00:00
I'll start, if you want. Pat, do you want to start? I'll start, all right.
00:04
He is now! He is now!
00:07
How's it going, guys? Welcome back to the Drivetalk podcast, episode 70, I believe.
00:15
70, it is. I can't believe the last episode we missed out all the jokes on 69. I can't believe that.
00:22
Ah, yes. Or we could get something in this one and backdate them.
00:27
While we're talking about that, I think we are about 350 subscribers away from 10,000 subscribers on YouTube
00:36
and about 450 followers away from 10,000 followers or friends on Instagram.
00:42
So if you're not subscribed and you don't follow us on Instagram, then please do.
00:47
We also have a Facebook page, which is now outshining both of those with over 15,000 friends, followers.
00:55
Is it really 15,000?
00:56
15,000. We started that less than a year ago, so Facebook is going really well.
01:01
Hey, Joe, can we not just buy some followers?
01:05
We could do. Yeah, I mean, it seems like the way forward at the moment is just by fakery.
01:13
There is a whole, I think we need to, there's another podcast talking about the state of all industries and fake numbers.
01:23
I think we'll leave it until that episode.
01:26
Yeah. Yeah, we don't want to get you talking about that, mate, because this episode will be about four hours long.
01:35
How's it going, guys?
01:36
So, yeah, good. Do you know what I'm most excited about in this episode?
01:40
It's finding out AmiGate. Where are we? Where's the next thing?
01:45
So we're going to have a chat with Pat about the Ami and get the latest details on that.
01:51
We're going to have a chat about Monterey Car Week, but also in this episode,
01:55
we have set ourselves another car finding challenge based on the affordability of new cars.
02:03
And we've given ourselves three different monthly budgets for a car finance plan.
02:11
And let's see what we've come up with.
02:14
It was £250 a month, £500 a month, and then was it £750, I think?
02:23
Yeah, and that was all based on a theoretical, you know, six to ten thousand miles PCP and a 10% deposit.
02:31
So, you know, the standard like you see in the windows when you go shopping for cars or you're looking for cars.
02:35
So I'm very much looking forward to seeing because I'm feeling going to lose this one.
02:39
I might have won the last challenge with my Lotus Electra,
02:43
but I think I might lose this one.
02:46
I don't know, you might be able to get a Lotus Electra at £750 a month.
02:48
Can you on a PCP these days?
02:50
I know, yeah, maybe less than that.
02:51
Maybe it could be in the £250 a month one.
02:54
Can't give them away.
02:56
So come on, Pat, we need to know about the Ami.
02:59
Should we do a quick recap in case anyone's tuning in for the first time on their Ami gate?
03:05
Give us a very brief potted history about your Citroen Ami.
03:10
What is it? When did you buy it?
03:12
And why is it an issue?
03:13
Talking of cheap PCPs and can't give them away.
03:17
I bought a Citroen Ami because they couldn't give them away.
03:21
They did a PCP deal on them where, for me at least, it was £0 down as a deposit on a PCP
03:28
and £62.78 a month.
03:31
And I thought that was the best thing that ever happened to me.
03:33
And so far, it's actually been away for longer that I've owned it.
03:38
How many days have you actually had it parked downstairs?
03:42
It was delivered almost exactly a month ago.
03:44
If I actually go, look, it was delivered on the 16th of July.
03:48
And I send them an email with about issues exactly a month today.
03:53
It got collected, I think, on the Monday of the next week, or at least the next week.
03:58
And yeah, I haven't got it back yet.
04:00
See, it had it like three days or something.
04:04
Yeah, I probably had it like, I'd say I was in there, but like about a week.
04:09
And it's been away for three weeks.
04:11
So what was wrong with it, mate?
04:12
Was it a bit, you know, a bit pony?
04:19
It arrived rusty and looking three years old because it turns out, as we found out,
04:25
that it was three years old.
04:27
It'd been sat at a port in Sheerness, which I should correct as in Kent, not in Essex.
04:31
For some reason, I just assumed it was in Essex, but no, it's in Kent.
04:35
Yeah, the car turned up seven miles on the clock, but rusty bolts,
04:38
rusty wheels, damaged wheels as well.
04:42
Just in bad condition, you know, bird poo all over the vehicle.
04:44
And as a new car experience, obviously, I've got a brand new car registered
04:48
to me as first owner, seven miles on the clock.
04:51
It just wasn't the expectation that I had for a new car experience
04:54
and kind of irrelevant of the price point of the car because it was really cheap.
04:58
It was, you know, circa four thousand five hundred pound
05:01
RRP, as it were, on this on this finance deal.
05:05
I was still kind of a bit disappointed.
05:06
And so my principal back to Citroen was simply present the car back to me
05:10
as if it's brand new.
05:12
I don't care how you get there.
05:13
Here are a list of my concerns and issues and just bring it back to me brand new.
05:17
I thought that was quite an easy ask.
05:20
It's two window bolts.
05:21
I could just go by it being Q four wheels that are probably 30 quid each.
05:25
Right. They're just steel wheels. They're nothing special.
05:28
Some new tires, which should have come on the car anyway.
05:30
I mean, as we discussed before, kind of slightly flat.
05:33
I think they're under inflated by eight PSI sat for three years.
05:37
Indirect sunlight is not how you store tires.
05:40
It's not the way that the tire should be preserved and presented.
05:44
And obviously that becomes then a real safety concern as well.
05:47
And also for the car to just come back clean and look lovely.
05:50
Sounds like a big ass.
05:51
That I mean, what do you reckon, Joe?
05:54
Buying a new car and wanting it to, I don't know, be delivered like a new car.
06:00
Yeah, it's a bit of a liberty take.
06:02
Mate, I don't know.
06:03
I can't believe what a terrible customer you are.
06:07
So talking of customers, customer service has now been enacted.
06:11
I've got to a customer service specialist.
06:14
So away from the AMI team themselves.
06:16
And I think the last time we had an update was that they had kind of said
06:21
that they will fix all these issues and we wait to hear back and receive the car back.
06:25
Since then, a few of the issues, they've kind of tried to avoid fixing.
06:31
And I don't know if it's because I'm just a persistent customer,
06:34
obviously because I made them aware of the podcast that we've done.
06:37
Or like why my issues have been now escalated and will hopefully be almost fully resolved.
06:43
But the biggest thing that they kind of not refuse to but were avoiding fixing
06:49
was the rusty breakups.
06:51
And so that obviously then protrudes through the front wheels.
06:53
And so as much as they replaced the wheels and tires,
06:56
and they replaced the bolts in the windows,
06:58
the photos they sent back to me,
07:00
the second or third time of saying the car was done,
07:03
was that you could still see this rust through the front center of the wheels.
07:08
And so my point was, I understand that maybe, and Joe,
07:11
you can speak on your BMW experience here.
07:13
I appreciate that might not affect performance,
07:17
but it still doesn't look like a brand new vehicle.
07:18
Like brand new vehicles should not be or even nearly new vehicles
07:21
should not be delivered with visible rust.
07:24
If they go rusty after six months because of where I live
07:27
or because of the terrible materials, it is what it is, right?
07:30
That's just a reflection of the product.
07:32
But or your environment.
07:34
But like for it to, again, for you to, for Citroen to be happy
07:37
to present a car looking brand new, but with visible rust.
07:41
Because I think this, yeah, I think it was two or three times
07:43
they sent me photos and said, your car is done.
07:46
Are you happy with it?
07:48
Like we can send it back to you.
07:50
And both times I had to say no,
07:51
the first time they hadn't changed the window bolts,
07:54
which I feel like was like the most obvious orange bit of rust on the car.
