XIIVVX
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Well, I am afraid the daily driver / recycling run transport died ignominiously last week. It was a 2000 is VW Caddy in white and rust, then one morning it snapped its timing belt on the driveway and munched up the sturdy 1.9 litre diesel powerhouse.
Now this promoted the V8R to daily driver (no tip runs for the posh Jaguar) and at 22 mpg or thereabouts my wallet was taking a battering. So replacing the Caddy was a necessity.
Having bought the original DD, which was the Skoda Pickup, for £600, I had splashed out on the Caddy some 11 years later the prodigious sum of £640. Regrettably it had only survived three and a half years, but I was cheered by the scrappy giving me £337 for the corpse and shifting it off my driveway. Something odd has gone on in the lower end of the motoring gene pool and any halfway decent van (this bar is set very low) is around £1,500 to £2,000. In fact I briefly considered X-Type Jaguar estates which are going for the same money and have tons of room, but generally are a lot nicer than a sh*gg*d out Transit Connect or whatever the dwarf tranny calls itself these days.
In the end, driven by the £35/pa VED (Already a saving of three hundred quid a year compared to the van) and the close-to 60mpg thirst for diesel I bought this
Well it does have a pretty huge load area for the tip runs, just 111,000 miles and a haggled price of £2,100.
Be nice
XIIVVX
Now this promoted the V8R to daily driver (no tip runs for the posh Jaguar) and at 22 mpg or thereabouts my wallet was taking a battering. So replacing the Caddy was a necessity.
Having bought the original DD, which was the Skoda Pickup, for £600, I had splashed out on the Caddy some 11 years later the prodigious sum of £640. Regrettably it had only survived three and a half years, but I was cheered by the scrappy giving me £337 for the corpse and shifting it off my driveway. Something odd has gone on in the lower end of the motoring gene pool and any halfway decent van (this bar is set very low) is around £1,500 to £2,000. In fact I briefly considered X-Type Jaguar estates which are going for the same money and have tons of room, but generally are a lot nicer than a sh*gg*d out Transit Connect or whatever the dwarf tranny calls itself these days.
In the end, driven by the £35/pa VED (Already a saving of three hundred quid a year compared to the van) and the close-to 60mpg thirst for diesel I bought this
Well it does have a pretty huge load area for the tip runs, just 111,000 miles and a haggled price of £2,100.
Be nice
XIIVVX
