning a car. I drive a lot and I want something ultra reliable with a warranty and with most of the bells and whistles. I spend too long in my car to drive someone basic it’s just not as pleasant and certainly not as comfortable

2015 and its slowly dying on me.