07:58
The second time they hadn't replaced those front hubs.
08:01
I've since had a kind of an off the record on the record phone call
08:04
with Citroen where the woman explained to me
08:06
that she was obviously could understand
08:08
and was also displeased about the condition of the vehicle
08:11
and that to give her some extra time
08:12
to then fix the final issues,
08:14
which for me was the the backlight on the screen
08:17
and for the brake hubs.
08:19
They've since agreed and they ordering in
08:21
as we record this tomorrow, the brake new brake hub should be fitted
08:25
and so that rust would then be absolved, we would hope.
08:28
However, the final point on this is the screen.
08:32
So I can overlay a picture of the screen.
08:34
It differs in different lights,
08:36
but the main thesis of this is that on the left hand side,
08:39
the screen is very bright as it should be
08:41
and it shows the battery kind of level and the range.
08:45
And the further you go to the right
08:46
where it's got the drive neutral reverse
08:48
and it has obviously part of the speedo is dimmer,
08:52
like noticeably dimmer,
08:53
particularly at night when obviously that contrast
08:56
you would see on a screen like that would be most prevalent.
08:59
And so for me, my argument is the screen's broken.
09:02
One side is less dim than the other,
09:04
whether that's been stuck in the sun
09:06
because it's been at a port for a few years
09:08
or whether the screen was just produced broken.
09:11
I don't know, that's not really the point.
09:14
It's that I've got a screen that is dimmer
09:16
on one side than the other.
09:17
Now Citroen and the AMI team have gone to the port
09:20
and looked through all the other cars in the port
09:22
and they said this is a common feature
09:24
is their exact language.
09:26
A common feature that the right-hand side of the screen
09:29
is dimmer than the left-hand side.
09:31
And so for that reason, they won't replace it or fix it.
09:36
Was that an optional feature or was that that comes standard?
09:40
Yeah, I don't remember ticking that box.
09:41
Can I have a defective screen?
09:43
Yeah, that sounds like a great feature.
09:45
I'll have one of them.
09:48
Be as the best that so after all of this,
09:50
after many back and forths
09:51
and a lot of turn through with them
09:53
to kind of hammer home my point,
09:55
the one thing they won't replace is the screen.
09:58
And I get it again from an internal understanding
10:00
how these businesses work
10:01
and how hard it would be to replace that screen,
10:04
But from how they should represent their brand
10:06
and deliver a new vehicle.
10:08
If every one of the screens looks like that,
10:09
they're all broken.
10:10
That's called a recall.
10:11
That's not called a feature.
10:13
They should all be sent back
10:14
and they should all have new screens.
10:16
It shouldn't just be called a feature.
10:17
Pat, you're being very generous saying I get it
10:25
No, I don't care whether it's a seven grand car
10:29
The screen's not working properly.
10:33
I don't know if anyone from Citroen
10:35
is watching this, by the way,
10:37
please get in touch and explain
10:39
how you can possibly call that a feature.
10:41
And I think at one point
10:42
they said the rusty wheel hubs were a feature.
10:46
Yeah, they tried to wiggle out of
10:49
even in the heyday of Italian cars
10:51
rusting if like a drop of water fell on them
10:54
when Italy's government bought a whole bunch
10:56
of cheap steel from Russia
10:58
in exchange for debt
10:59
and that basically nearly bought
11:01
Even those cars were still delivered
11:03
without rust on them on day one.
11:05
They might have had rust on them
11:06
a couple of weeks later,
11:08
you don't expect to have rust on your car.
11:13
Well, Joe, you can speak about this
11:14
because was it your first
11:16
or one of your very first
11:17
BMW forum post was about rusty hubs, right?
11:20
Yeah, so I know BMW
11:22
and I'm sure a number of other manufacturers
11:24
have been through similar issues,
11:27
but back in like 2005, 2006, seven,
11:32
a lot of the E and F generation BMWs
11:36
all came with rusty or delivered
11:39
with rusty wheel hubs.
11:41
And the wheel hub that you see
11:42
on the majority of modern cars
11:44
is actually the is usually part
11:47
of the actual disc assembly.
11:49
So you see the hub part
11:51
of where the disc bolts on.
11:53
And for whatever reason, back then,
11:56
they just didn't cover that
11:58
out that sort of exposed metal.
12:00
And it was, I guess,
12:01
it's like strength and steel,
12:03
whatever it is for a disc
12:04
in any kind of paint
12:06
or anti-corrosive stuff.
12:10
So it would rust very quickly.
12:12
Obviously, especially after you've used
12:16
whatever kind of chemicals
12:17
on your wheels to clean them
12:18
because you use stronger
12:20
wheel cleaning stuff, right?
12:22
And I had like my 130i,
12:24
which at the time I brought it
12:26
as an approved car,
12:27
so it was four or five months old.
12:28
But when I picked up from the dealership,
12:30
they were like so rusty, the hubs.
12:32
And I spoke to the dealer at the time
12:34
and they're like, oh, yeah, okay.
12:36
Well, we can't do anything now,
12:38
And it was a bit like your story
12:41
And then after doing stuff,
12:42
putting stuff on baby BMW forum,
12:46
that it was a nationwide issue.
12:47
And all it wasn't just the one series.
12:49
It was a three series and maybe the five.
12:52
Any of the cars that use that disk, especially.
12:56
And BMW's answer was,
12:58
and I've probably got an email somewhere,
13:00
but their customer service at the time was,
13:05
the reason it was particularly bad on my 130i
13:08
was because of the alloy wheels
13:12
because they exposed,
13:14
because they're quite minimal
13:16
and they're really nice looking wheels.
13:19
Obviously, they weren't like a blocky alloy.
13:21
They're quite open.
13:24
they allowed you to see more inside of the wheel hub.
13:27
And that's why it looked particularly bad on my car.
13:29
Not the fact that the hubs were really rusty and orange.
13:34
The fact that I've got the most expensive one series
13:37
with the nicest wheels,
13:38
but they showed off the rust.
13:40
They showed off that feature.
13:43
So yeah, it's definitely an issue
13:45
that has been around for a long time.
13:50
Have they ever heard of Hammerite?
13:53
Well, they did the last thing they said to me,
13:57
and I think the last email they said was,
13:59
you could take it down to your local dealer
14:02
and they would paint your wheel hubs
14:06
but you had to pay for the paint,
14:08
which I think at the time,
14:10
nearly 20 years ago,
14:11
was about 250 quid.
14:13
So I could pay a dealer
14:15
to paint my hubs for 250 quid,
14:18
which is probably £500 in today's world.
14:20
I mean, it's just, you couldn't make it up.
14:22
But I think the situation thing,
14:24
it's interesting because
14:27
if you'd bought that from like Toys R Us or something,
14:30
or like, let's say,
14:31
if we knew it was a toy
14:33
that was that you could use legally as an Ami,
14:37
we probably wouldn't be sitting here
14:41
as aggressively talking about it
14:43
over three or four podcasts.
14:45
But I think the fact that it's got a sitch and badge on it,
14:47
and I've seen someone's comment recently
14:49
on the most recent Ami Update podcast,
14:52
someone said, well, seriously guys,
14:54
or Patrick, what do you expect?
14:57
It's a five, you didn't buy it from a dealer,
15:00
it's a five grand car, blah, blah.
15:03
But as we've all said,
15:04
that doesn't matter,
15:05
it's being sold to you as a brand new product
15:08
from a manufacturer.
15:11
if you're going to put your name behind a product,
15:15
I don't know where it's assembled,
15:16
but of course it's not going to be up to the same level
15:19
as a Citroen real car.
