HP, you've got it in one! Exactly my situation. Landed a contract till end April in Birmingham, barriered car park in and out, so as secure as reasonably could be expected. I owe nothing on the S8, the X is in "negative equity" so would be foolish to chop it in as it would cost me. So realistically would end up with an extra car and the 8 would end up not being used for ages again, which does them no good at all.
Psyche, I spend about £100-ish a week on petrol. Doing about 100 miles a day. Say 2000 miles a month. I could buy an end-of-life diesel Mondeo or Merc with starship mileage for under £2K I guess and recoup the £2K quite quickly. I'd probably save about half the petrol spend, so about £200 a month and cover the cost of buying an ancient doozel in about 10 months. Very rough estimate,. though, as an ancient starship mileage car is bound to need some attention or pack up or at least its more likely to.
I would love a D3 but can't justify using the savings on one given the work circumstances and my S8 wouldn't sell for much so no real purpose other than a new toy- mine owes me nothing, I've owned it since 2004 and its performance is usually brilliant. OK, the telly no longer works since switch-off, but I can live with that
and no car I've ever owned or driven has provided the same interior finish or drive quality.
Oh decisions decisions
