The cheapest fully working chod you can buy

[carlo]

I was thinking last night (well it's easier than sleeping), about what would be the absolute cheapest car you could currently buy, with the criteria that:

 

    Is in fully working order and provide sensible transport for a good while yet

    Has sensible MOT i.e 6 months

    Has reasonable bodywork

    Age irrelevant, some may say the older the better in this price range

    

The target price is £200, so about £50 more than scrap value and I reckon some of these should be achievable

 

    Daewoo Leganza

    Ford Mondeo I/II 2.5 V6 (judging by the number of tidy looking ones I keep seeing unsold)

    Peugeot 406 petrol 96-99 (I think we may have some recent evidence of these...)

    Fiat Marea 2.0

    Vauxhall Vectra of any description Series 1

    Chrysler Neon

 

Having got this far now it appears I have just described most rep saloons of the late nineties, but are there any smaller cars you could think of?

 

 

 

    

    

[Jim Bell]

Pug 406 2.0 pez in green Sorry, no longer available.

[af1]

My v plate 106 quiksilver £150 mot till June

 

 

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[carlo]

Although it wasn't my intention to make the thread a 'For Sale' board.

[crapcarcollector]

Yeah but not a bad idea though? The latest child posted here. Then the green pug might not have been missed.........<br /><br /><br />Sent from my Nokia 3310 using the force.

[michael1703]

Omg I've got a car for £140 and no won wheel buy it, uve all let me daan

[brickwall]

This is why I'm not too bothered about make and model when I'm looking for a runner, You don't need to think too hard and just grab up some piece of shite that will buff up a bit. I've had excellent, good, bad and indifferent.

 

Takes yer pick

[michael1703]

I just bought a 1999 Volvo v70t5, 3 months mot and tax for £160

[skattrd]

Didn't someone on here just buy a 2spd automatic Suzuki Alto (or similar) for £72 or something stupid?

[oman5]

I sold a mk3 Golf 1.9D est a while back for 150. I too feel the pain of being let down by autoshiters, nobody here would buy it. It's still going strong too.

[af1]

Oh mine isn't for sale, that is what I purchased

 

 

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[eddyramrod]

I would imagine there are hundreds of small businesses up and down the country running vans of Sprinter/TurboDaily size and below, who would flog them off at or near scrap price when they become uneconomical to keep as a business tool.  I'm driving such a van now, my 2000 Citroen Relay.  MoT is up in March and it will need a tyre if nothing else (£75+), and then immediately re-taxing.  Last summer our other van, a V-reg Transit, was replaced using the same criteria.  The question is, can my boss afford to buy another van so soon after the 2007 Ducato he bought last year?  I'm guessing he'll force the Relay through again.  But, the Transit went to scrap, still with several months of MoT on it, and still in daily service, so it would have been a perfectly acceptable emergency solution for someone who could wave £200 at my boss.

 

Last year at this time, as many regular readers will know, I spent a couple of days walking around town looking for exactly that, a dirt-cheap emergency motor, anything would have done (even a signwritten diesel Transit!) and came up with, omg, a green 2.0 petrol 406.  How did that happen!  I enjoyed the car too...

[DVee8]

That Quicksilver looks quite nice what is wrong with it?

[eddyramrod]

PS to my posting above...

I just realised, the Transit I mentioned is on my avatar pic!  It's the one under the sign.  A plain blue Ducato lives there now.

[Sloth in a bowl]

 

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/rover-214si-classic/1045656766

[Sloth in a bowl]

 

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/rover-216-m-reg-tax-and-mot/1043013349

 

I'm getting a cheap Rover vibe in the Birmingham Gumtree

[Sloth in a bowl]

For a whole £50 extra you can get a sub 30,000 mile Fiesta with short MOT

 

 

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/ford-fiesta-lx-zetec-13l-300-pounds-s-reg-only-30000-mileage-mot-feb-tax-apr/1045576639

[Station]

Nissan Micra 1.2 SLX for £120 with loads of MOT and a couple months tax - it was up for sale for £250. The bloke moaned when I went in, saying he'd been offered 120 but the bloke didn't turn up. So I offered him £120 and took it there and then.

 

 

Volvo 440 - bloke was selling as he just wanted rid of it - it was his elderly father's from new, and had FVSH etc

 

 

Mitsubishi Starion with MOT and tax for £250!

 

 

Toyota MR2 with Koni whatsits for £250 with tax and about three months MOT (sold to an MR2 breaker for £350):

 

 

Best one of all! Toyota MR2 with 10 months MOT (but no tax) for £250!

 

 

There's loads of cars out there from people selling just because they want rid ASAP.

[dugong]

305 cost £206, was in Norwich and had 1 month MOT and tax. 

It hates me and I hate it. 

[laser wheels]

Nissan Micra 1.2 SLX for £120 with loads of MOT and a couple months tax - it was up for sale for £250. The bloke moaned when I went in, saying he'd been offered 120 but the bloke didn't turn up. So I offered him £120 and took it there and then.

 

 

Volvo 440 - bloke was selling as he just wanted rid of it - it was his elderly father's from new, and had FVSH etc

 

 

Mitsubishi Starion with MOT and tax for £250!

 

 

Toyota MR2 with Koni whatsits for £250 with tax and about three months MOT (sold to an MR2 breaker for £350):

 

 

Best one of all! Toyota MR2 with 10 months MOT (but no tax) for £250!

 

 

There's loads of cars out there from people selling just because they want rid ASAP.

 

They all look amazeballs, but did the red MR2 get broken? It seems a shame as it looks really nice, unless there was something terminal? Rotten, perchance?

[catsinthewelder]

I saw a Volvo 440 just like that one ^ with a £150 for sale sign in the window last year.  It had plenty of T+T on and I was damn tempted.

 

I would have posted it up if I hadn't been so close to buying it for myself.

 

I'm glad I didn't see that Starion that cheap or I'd have been sleeping in it

[pandamonium]

Sorry, but I win at this game

£73 for a car with mot til may is about the best you can hope for these days.

[Ratdat]

One of the best cars I've bought for peanuts was this G11 Charade that came with MOT and tax off of eBay for £95. I originally bought it for spares for our G10 but it was far too nice to break...

 

 

It was a brilliant little car too. 100% reliable, mega economical and a hoot to drive. Mrs Ratdat used it until it's test ran out then it went to my mate Jon who fixed it up and tested it again before selling it on to a young girly who sadly wrote it off....

 

[Junkman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hyundai-Accent-Coupe-I-1999-Mot-till-8-5-14-and-Tax-till-30-3-14-Cheap-car-/131096885341