15:25
But you're putting a name on it
15:26
and you're selling it as a new product.
15:28
So that's your problem.
15:30
You know, it's not my problem or Pat's problem.
15:33
And I think that's what it all stems down to is,
15:36
yeah, it's a bargain.
15:37
And we started off by saying that
15:39
before you picked out what a bargain it is.
15:40
My God, I wanted one.
15:43
Do we want one now?
15:48
And I think we all know what manufacturers traditionally do
15:52
when they have a glut of cars they can't sell
15:54
that are beyond the traditional time frames
15:57
of delivering a new car.
15:58
So you just pre-register them.
15:59
You just pre-register them
16:00
and you give them out to dealerships
16:02
or they go out into the network somewhere
16:04
or they end up at auctions.
16:05
And then you just have a few Amis out there
16:08
with zero miles on them or five miles on them
16:11
that are all going for slightly below list.
16:13
But what a great deal
16:14
because you're getting it for seven
16:16
when it's worth eight, you know, with 12 months later.
16:20
But clearly, and I know I've spoken to a few brands
16:23
and I won't mention their names,
16:24
a quite a few brands like holding back
16:29
models of their vehicles that haven't been sold new
16:33
that may have already been imported into the country
16:35
because the problem they have is obviously
16:37
if you put a glut of cars onto the market
16:38
and the demand isn't there, the price drops
16:40
because everybody's trying to sell their car.
16:42
And I'm sure you'll see this with Amis now.
16:43
When I bought my Amis for four and a half thousand new,
16:46
people are selling used Amis two, three years old
16:49
for four and a half to five thousand pounds
16:51
because they're an eight thousand pound car.
16:52
So that's about where the market was.
16:54
And now it's like my guaranteed final value is three and a half grand.
16:58
And so why would I buy a three year old one
17:01
when I've got a brand new one for them?
17:03
So the whole market's going to have to drop to reflect that.
17:06
And I have recently seen that Amis are actually now sold out.
17:09
So this glut of cars that they clearly had left over
17:14
Citroen have done the right thing in terms of
17:17
they have extended this PDI as I understand it.
17:20
And they've actually sent emails to everybody
17:22
because I'm going to, I mean, now and then Amis Club
17:25
is going on Facebook.
17:26
And so I'm not the only person that's arrived
17:29
with rusty wheels, rusty bolts and had issues with them,
17:32
which is good to see that I'm not just a lone case
17:35
But also the vehicles, people that are ordering them
17:38
that ordered them in July at the same time as me
17:40
are having emails saying that their car is delayed
17:43
four to eight weeks because they're going through
17:47
I would hope that they're replacing rusty parts up front
17:49
so people get cars delivered correctly.
17:52
I know other people had issues we discussed before
17:54
with belts as well and that they're getting
17:56
tensioned or replaced or inspected at least.
17:59
And so Citroen clearly have taken this seriously
18:02
on that side that they are now addressing
18:04
those issues up front so people get cars delivered
18:08
But yeah, like I said, from the start, they were
18:10
very like, oh yeah, of course, we'll happily fix
18:12
those or look at those issues.
18:14
And then the more and more I got down the line,
18:15
the more and more invasive they have got
18:17
about fixing what are obviously, if you were to
18:20
list the items from most expensive to cheapest
18:22
or easiest to hardest to replace,
18:25
they really start arguing the further down
18:28
And like I said, my whole thing from the
18:30
beginning, and I've been very transparent about
18:31
the podcast and the fact that we're just
18:33
going to say what happens here because
18:36
we can only be generalistic in this.
18:38
We can only tell the truth.
18:39
I just want a new car delivered.
18:41
And if that is going to take you three weeks
18:43
and me to waste a lot of time arguing with you,
18:46
But at the end of the day, it won't be my brand
18:48
and image that's reflecting negatively
18:50
and this is yours and you get to choose.
18:52
They actually did offer the car back to me
18:54
before the break hubs and the screen
18:55
because like I said, a few times they sent
18:57
me photos and said, the car's ready.
18:59
I actually accepted the car back.
19:00
I just said, yeah, sure, just send it back.
19:02
I can't bother with all this back and forth.
19:03
It's not, it's an AMI, it's 60 quid a month.
19:06
It doesn't, I know it doesn't affect performance.
19:09
It doesn't matter that much.
19:10
I'll just update the podcast and let them know.
19:12
And that's when I got a phone call from the person
19:14
who worked for the customer service team.
19:17
And she said, give me another 48 hours.
19:19
That was two weeks, not last week the week before.
19:25
So we're like eight days or something ago.
19:27
And although I know the work is apparently
19:30
being completed tomorrow,
19:31
obviously then the car needs to get back to me.
19:33
So hopefully by the end of this week,
19:34
I have it back, but they were then,
19:37
it was now on them to be proactive.
19:40
But they seem to avoid the screen question
19:41
until I asked them again.
19:42
And we said, no, the screen is definitely
19:44
a common feature across all of them.
19:46
You're cutting out.
19:46
Pass internet's going.
19:48
Your internet's died.
19:50
Well, it's going to be interesting to see his story.
19:52
And I mean, I'll just carry this on by saying that,
19:57
a guy called Mark Tiff,
19:58
who runs a YouTube channel called Real World Plumbing,
20:01
he's been throughout, he's a fan of the pod.
20:04
He came to our live Gaffrey and Machine that time.
20:08
So he actually was one of the guys that
20:13
bought a AMI off the back of our initial video, obviously.
20:18
But then I, as soon as I had the bad news,
20:22
I updated him and he was like,
20:23
no, he said it doesn't matter even though
20:25
it's going to come with issues.
20:26
Because as an advertising tool for him and his business,
20:29
he said it's worth its weight in gold,
20:32
covering it, not PPFing, wrapping it in cool running.
20:37
But it'd be interesting to...
20:38
Well, firstly, I've said to Mark,
20:40
it'd be great to get him on the pod one day
20:41
and just talk about his world,
20:42
because it's such a different world to what we're in
20:45
and YouTube and stuff.
20:46
But also, it would be great to get an update
20:49
on how his car was delivered.
20:52
And if he ends up going through
20:54
similar sort of issues as Patrick.
20:57
But yeah, so hopefully not too many others
21:00
went out and bought one off the back of the initial video.
21:04
I would be all right.
21:05
There's five, six, two to a month.
21:07
Well, it looks like Pat's like falling off the end of the earth.
21:10
Look, we can carry on.
21:12
Have you got a horrible still what came on your screen?
21:15
Yeah, it doesn't look, it's not very...
21:18
Oh, no, he's back again.
21:23
Well, the next thing we're going to talk about
21:25
was Monterey car week.
21:28
Because it's done it again.
21:30
And I was talking before we started recording.
21:32
Every year, I always think,
21:34
I'd love to go to Monterey car week
21:36
and then totally forget about it.
21:38
And then you just start seeing other
21:41
kind of creators out there and post comments doing like,
21:43
oh, I've missed it again.
21:45
And I think it's one of those events.
21:47
I know we talked to Pat about it last year on the pod.
21:51
Very much one of those events.
21:52
I think you need to go with someone who's been before
21:55
or with a brand that's going to kind of take you
21:59
to all the different places and stuff.
22:01
Because it seems massive, doesn't it?
22:03
There's always different areas.
22:05
And it's one of those things where there's
22:07
lots of cool things happening.
22:09
But I think you kind of need to know
22:11
where the cool things are happening and when.
22:13
So otherwise, you just...
22:15
I'd be in the area and I'd miss everything.
22:17
I'd be sat in the hotel room and wouldn't see anything.
22:21
But yeah, with that, there's been some cool cars.
