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I've just opted out of the company car scheme for the 1st time in 8 years, 6 points and an accident, so..........
1. I was originally going for a civic type R at 17,500 quid plus 1600 insurance. But........
I wasn't that keen on the looks. The ZR looks much better, and yes I could have gone for the Seat or even the Renault Clio 170, but my mother in law gets employee discount cos my father in law worked for them before he passed away, so I got the ZR for 13270 including metallic, kenwood upgrade and passenger airbag, AND I GOT A YEARS FREE INSURANCE AS WELL. I saw a civic type r this morning and yes it does 0-60 half a second quicker and yeas it does 13mph more top end, but I saved 6 grand. AND I think that the ZR looks sexier.
All my mates love it and so far I've had it a day and 3 people have wanted to race me, but I'm too old for all that............
2. If you look in the photo there is a peugeot 406. well, that geezers wife has a lotus esprit, S4S I think. And my mate up the road has a dax cobra with a 5.3 daimler engine in it.
But........the lotus costs 4 grand a year to maintain, service and insure. She just lost it on a bend and dinked the frond. 12 grand to fix it. The cobra breaks down, and it leaks, yeah its ok to show off but I think reliability and sensibility. In a 160 I hear ou say????
Matthew