| Possible New Employment - what do I do with the G4? |
| Keep it and rack up the miles? |
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8% |
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| Keep it and get a cheap company eurobox with the car allowance for work? |
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56% |
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| Flog it, get a luxury barge with the car allowance and buy a Def90 for play? |
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10% |
[5] |
| Get a Prius? |
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10% |
[5] |
| Get a company TDV6 D3 and rack up the miles on that. |
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14% |
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Craig S-L
Joined: 16 Jul 2007
Location: Tring, Hertfordshire
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I have been offered a new job with another company. Part of the deal includes fully expensed company car, or opt out option with expenses, however my annual mileage will go from less than 8k to more than 35k pa (30k+ business, as I will work across 3 sites in Sussex, London and Leicester). So the question is, what to do with the G4?
It is by far the best car I have ever had, but is it practical to keep? Or is it practical to get rid of it in the current market anyway? So for a humourous weekend poll, I though I would ask my virtual bar room mates for your opinions?
PS you can send me an offer by PM in case I decide on the 'flog it' option! Craig
2006 G4 Challenge V8 HSE
Media Support Vehicle Stage 1 & 2 Thailand and Laos
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blue meanie
Joined: 04 Aug 2005
Location: quizzically indifferent
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you've missed an option on the poll:
keep it, get a company TDV6 D3 and rack up the miles on that.  global warming my ars...!!!
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:07pm |
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John C
Joined: 28 Aug 2007
Location: East Yorkshire
Posts: 758
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I'd go with BM! Alternatively I'd keep it and go for high mpg on the cc option. TDV6 SE Auto, Cairns Blue
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:10pm |
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DiscoDad
Joined: 06 Nov 2006
Location: In a Lay-By!
Posts: 1647
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I voted for the 2nd option.
If you find yourself in a regular commute situation where you encounter a particuler pr1ck regularly, then you can always take the d3 one day and give him some back!
Did I really say that? 
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:10pm |
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Craig S-L
Joined: 16 Jul 2007
Location: Tring, Hertfordshire
Posts: 314
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Who voted for the Prius!!!!!!!!!!!
Need to add an option for BM and JohnC - How? Craig
2006 G4 Challenge V8 HSE
Media Support Vehicle Stage 1 & 2 Thailand and Laos
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:21pm |
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NoDo$h
Joined: 02 May 2006
Location: Dodging peanuts
Posts: 5900
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I'm with DiscoDad. Get thee a mid-range eurobox on the company and leave weekends for your special car  Going, going...... Gone!
Carbon footprint? I neither know nor give a damn
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:24pm |
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DiscoStu
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
Location: Essex
Posts: 6277
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Craig S-L wrote:Who voted for the Prius!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:25pm |
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gilmore
Joined: 16 Jan 2005
Location: In my smoking jacket & cravat
Posts: 1376
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Keep the G4. LPG conversion it. That will pay for itself in less than a year. Then you're quids in.
regs
rob All opinions expressed in this posting are my own and are not necessarily those of someone who knows what they are talking about.
TDV6 S Auto, Silver with bramble finish, Cooper STTs & plenty of Stihl countryside control...
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:31pm |
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blue meanie
Joined: 04 Aug 2005
Location: quizzically indifferent
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NoDo$h wrote:I'm with DiscoDad. Get thee a mid-range eurobox on the company and leave weekends for your special car
no no no! (  ) because every company business horrible mile you do and jam you sit in, you'd be wishing no matter how bad and whatever unreasonable hour it was at, that you'd been sat in a D3 doing it instead of the Audi/BMW/Saab/whatever....
especially each time you saw another one... global warming my ars...!!!
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:33pm |
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NoDo$h
Joined: 02 May 2006
Location: Dodging peanuts
Posts: 5900
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You've not driven a Mondeo lately have you. Very good car.
Or perhaps a C6 I'd love to get one of those in a couple of years when they've depreciated to about 48p Going, going...... Gone!
Carbon footprint? I neither know nor give a damn
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:35pm |
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monkey hanger
Joined: 17 Jan 2008
Location: London
Posts: 237
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Brand new C6 is a great car but a bad way to blow 20 grand in 12 months "its probably a virus, you'll be right as rain in a few days and if you're playing sport try to favour the other leg"
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:42pm |
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blue meanie
Joined: 04 Aug 2005
Location: quizzically indifferent
Posts: 2630
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no, you've got me Al ! haven't sat/driven or otherwise in a eurobox since leaving the Pug 406 3.0 and partaking of the D2 in 2002...
(apart from the odd taxi here and there)
and don't have any plans to until motors like the D3 are so expensively out of reach,
mind you at the other end of the scale, did have a sit in the driver's seat of the boss's new ( White ) X6 yesterday and the D3 looked small next to it  global warming my ars...!!!
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:42pm |
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monkey hanger
Joined: 17 Jan 2008
Location: London
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still not as scary as the Phaeton !!!!!! 
Great car again though... "its probably a virus, you'll be right as rain in a few days and if you're playing sport try to favour the other leg"
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:45pm |
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blue meanie
Joined: 04 Aug 2005
Location: quizzically indifferent
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that's not a real graph is it MH ? forty-ood grand in 1st year depreciation? I knew they were bad but that bad ? global warming my ars...!!!
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 10:49pm |
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monkey hanger
Joined: 17 Jan 2008
Location: London
Posts: 237
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Yes it's real!!!
http://www.whatcar.com/depreciation-index.aspx
have fun with this!  "its probably a virus, you'll be right as rain in a few days and if you're playing sport try to favour the other leg"
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