22:24
You quite like the Gordon Murray.
22:26
I can't believe they're doing a back date of a McLaren F1, basically.
22:31
I mean, a lot of the super high-end ridiculous stuff
22:36
doesn't really interest me.
22:37
I can appreciate it, but it doesn't interest me
22:39
because I know I'll never be able to afford it.
22:42
And it's just so expensive that even if I could afford it,
22:45
you know, would I go out and drive it hard or...
22:48
But there's a few...
22:49
You know, there are some diamonds in the rough,
22:53
Does that make sense?
22:55
Like that, that when I saw it, I mean, it's just...
23:00
It is in a modern interpretation of the F1, isn't it?
23:04
It's beautiful and it looks...
23:07
It's just the perfect...
23:08
Everything about it and it's no surprise
23:10
because it's the same guy.
23:11
You know, it's Gordon Murray, what, 25 years on?
23:17
Whatever it's been.
23:19
I mean, that I would have that in an heartbeat.
23:21
But I wouldn't because they made five
23:23
and they were all commissioned for one customer, I think.
23:25
Like it's like a special operations, right?
23:28
Yeah, the thing is though, right, you look at it and you go,
23:30
well, for me, the McLaren F1 is perfect anyway.
23:33
I just think I've always...
23:35
It's always been my favourite car ever made.
23:38
That and the F40 probably.
23:40
But I think the McLaren F1, there's something about it.
23:43
So you take what already is a fairly perfect car
23:46
and then make it even more lovely
23:48
is quite a special thing.
23:49
And could probably only have been done by Gordon Murray.
23:54
But yeah, no, very, very cool.
23:57
Yeah, it does make you just feel really poor.
24:01
I think we need to get out there at some point
24:03
because it seems looking again on the internet at people there.
24:07
Like you said, as long as you've got someone
24:08
that can point you in the right direction
24:10
and give you the like, you need to be here
24:12
at three o'clock on Wednesday or whatever.
24:14
Everything seems quite accessible.
24:16
Apart from like, I know Pat was dying
24:19
to talk about his quail cap that he's got on.
24:21
I'm sure there's certain areas and places
24:23
you can't get into.
24:25
But just those morning drives that I know Pat and Roger Chan
24:28
went on like, on that sort of peninsula bit.
24:31
I mean, that to me would just be, you know,
24:33
park up and just watch that traffic come through
24:36
and the ridiculous cars in that beautiful setting.
24:40
I know Roger Chan's over there at the moment.
24:44
It would be one of those events though.
24:45
I'd love to go to, but I'd actually,
24:47
I'd like to go there and just not make any content
24:49
and just go and enjoy it.
24:51
You know, if you go, you know,
24:52
you only go to some of these events
24:53
and you know you've got to make content.
24:55
It almost distracts from making content.
24:58
I mean, boxing gas was a classic example.
25:00
I had a plan to do like a vlog of boxing gas.
25:05
And I got in my car to drive home
25:07
and I'd been in my car about 10 minutes
25:08
and suddenly realized I forgot to film it.
25:13
I never took the camera out the car.
25:14
I was like, oh man, I was having too much of a good time.
25:19
And then they had the other, the other nuts car
25:21
is that Ferrari SP3.
25:25
It was like black and yellow livery
25:27
and the black and the yellow meet down the spine of the car
25:31
And that auctioned off for charity
25:33
for like $26 million or something.
25:39
It was all for charity, charity.
25:41
But yeah, even so, that's a,
25:43
that's a lot of wedge.
25:45
There is a lot of wedge.
25:47
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't contribute or bid on that one.
25:50
Did you not bid on that one?
25:52
I thought about it, but yeah.
25:54
I mean, I didn't, oh, don't talk to me about ad revenue.
25:58
Ad revenue at the moment.
26:02
YouTube, honestly, and I'm not exaggerating
26:04
and I don't expect people to get their violins out.
26:07
But in the past 12 months,
26:10
YouTube ad revenue for the same amount of views
26:13
and timed hours watched has absolutely collapsed.
26:18
I reckon it's not even,
26:20
it's about a third of what it was 12 months ago.
26:25
And everyone I speak to,
26:28
like I was talking to Raz about it,
26:30
anyone in our space is just like,
26:32
what has happened to YouTube?
26:35
It has absolutely died.
26:37
And it's quite scary.
26:39
And also videos, they just,
26:41
a lot of the videos I put out
26:43
and they'll start off quite strong and then just stop.
26:46
And I know that's been a case for a while
26:47
with a lot of YouTube stuff, but it's just,
26:51
I don't know, it's getting a little bit,
26:53
yeah, I wouldn't, I'd be lying if I didn't say,
26:56
I'm a little bit worried about it because it's,
27:01
yeah, there was a time where you could just
27:03
about survive on ad revenue, but not anymore.
27:07
And that's why we're grateful to have Micheliners,
27:10
I know we haven't mentioned them yet,
27:11
but people like Micheliners as channel sponsors and
27:15
because you just need it now.
27:18
There's no other way of surviving.
27:20
And Facebook revenue is the same.
27:21
That's probably worse, I think.
27:23
Facebook revenue for me,
27:25
Similar amount of views.
27:25
If it's probably down,
27:27
I'm getting, this may be,
27:28
I'm getting 10 to 15% of what I was 12 months ago.
27:33
I mean, the amount of money,
27:34
the money comes into my bank account
27:36
and I'm like, what's that for?
27:38
And then you go, oh, it's Facebook.
27:40
Wow, there's a zero missing off the end.
27:42
No, that's Facebook.
27:44
Yeah, it's like, oh, I just refunded something that,
27:46
if I just sent, if I returned something,
27:48
it was really not worth returning.
27:50
Oh no, that was my Facebook income for the last month.
27:54
And I think that's,
27:56
I know this isn't the subject of the podcast,
27:58
but I've done a few kind of ad integrations recently
28:02
or talked about other ad integrations on the channel
28:05
and people moan, always bloody advert.
28:07
I had a video go out last week,
28:08
it was a paid promotion for a dashcam company.
28:11
Oh, it's bloody longest advert ever.
28:13
Yeah, and you watched it for free
28:15
and that's, that is how,
28:17
how I'm able to make these videos.
28:21
Otherwise I can't do it.
28:23
I can't just, you know,
28:24
it's not like the old days
28:25
where you could just have ad revenue.
28:26
You have to have placed ads and integrations
28:29
and sponsored videos every now and again
28:31
and great brand partners that can work with.
28:33
Otherwise it just doesn't work
28:34
and we're not all as lucky as Matt Armstrong,
28:37
who's just watched his latest video this morning.
28:41
He's done, it's not even been out 12 hours,
28:43
he's done nearly two million views.
28:44
I'm like, oh my God.
28:47
And it was brilliant, obviously anyway.
28:51
He had about five integrations in that, actually.
28:54
Yeah, yeah, he was here.
28:55
There was various, including,
28:58
unfortunately, one of those, what do you call them?
29:01
The reason, are the car ambulance chases?
29:04
Yeah, I'm sorry, but yeah.
29:06
He doesn't need that in his video.
29:09
That's, yeah, that's a bit, not great, seeing that.
29:11
But anyway, anyway.
29:12
Don't get me on my subject.
29:14
So, here's the segue.
29:16
Instead of talking about earning money,
29:19
shall we talk about how you can spend some money?
29:24
So, the PCP finance challenge.
29:29
I might have bent the rules a little bit on this one.
29:34
No, I've just, but it was part of the conversation.
29:38
Are we going to go low first?
29:40
Yeah, we'll go low first.
