When buying a car there are 3 basic parameters to consider:
- Affordability
- Reliability
- Coolness
You can pick any two.
Of course affordability is relative and cool is subjective, but in my experience it simply isn’t possible to have all three.
UPDATE 05/05/08: I brought a new (used) car…a Skoda Fabia vRS, and I’m very happy with it.
It’s the best combination of affordability, reliability and coolness I could find. Skoda has a rather chequered history as a marque, but there’s no denying they are making really solid cars these days (2 of the top 5 in the Top Gear 2006 survey).
It’s a 1.9ltr Turbo Diesel so it gets great mileage, which at 4-5ltr/100km is down to hybrid territory. But of course that assumes very moderate driving, which is not necessarily a safe assumption…the turbo charged 1.9ltr engine delivers about 130bhp which is a hell of a lot for such a small car (based on the VW Polo platform), so it is fun to drive, and difficult to drive moderately :)
6 responses so far ↓
1 Scott // Apr 17, 2008 at 12:12 am
Far too true indeed! Never can win.
2 adham // Apr 17, 2008 at 1:22 am
mate, what about the corona! actually, it was not always the most reliable…
3 Charles // Apr 17, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Actually, the Corona has been very reliable and cheap…but not so much the cool ;)
(with all due respect of course)
4 Mike // Jun 27, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Hehe, reminds me a a saying we used to have in a design department I used to work in which shall remain nameless:
You can have things:
[1] Good
[2] Fast
[3] Cheap
Pick two.
:]
5 Charles // Jun 27, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Hey Mike, yeah I’ve heard that before too in software development circles…I was always troubled with the combo of cheap and good though, because it seemed to contradict another maxim that time = money :)
How’s things with you fella’s? Loving your Flickr stuff recently.
6 Mike // Jun 29, 2008 at 1:02 am
Yeah, it did over simplify things a bit.
Things here are good. Lizi is a studying machine and I am hatching plans for whatever comes next.
Have been taking less photos, but thats got something to do with the wintery darkness down here.
How are you kids?
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