Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Basically yes.

@hugo7 it’s a polestar 3

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Initial thoughts?

What's it like vs the Tesla?

lol. Would rep

I have a F31 330d xdrive. It's good at being a reasonably fast, reasonably practical, reasonably cheap to run, reasonably compact family car. It is not however, the ultimate driving machine.
I'd get a 530d if easy parking in bays isn't a requirement. The F31 is not that refined IMO.

Is that the one without a rear window?

No. That’s the 4

It looks very futuristic! Is it a faux pas to ask how much you're paying? I've never owned a new car, I can't really afford nice things and I like my stuff to have a few scuffs so I can stop worrying about scratching then, but if he interested to know what sort of a lifestyle level these are aimed at.

Meh, I don’t mind. It’s through a salary sacrifice. Gross payment is something daft like £1,400 but post tax it’s £800 including insurance.

With the gross amount and my pension contributions, it takes me just below the £100k threshold which means I get my personal allowance back which actually means I get a little more in my pay packet each month so it’s around £150 cheaper than the net amount once you account for the tax.

Not bad for a car with a dealer RRP of £91k.

And are you doing one of those deals where you never actually own it, just swap it to another car in 24 months or something?
Does that feel like you 'own' the car, or does it feel like borrowing it?
I'm so clumsy I think if be paranoid about breaking something!

Got it for 4 years. You can buy at the end but we'll probably swap it. Also unlikely I’ll be at my current place in 4 years because that’ll be 10 years working there.

Who knows.

In the process of bringing back my 20 year old A8 to it's former glory (it's been sitting around for a year+). I thought tyres would be an easy one. Booked it in to get 4 new Goodyear Vector 4Seasons (Halfords deal at National Tyres ) and the tyre shop guys said they couldn't get the wheel nuts off. "They're so tight. we'll injure ourselves".

Collect it and take it to a local tyre specialist to remove them, he rings soon after and says "done, just used the bar to loosen them. Who couldn't get them off?! They must be soft!". Equals 1 hours labour, £54. So now gotta go back again tomorrow to get the tyres done. Not quite the bargain I had first thought!

So nearly £40k to borrow a car for 4 years?

Look at it on the bright side. It's only costing the taxpayer £30K

Which would be similar as the depreciation in that time, no? And as it factors well against income/gets it below 100k to take advantage of other benefits it may make more financial sense than it seems.

Hilarious coming from me, driving my 20 year old shit box that I bought for £2600, 5 years ago. But still.

I envy anyone who can buy a £2,600 shitbox and drive it for 5 years.

I’ll happily go swaps with you. Lol.

Mind you this one might come with bike racks.

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This is probably the SG equivalent of shitbox motoring- it’s for 14 months until it has to be relicenced ($100,000) or crushed.

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This actually looks ok- 5 year ticket on it.

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Ahhh, that’s why you envy it. That definitely makes sense now!

The Shitbox e46 has never felt so good.

I really need to read about how Singapore works with money, it's wild.

My shitbox was 3k euro and going strong 4 years later. I'd love a land cruiser but they're 10k here, and that's no go.

Sounds about right. That’s about 3.5% of joint income over that time though so it’s pretty cost efficient for us.

Golf club blah blah

Not sure how to test, lifting the oil filler cap to see if there is a vacuum but then the lack of vacuum would cover a split pipe as in the video.
https://youtu.be/kp8il0uq4SA?si=BCGlUTl1LPLwf767

If you can take off the four bolts on the cover and look if there is oil residue that maybe the issue in the pcv valve.

Would have done it for £20 ;)

Shitbox means you do the work in the UK anyway.