29:42
I haven't minored around about those figures.
29:45
You know, we're giving some, they're not,
29:47
they're not obviously trying to find something
29:49
for exactly 250 a month or whatever it is.
29:52
So, I've kind of got a low, a medium, and a high.
29:56
It's a shame that Pat, yeah, we have,
29:59
we've basically, Pat's just messaged me in a,
30:01
or messaged us in the chat to say that,
30:03
well, he's not, he's no longer part of this podcast,
30:07
Oh, we can't come back on it, I suppose, can he?
30:11
So, so we're not going to get to here, Pat's,
30:15
but we've, I've got a few, you've got a few.
30:19
Essentially, we, I know we've had a lot of doom and gloom
30:23
on the podcast over the past couple of years,
30:26
talking about, yeah, just cars costing an arm and a leg,
30:30
which they do depreciation.
30:33
That's something we're going to focus on in the next podcast,
30:35
but not depreciation, something different to depreciation.
30:39
But we thought, let's, let's try and be a bit upbeat on this podcast
30:43
and talk about something positive.
30:45
And in fact, when I was researching it last night and this morning,
30:49
Lou was like, so what are you talking about in the podcast?
30:51
I was like, oh, we're going to talk about like good finance deals.
30:54
And she was like, yay, positive.
31:00
So, so, but, but yeah, there are some, there are some deals to be had
31:05
and it's not all doom and gloom.
31:08
And so, yeah, so we've, we've set ourselves some, some monthly costs
31:14
with a 10% deposit, which is about average for normal finance.
31:18
And yeah, let's see, as, as always,
31:21
Pat and I have got no idea what we've chosen
31:23
because we've not told each other because it's all part of,
31:26
well, the enjoyment for our own sake, I guess, as well.
31:29
So, Ped, do you want to start with, with your one?
31:33
Well, yes, I've got, so I, I've got a car for the first one.
31:39
I've got two different options of buying that car,
31:42
both on a monthly basis,
31:43
which I thought would be interesting to kind of talk about.
31:45
Yeah. Oh, and first up, it's, it is an electric car.
31:51
But I think it's the coolest electric car that you can currently buy.
31:57
So, let me put it into the, into the chat box for you.
32:02
So, I have looked at some ways to finance a Renault 5.
32:09
And the first one, I've gone on to Carwow,
32:12
because they do like a, a, a checker.
32:17
Now, the challenge with the Renault 5 is,
32:19
there is a fairly big range of price from like low 20s
32:23
to about 30 grand depending on the size of battery
32:26
and trim and all that kind of stuff.
32:29
But the one I've looked at is the, is 23,000 pound car.
32:34
So, it is the smaller battery, I think.
32:38
But it works out at 224 pounds a month.
32:43
Well, it doesn't with 10% deposit, Ped.
32:47
This is the thing I wanted to talk about, right?
32:50
Is, there's a couple of things.
32:52
So, it's not a 10% deposit.
32:54
It's more like a, well, it's 4,200 pound deposit.
32:59
So, it's nearly 20% deposit.
33:01
I didn't think a 4 grand deposit was actually that horrible.
33:07
I thought the APR at 5.9% was pretty good.
33:13
And then an optional final payment of just shy of 11,000 quid.
33:18
So, you are paying on a 23,000 pound car.
33:26
What are we talking there?
33:27
An amount of credit and 23 and a half grand, I suppose.
33:32
So, I looked at that and went, okay, well, it gets you into the car for 20,
33:35
or 225 pounds a month.
33:38
If you went a higher spec, there's also a grant on there as well,
33:41
because there's now this new EV grant
33:44
that you can claim back on some cars, isn't there?
33:46
Which we talked about on the pod a few weeks ago.
33:50
The other option is, and let me put this one in, same car,
33:56
but now, instead of a PCP,
34:01
I thought, what about looking at a lease deal?
34:06
Now, I don't, I must admit, I don't, the lease deal,
34:09
is that business only, or is that?
34:11
No, this is a personal lease.
34:17
So, really cool green, Renault 5.
34:22
Now, this came out at just over 200 pounds a month.
34:29
But a lease deal, what happens at the end of it?
34:31
You have to buy it.
34:34
You give the car back.
34:35
Basically, but then, so, again,
34:38
so depending on what the lease deal is,
34:41
so some lease deals will include things like
34:47
So, you're really just, you're just renting the car.
34:50
And at the end of the term, this is a 36 month term,
34:54
you just get the car back and go and get a different lease.
34:59
So, I'm not an expert on leasing, by the way,
35:02
and I've never leased a car,
35:03
but quite often when I'm looking at my PCP deals,
35:07
all you're really doing is trying to,
35:09
I don't know about with your ones,
35:10
is trying to kind of maintain your deposit
35:13
so that when you get to the end of your PCP,
35:15
you can, you've retained your deposit in the car,
35:19
and you can then use that to put the deposit down
35:20
on another car and pay a monthly payment on a PCP deal
35:24
for two, three, four years,
35:25
and just keep changing cars.
35:29
The challenge, or the difference here
35:30
is often with a lot of these lease deals
35:32
is you don't actually have a down payment,
35:34
you just pay a monthly payment.
35:36
It might cost you a little bit more per month,
35:38
but it could well include things like
35:43
well, tyres servicing.
35:45
The only thing you have to be really careful of
35:47
is there's a mileage limit,
35:51
and then there's an extra charge.
35:54
For every mile you go over the mileage limit,
35:57
you'll have like a per mile charge,
35:58
so you have to be a bit careful of that.
36:00
But that's at 6,000 miles a year.
36:03
So that's the other thing, a talking point.
36:05
I know we said around 10,000 miles a year.
36:09
The reason I put that in is that I think
36:11
when people are doing these either PCP or lease deals,
36:15
it's super tempting to put a lower miles per year number in
36:20
to get the mile or to get the monthly down,
36:23
but then you can't use the car as much as you like.
36:26
No, and even you've fallen foul a bit for that
36:29
in your early days with your Boxster.
36:31
Yeah, because then you end up being that guy, right?
36:35
I mean, I'd probably went before...
36:39
I've got access to lots of cars now,
36:40
but I easily do 12,000 to 15,000 miles a year quite regularly.
36:46
If I was only using one car,
36:49
so if this is the only car you're going to buy,
36:55
you need to make sure that your mileage limit,
36:58
and it's also the same for whatever insurance policy you take out.
37:02
Your insurance policy is likely to have a mileage limit per year,
37:06
and that needs to be the accurate number as well.
37:11
Well, just looking, actually, that lease deal that you said,
37:14
that you can easily just go from 6,000,
37:16
so it's 202 pounds a month at 6,000.
37:19
If you bring out 10,000 miles a year, they increase it to 214.
37:23
So it's not a massive difference,
37:25
and you think you're paying an extra 12 pound a month
37:27
for that piece of mind.
37:30
And actually the initial payment,
37:32
which I think in lease deals,
37:33
they call it the initial payment,
37:35
but actually it's more,
37:36
you look at it in another way, it's like your deposit.
37:39
Oh, there we go, two and a half grand.
37:41
Two and a half grand, which is about 10%, right?
37:43
So, I mean, that's amazing value.
37:48
That's a shed load of car for that.
37:50
I mean, yes, it's not for everyone.
37:51
It only does a couple of hundred miles a range,
37:54
but in terms of affordable EVs,
37:56
everyone's always bitching about electric cars being too expensive.
38:00
That's one of the best electric cars you can buy.
38:02
I think it looked bigger for 50 quid a week.
38:07
No wonder they're selling them faster
38:08
than they can bloody make them.
