2,000 miles a year, she gets around compared to some of my neighbour's, a 9 year old neighbour's car I sometime use still only has 9k-miles on it, another neighbour ended up only doing a few miles with his a year, his son borrowed it for a couple of weekends and towards the end of his ownership of it would drive it about every 6 weeks or so on a 15-mile round trip just to keep it move it moving and still not much over 300 miles between MoTs. 17 years old and 28k-miles from new when I last saw it and I saw it when it was branded new (bought for him by his son) so I knew its history. Another neighbour has a car that hasn't moved a wheel in 15 months other than perhaps being taken for an mot and annual service if and how that might have been done I missed. Old folk won't admit to not being able to drive their cars again and they rust and seize on the drives or garages instead of someone else getting good use out of them.

A Mini Metro, far too modern a model for my knowledge. I almost got a 3-year old Mini Metro in the mid-80s (which would probably needed work at that age) but instead got a two-month old importers car with 6k on the clock and 22 months warranty by a company called Škoda (before VW marched in and took them over). Good to hear it's still on the road, useful for when the Fabia has issues. I owned various "classics" (over-priced and over-valued old cars as everyday use cars (and commuting, holiday, shows, events in UK and Europe) for 30+ years. 1983 is no cost "road tax" and MoT not required if you don't want to (has to be roadworthy obviously) and unless things have changed if you get your car insurance with Peter Best it will be a very low premium (unlimited milage if you want no extra charge, modified is fine, no garage and night use is fine all no extra) and includes (a very good) UK and Europe Breakdown recovery to home cover in with the low premium, a lot less cost than just the AA breakdown and recovery.

Many years ago I worked out it was financially less expensive to get taxis and hire cars than to buy a new car and do less than 3,000 miles a year - not that I learnt as I've spent many ten's of thousands of pounds on "classics" let alone the new and brand new cars I've wasted our money on. as I always point out the 2015 Fabia Mk3 is my wife's car (10k-miles on it when bought at 15 months old and currently at IIRC 77k-miles, it's her car and I don't drive it very often so very. very few chances to give blow out runs in nearly 11 years of her ownership, the engine insides must like like a coalminer's underpants. 😄

I'll leave you with that image. 😁

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ETA: apologises @thamestrader I totally forgot you are/were the foodbank man and your Metro, just seen a photo of it when I was looking for something in another thread. My memory and mental faculties aren't the best - but might qualify me for a future job when the vacancy comes up over the pond. 😁

2 hours ago, nta16 said:

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ETA: apologises @thamestrader I totally forgot you are/were the foodbank man and your Metro, just seen a photo of it when I was looking for something in another thread. My memory and mental faculties aren't the best - but might qualify me for a future job when the vacancy comes up over the pond. 😁

@nta16 no problem- that was 2020 nearly 6 years ago now. Still have the Metro of course but finished volunteering at the Foodbank at the end of March 2021 after 12 months of continuous volunteering, 5 by 8 hour days each week driving a Sprinter van delivering food parcels and collecting new supplies. Seems a long while ago now.