What exactly do you use it for?
Do you do long repping runs or just commute to work and back?
How is your company vehicle expensed, do you claim for business miles only and fuel private miles etc etc?
My current favourite is the Mondeo 1.6D eco bollox, not quick but is nice and comfortable and gets 60mpg on the long run form London to Llanberis.
Its a company car so who cares what it is so long as it costs the least out of your own wallet, leaving you more money to do fun things with.
A3 is a nice car but back breaking over 400 miles in comparison to the Mondeo imo.
Avoid French unless you like driving 1 litre courtesy cars every few months :grin:
Even if it was given to me as a company car i wouldn't have a new citreon. Would be in the dealer every week.
My company insist that I drive a car they are responsible for. I work for a company that has sites all over the country and I go to them all, but the regular ones are only 100-200 mile daily round trips.
For years I started with cr@p handed down cars that were uncomfortable and not pleasurable to drive. For this reason it has to offer more than just value. I went all out when I got to choose my first car and the Mazda 6 was a no brainer at the time. Like the Mondeo, I could drive it forever. It was high spec, comfortable, quick, handled VERY well, practical and most importantly, reliable.
I'm one of very few people left with a "full" fuel card so includes personal mileage. I'm taxed the same amount every month based on an over estimated usage figure, the cars engine size, MPG and CO2 output. It's pricey. Next four years projections say it's only going to go up, a lot.
(decent spec Vauxhalls and Korean manufacturers fail here).
I've been told my mileage will be going up considerably this year.
No matter how clever and "stylish" French cars get, they still haven't got the driving bit right, therefore I'm out.
With all this in mind I want to tone it down a bit, I have the golf and don't enjoy it, I need to make it so. (plus other non car related projects in my life deserve my money over a company car)
Would love to stay big but MQB Audi A3 is apparently bang on now in most of the area's it was lacking before. My only available option is Sportback which is fine by me. If my list is of old stock, dilemma.
@ Chuff, Yeah, I found them to be very economic when they weren't working. :grin:
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What exactly do you use it for?
Do you do long repping runs or just commute to work and back?
How is your company vehicle expensed, do you claim for business miles only and fuel private miles etc etc?
My current favourite is the Mondeo 1.6D eco bollox, not quick but is nice and comfortable and gets 60mpg on the long run form London to Llanberis.
Its a company car so who cares what it is so long as it costs the least out of your own wallet, leaving you more money to do fun things with.
A3 is a nice car but back breaking over 400 miles in comparison to the Mondeo imo.
Avoid French unless you like driving 1 litre courtesy cars every few months :grin:
Even if it was given to me as a company car i wouldn't have a new citreon. Would be in the dealer every week.
My company insist that I drive a car they are responsible for. I work for a company that has sites all over the country and I go to them all, but the regular ones are only 100-200 mile daily round trips.
For years I started with cr@p handed down cars that were uncomfortable and not pleasurable to drive. For this reason it has to offer more than just value. I went all out when I got to choose my first car and the Mazda 6 was a no brainer at the time. Like the Mondeo, I could drive it forever. It was high spec, comfortable, quick, handled VERY well, practical and most importantly, reliable.
I'm one of very few people left with a "full" fuel card so includes personal mileage. I'm taxed the same amount every month based on an over estimated usage figure, the cars engine size, MPG and CO2 output. It's pricey. Next four years projections say it's only going to go up, a lot.
(decent spec Vauxhalls and Korean manufacturers fail here).
I've been told my mileage will be going up considerably this year.
No matter how clever and "stylish" French cars get, they still haven't got the driving bit right, therefore I'm out.
With all this in mind I want to tone it down a bit, I have the golf and don't enjoy it, I need to make it so. (plus other non car related projects in my life deserve my money over a company car)
Would love to stay big but MQB Audi A3 is apparently bang on now in most of the area's it was lacking before. My only available option is Sportback which is fine by me. If my list is of old stock, dilemma.
@ Chuff, Yeah, I found them to be very economic when they weren't working. :grin:
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A3 is a nice car to Drive and looks pretty good, one of my colleagues has a 6 month old 1.6TDI with the S pack.
Having sat in it all the way up to Newton Aycliffe I can say it is not a nice car for long journeys, but much much better than the equivalent golf which is crashy and hard.
End of the day I would recommend you go for Comfort, lowest emissions and tax as you never know what will come in the next budget.