38:10
Yeah, and on top of anything,
38:11
the only reason I would have one is because they look cool.
38:15
Yeah, and I went on this,
38:18
I thought, well, quite a fancy one, actually.
38:19
So I'd either have it in yellow or blue.
38:22
Blue, a bit like Tony's done.
38:23
So Tony, their TRL deals, Mr. Tony Lewis.
38:27
He's ordered one with blue and then gold trim,
38:30
so he's going to make it look a little bit like his Clio Williams.
38:37
If he sticks to that,
38:38
because I think the last time I talked to him,
38:39
he said he might be cancelling it because he's worried about...
38:42
I think they put the prices up recently.
38:44
I don't know, that doesn't say that, so I don't know.
38:48
250 quid will get you a Renault 5,
38:51
whether you lease it or PCP it.
38:54
Because I guess the PCP,
38:55
you have got the option at the end to refinance the balloon
38:59
or pay off the balloon and keep the car.
39:01
Yes, whereas at least you don't.
39:04
Yeah, but let's be realistic.
39:06
How many people do that?
39:07
How many people do that?
39:09
And also, if you think about it sensibly,
39:11
I'm sure if you really like that car that you're in,
39:15
you could then buy it.
39:17
You could buy a three-year-old one.
39:20
There'd be loads of them online or whatever.
39:22
But yeah, if you're buying an electric car
39:25
and you're having it three years,
39:26
I very much doubt at the end of those three years,
39:28
you're going to want to buy that car.
39:31
Yeah, but that's interesting.
39:34
The only thing I would say is a good friend of mine
39:37
that we know, Andrew, from The Fish,
39:38
he had a Model Y Tesla on,
39:42
it was on one of these salary sacrifice schemes,
39:44
which are effectively a lease deal, right?
39:46
And when he gave the car back,
39:48
they were super picky about its condition.
39:50
And they were like, oh, there's a scratch here
39:52
and a scratch there.
39:53
And they started to try and charge for putting all
39:57
those things right.
39:58
So I think you just have to remember,
40:01
it is not your car, so you do have to look after it.
40:04
Because if you give it back in a shit state,
40:06
it's going to cost you.
40:08
I remember when I worked in the fashion industry
40:11
at Storm in London,
40:13
and I used to help a lot of the people
40:15
at Storm in the agency with cars,
40:17
they're like, oh, Joe, I'm looking for this
40:19
and looking for that.
40:19
And obviously that was before I worked in the car world,
40:21
but I was obsessed with them.
40:23
So I'd always be like, yeah, no worries.
40:25
And then I'd spend all night looking, researching.
40:28
And this one girl that I worked with,
40:31
she got herself like a nice one,
40:33
series BMW brand new on a three-year PCP.
40:37
And I didn't know, but during her three years,
40:40
she had two kids during that time
40:43
And the car was absolutely battered.
40:47
Like she obviously couldn't drive
40:48
because every panel had marks and scratches on it.
40:52
The dog had chewed in the back seat.
40:55
So like one of the bases of the back seat
40:57
was completely gone.
40:58
The headrests were missing or the baby.
41:02
The car was in a horrible state.
41:04
But she just assumed that at the end of those three years,
41:09
because at the start I'd said, right, PCP,
41:11
at the end of it, you could just hand the car back.
41:13
She took that literally.
41:14
She was like, oh, you could just hand it back in any state.
41:20
And of course, she handed it back and BMW,
41:22
I think she got charged about four grand
41:24
in total with bodywork damages.
41:26
Oh, and the car was only probably 20,000-odd pounds new.
41:30
So, but yeah, I mean, that's,
41:33
hopefully anyone watching and listening to this podcast
41:35
has the intelligence to understand that, yeah,
41:38
you've got to give these cars back
41:41
whether it's PCP or at least they've got to be,
41:43
you know, representable value of a condition rather.
41:51
Which BMW did you select for under 250 quid then?
41:59
There are no BMWs in my list at all, actually, which is...
42:03
You're feeling all right. Do you want to go and have a ride now?
42:05
Well, and I'm going to start with an electric car.
42:09
No! No, this is what's going on. Where's Joe?
42:14
Someone's abducted him.
42:16
That should open up.
42:17
Oh, no! Do you know what? That's so funny.
42:21
That's your spring.
42:23
I think, what was the car that was announced yesterday
42:26
that's just become the cheapest electric car on sale?
42:28
This was the cheapest electric car on sale.
42:30
Oh, is it the new BYD seal or something?
42:36
Dolphin or something crap.
42:38
Yeah, it's probably because you,
42:39
it's cheap because they give you one and then they pay you
42:42
to take pictures of them and put them on the...
42:43
Ha, ha, ha, ha, yeah.
42:48
Are you feeling all right, mate? You've chosen a Datcher.
42:51
So it's a Datcher, the full one we're looking at in this,
42:54
is a Datcher Spring Expression Electric 45,
42:58
which is basically the entry-level electric spring that they do.
43:01
Look at the price of that!
43:04
15, well, $14,995 is full retail price.
43:08
So, but you get a dealer deposit contribution of 2,250 quid,
43:14
which brings that down to what, about 12 and a half grand or something.
43:19
That's with a customer deposit of 1,500 quid, which is 10%.
43:24
Over 36 months and 10,000 miles,
43:28
you'll be paying £164 a month, which works out about 40 quid a week.
43:36
So, 0% APR as well?
43:40
So it's not substantially cheaper than what you've...
43:44
Well, what's interesting is your car lost...
43:48
What was it about your Renault 5 that you showed us?
43:50
Lost about 50% of its value in three years.
43:53
Whereas this, if you look at its optional final payment, it's 5,300.
43:58
So it loses two-thirds of its value.
44:01
So actually the monthly payments, when you look at it,
44:05
$164, that's not substantially cheaper than your 200 quid for the...
44:09
And that's why, it's because you're actually paying off...
44:12
Even at 0% APR, you're actually paying off more of the car
44:17
because it depreciates much quicker than the Renault 5, supposedly.
44:22
But still, 160 quid a month.
44:26
I mean, it makes Pat's Ami look expensive.
44:30
Yeah, yeah, 160 quid a month and you actually get the car to use it.
44:35
It doesn't have any...
44:36
I'm sure it does have some special thatcher features, but...
44:39
Well, to be honest, I'm a little bit of a thatcher fanboy,
44:44
but I mean, I haven't driven a Spring,
44:46
but I've had a really good look at one up close
44:48
and they're really good.
44:49
They look like a really cool car.
44:51
I like thatcher's kind of design language thing going on at the moment.
44:55
I just think their cars look cool.
44:57
I like them as a brand because they...
44:59
There's loads of...
45:00
If you and I only know this because of the next podcast we're doing,
45:06
I might well be thinking of a thatcher in that.
45:08
There's loads of little gadgets and add-ons and accessories you can collect.
45:14
Petroped approves this message.
45:16
Yeah, no, I like both of them.
45:18
There you go, guys.
45:19
If you're listening, if you've got a minimal budget
45:22
and you want a small electric car,
45:24
there's two brilliant offerings there, both under 215 quid a month.
45:32
All right, next one.
45:33
Take us up a level, Ped.
45:36
They're too expensive.
45:38
You can't afford though.
45:44
It's another electric car.
45:51
So the target monthly fee or monthly target was 500 pounds.
46:00
And I have exceeded that a little bit.
46:03
However, with 500 miles a year or something as well, probably.
46:08
It's a personal contract hire, so it's like a lease.
46:12
But it's a cool car.
46:15
Bear with me, caller.
46:16
Let me drop this into the little chat box.
46:28
Well, first thing to say is Pat has put...
46:31
Have you noticed in our group?
46:34
No, has he put the same one?
46:39
Pat's actually put the Arnic 5N.
46:41
So that's great that Pat's not in this chat.
46:47
What's the retail price in these now?
46:50
The old, they are like...
46:58
So it's a £4,000 deposit and £550 a month.
47:02
That's a personal contract high, not personal, not PCP.
47:07
Now, there is a downside to this.
47:11
And the downside is it's only 5,000 miles a year.
47:16
And you can't tweak that.
47:19
If you click the inquire now button,
47:21
I'm sure you could probably change that,
47:23
but it would change the numbers.
47:26
And that's over four years as well, I suppose.
47:30
Now, this is through the Richmond Motor Group.
47:35
There were a few other deals around,
47:36
but for me, I mean, I only know this
47:38
because I know a couple of people who bought an Ioniq 5N
47:41
on the back of me having that press car
47:44
what, nine, 12 months ago.
47:46
I took it to show a couple of mates
47:48
and they literally both ordered one that week.
47:55
They absolutely love the car.
47:56
And they are just mega, mega things.
47:59
But that, for 550 quid a month, that is a lot of car.
48:05
And the initial payment is four grand,
48:07
which is actually under, well, under 10%.
48:15
And I've just worked out that at 9 p.m.
48:17
So you do get excess, maybe you just pay,
48:19
maybe there are no sort of,
48:21
maybe you can't set the annual mileage,
48:23
you just have to pay 9 p.m.
48:25
I think with my calculations,
48:27
if you did 10,000 miles,
48:28
it's going to be an extra 45 quid.
48:33
So it's still well under 600 quid.
48:38
I mean, yeah, that's a, it is a great car.
48:41
I can't, yeah, I'm a big fan of that as well.
48:44
Jesus, what are we doing?
48:45
We're talking about too many electric cars, but yes.
48:47
Mate, can we, well, I was going to say,
48:48
can we capture this moment for history?
48:50
But we have because it's recorded.
48:56
All the Petroheads are now flocking away
48:57
from the podcast and leaving us in droves
48:59
because we're talking about electric cars.
49:01
But to be fair, for me,
49:03
they are I think the two best electric cars on sale today.
49:07
Well, actually the spring,
49:08
I wasn't thinking of the spring,
49:09
but the Renault 5 and the Onik 5.
49:12
And they are not silly money.
49:16
I know, let me just rephrase that.
49:18
550 pounds a month is a lot of money for a lot of people.
49:23
So I'm not going to, I'm not downplaying that,
49:25
but actually in the crazy world of car finance,
49:29
I thought that was pretty good.
49:35
So what BMW have you chosen with that?
49:39
You said you weren't going to,
49:40
you didn't have any BMWs.
49:44
But let's, so let me just,
49:46
see, I had a couple in this price point,
49:47
but I'm going to go with this one.
49:49
Because this is actually the one that,
49:52
if I had 500 pounds a month,
49:55
and I needed to go out and buy something new,
49:59
something that I would actually go out
50:01
and spend my hard-earned cash on,
50:04
this is what I would go out and buy.
50:06
Now hopefully if I send you this link,
50:18
It doesn't open it.
50:20
Oh no, yeah, hold on.
50:22
It's stinky about it.
50:24
Oh no, that's the wrong spec.
50:26
No, it's the wrong spec.
50:28
So if you go to the top,
50:30
next to the Octavia,
50:33
if you click on that and go down to VRS estate.
50:41
So I've chosen a Skoda Octavia estate VRS,
50:46
or VRS estate, I don't know which way to say.
50:48
I know we're both big fans of Skoda
50:51
and this particular car.
50:53
Now what's interesting with Skoda,
50:55
and I've noticed a few manufacturers are doing this,
50:59
is not only is there a PCP option
51:02
or personal contract hire or business contract hire,
51:06
there's also within personal contract hire,
51:13
there are two options at Skoda off at the moment.
51:16
And it's a little bit interesting,
51:18
because on the face of it,
51:20
you'd think, oh, well I'm going to go
51:22
the 0% option and £1,000 from Skoda.
51:26
But actually, in most of the specs that I've looked at,
51:31
it's actually better value and lower monthly,
51:34
if you go for the 6.4 APR,
51:38
and then Skoda give you £4,000 contribution to the car.
51:44
So the one that I worked out,
51:46
and I've written it down here
51:47
because I just want to make sure I bring it up,
51:48
so 10,000 miles a year, over 48 months,
51:52
£4,100 deposit, which is 10%.
51:56
Skoda then give you another £4,000,
51:59
and it works out £490 a month,
52:04
which again, if you went back five years,
52:08
or especially 10 years,
52:10
that's a lot of money to spend on an Octavia
52:15
on a monthly contract.
52:16
But actually, in today's world,
52:19
I think that's really, really reasonable.
52:22
I think that's one of the best cars VAG make.
52:26
Yeah, I understand.
52:27
Across the whole group, I think it's one of the best guys.
52:30
It's super practical.
52:32
I think they look great,
52:33
especially if they do some really nice colours as well.
52:36
They drive brilliantly.
52:37
Did they still do the manual or not?
52:38
Did they stop doing that?
52:40
I think the manual stopped now.
52:41
Yeah, I think the manual is a shame.
52:44
But just brilliant.
52:45
For that, that's mega.
52:47
Yeah, and if you actually went personal contract hire,
52:51
so using your, it's actually,
52:54
with just under a 10% deposit, over 36 months,
52:58
it's actually, and this is with 10,000 miles,
53:03
it's actually £414 a month.
53:06
So it's closer to £400 a month, over 36 months.
53:12
There you go, compare that to that S5,
53:15
and the price of that S5, which would you have?
53:17
Yeah, well, I'd have this every day of the week.
53:22
I think it's a much better car.
53:24
It's just as big and spacious.
53:27
It's cool, it's understated.
53:28
There's just something, I mean, I love Skodas.
53:32
I used to love them when they were shit when I was a kid.
53:37
Yeah, and I love them in the last 15 years,
53:41
as they got better and better.
53:42
But that to me, for, well,
53:45
if you're using personal contract hire,
53:47
just over 400 quid a month,
53:49
I mean, you can't argue with that.
53:52
You don't need any more car.
53:55
And I'm sorry, Tony, if you're listening to this,
53:58
as you probably know, I'm not in love with my M5 touring.
54:02
But if that was swapped out with the Skoda Octavia,
54:05
the BRS estate, I would not be devastated.
54:08
Because I think it offers everything you want in a car
54:12
and all the practicality in the world.
54:17
So that's my mid-run car.
54:22
Now, my last one, I ran out of time a bit,
54:28
and I'm sure I could find a PCP deal on this.
54:31
But I found another lease deal.
54:34
I don't know what it is about me at lease deals today.
54:37
But it's a car that we both love
54:39
and have experienced recently.
54:45
We both love and have experienced recently.
55:03
So our budget is £750 now.
55:07
So I've gone for a GR Yaris.
55:12
And this is the Roven Perra one.
55:13
So I think it's not the top spec,
55:16
but the one down from the top spec.
55:19
But mega, mega, mega car for £758 a month.
55:26
That's a lot of money, isn't it?
55:29
It's a lot of money, and it's a big initial.
55:31
I only just spotted the initial payment, actually.
55:39
Especially now, I'm looking at going,
55:41
why don't I think that was a good deal
55:42
when you just showed us that Skoda for 500 quid,
55:44
and I will know 400 quid?
55:46
So maybe this is a rubbish deal.
55:47
Maybe just ignore what I'm saying.
55:52
Yeah, I think you might be honest.
55:54
That's, I mean, that is a lot of money.
55:55
What are they based about 50 grand now?
55:59
Oh, and it's 5,000 miles.
56:01
No, this one's £58,000 car.
56:08
58 grand for a Yaris is stupid, but they are good.
56:12
Yeah, okay, well, that's a nice example of what not to buy.
56:19
Yeah, I'm just going to go buy a Renault 5.
56:22
Ped, you're doing so well up until that one.
56:26
I don't know, I was thinking, I was doing my research
56:29
and kind of ran out of time a bit and thought,
56:30
ah, looks all right.
56:31
And then I just started looking at the details and I'm like, no, no.
56:34
I noticed on the spec, it goes boot space.
56:36
It doesn't give you any spec for boot space.
56:38
Well, that's accurate, yeah.
56:41
I think ironically, this was the hardest one
56:43
because there's a lot of really nice, let's say sports cars,
56:47
M cars, 911s above around £1,000.
56:51
But yeah, at the £700 market, it's 750.
56:55
I mean, you've got the monthly is almost bang on there,
56:58
but that is, I mean,
57:00
so I did have and I've deleted it for you.
57:03
So Pat in the WhatsApp group had suggested Alpine A110
57:07
and I did have Alpine A110.
57:09
And the reason it took hours, so interestingly,
57:11
the Alpine A110 over the last couple of months
57:14
have had some 0% finance deals from Alpine,
57:18
really, really attractive ones, but they don't run up for very long.
57:22
And if you get one of them, then they're like super interesting,
57:26
but you can easily get an Alpine A110 for £700 a month.
57:31
And that would be, that's a proper car.
57:37
But because the Alpenes, well, we've seen their residuals are really good,
57:40
so I guess that's how they manage.
57:45
So my final one at that price point, it's weird because we kind of,
57:50
well, I guess with the side,
57:52
we both started with these tiny super mini electric things,
57:55
then we both went up to like mid-sized family
57:59
sporty family wagons in a way,
58:02
and then we're both going to end with hot hatches, which is...
58:05
Well, that'll actually be wrong.
58:08
So, like I said, I did like you strike on a little bit with this price point.
58:15
And although I don't think, I think our earlier options are definitely good value,
58:18
whereas both of these that we've suggested probably aren't amazing, are you?
58:22
The one I haven't suggested, of course,
58:24
is you could have bought a 991.2 GTS Cabriolet for £750 a month,
58:30
but it had blown up.
58:34
So I don't know what's going to come up here.
58:35
Oh, actually, oh, it's coming up.
58:40
So, yeah, so at the moment,
58:44
Audi are doing really good contributions towards RS3s.
58:48
So I've got an RS3 here,
58:51
which obviously the very latest one, which has been recently updated,
58:57
with a £6,200 deposit, which is 10% over, what have I said?
59:04
I've said over 48 months for this one.
59:06
So almost maximum annual mileage, £10,000.
59:11
It works out at £689 a month.
59:17
Yeah, £689 with a £6,000 deposit, which is, and that's a £62 grand car.
59:26
So, and that's, again, PCP, and I've just seen,
59:30
they've got a personal contract hire option here as well.
59:33
So I'll just click on that and see, let's have a look.
59:37
Rentals in advance, let's bring that up to maximum,
59:40
because I think that gives us, so that's only, okay, yeah.
59:46
Initial rental, that's not even 10%, duration,
59:49
let's bring that up to 36 months over three years.
59:54
And annual mileage, let's wrap that up to £10,000.
59:57
So with personal contracts, personal contract hire,
00:03
it works out at £6,000, no, one second.
00:09
Oh, okay, so interestingly, it's actually more expensive,
00:12
personal contract hire, because you don't get that four and a half,
00:16
or whatever it was, five grand deposit contribution from Audi.
00:21
So you don't get it on the contract hire.
00:23
So if you're getting one of these, and to me,
00:25
it looks like you're better off going PCP.
00:27
Oh, it's actually, yeah, £5,625 that Audi put towards your RS3.
00:34
So yeah, it's not amazing value.
00:37
And I think a lot of people will be like, Jesus, 700 plus.
00:40
Yeah, it's a lot of car, but then £700 a month is a lot of money.
00:45
A lot of RS6 for that five years ago.
00:47
Exactly, yeah, and I think that's the sticky point.
00:52
But the other thing to say is with all of these things,
00:56
is have a shop round for your finance as well,
01:00
because these are deals that we've found mostly, I think,
01:03
on manufacturers' websites or dealers.
01:07
But you might will find independent finance is cheaper.
01:10
What you won't get, though, in many cases,
01:13
that big hefty deposit contribution, I would guess,
01:16
that's only available if you take out the finance from them.
01:20
But you might find that the APR and the details of other finance is
01:27
even still even better, because they'll just have lower APRs and stuff.
01:31
And also if cars are in stock as well,
01:33
if you walk into a Skoda dealer and they've got a car there,
01:36
then you might be able to haggle a little bit more off the price.
01:42
I know there'll be some people going,
01:44
oh, your finance, you're just encouraging people to get into debt,
01:47
which I had so much of that when I bought my Porsche,
01:50
because I had a paid integration with my finance company,
01:54
and I'm not really.
01:55
It's just like the vast majority of people,
01:57
whether you like it or not, buy their cars on finance.
02:00
It's like 80% or something.
02:02
Even Ferraris, something ridiculous with Ferraris,
02:05
it's over 70% of Ferraris are bought on Ferrari Finance.
02:09
So it's how people buy cars now,
02:12
but I found it really interesting going through that.
02:18
I think if you're buying an electric car,
02:21
and you can get an electric car on 0% APR,
02:24
so you're not paying any interest,
02:26
then I think you'd almost be mad not to finance it,
02:28
because owning outright an electric car to me is like I would serve at night.
02:35
It would give me nightmares,
02:36
because all you'd think about is how much money it's losing,
02:40
whereas if you're buying on a PCP
02:43
and you've got a guaranteed final value or whatever it is,
02:46
at least you can get rid of it if shit hits a fan.
02:53
It's interesting, because I've got a friend of mine
02:55
I was helping look at a car to buy last week,
02:59
and he was looking at buying a new one,
03:02
and buying it outright.
03:03
And I said, well, if you're buying a new one,
03:05
and you're buying it outright,
03:06
then unless you're desperate to spec a car,
03:09
and the car we were looking at,
03:10
the only thing you could spec was the color.
03:11
So I said, you may as well try and find a six-month-old X demonstrator,
03:17
because that will already have,
03:20
I don't know what percentage of value,
03:23
15, 20% of the value taken off it.
03:25
So do that, so yeah, anyway.
03:30
Come on, back on the bus.
03:34
So put in the comments,
03:36
what would you buy with your 250, 500, or 750-grid?
03:41
It's a great game to play,
03:43
although I was sat in bed yesterday morning with a cup of tea,
03:46
and I'm on auto-trading and tasted like,
03:47
what are you doing on auto-trading?
03:48
You've just bought a car.
03:53
It's research, darling.
03:56
I'm not buying another one.
03:59
But yeah, anyway, thanks,
04:01
soon and make sure that you hit that subscribe button
04:03
if you haven't done so already, as Joe said,
04:04
we are so close to hitting a big milestone on YouTube.
04:09
And again, give us a follow on Facebook and Instagram,
04:12
and tune in next week.
04:14
But for now, easy now.
04:17
Big thanks once again to Michelin for supporting us.
04:20
And we've got an interesting Michelin subject
04:24
that we're going to talk about in next week's pod.
04:27
Next episode, so stay tuned for that.