Yesterday it had 4 new tyres, soon it'll need a tax disc and the annual insurance. These are by far the biggest outlays in ownership but I can't really complain because pretty much every car needs them.
Even if I could get free road tax and cheap classic insurance I'd still need a car that would do 47mpg to equal the 205's economy. And I could also do with it zipping along at 60-80mph smoothly and never breaking down. Sadly nothing exists which does all these things.
As ever, it'll probably be car boredom that forces me to change, but I know I'll have to pay for it.
Seth, I'm sure it's no GTi with its cornering but it's more fun that the Polo I used to have. It's also quite forgiving and easy to feel how much grip you have. A few weeks ago while zipping up the A1M I came to my exit at St Neots, this is one of the more savoury sliproads and you can maintain a good speed around the corner. I'd passed a new Passat half a mile earlier who wrong-footed it behind a truck in the left lane and he caught me up just approaching the slip road. I'm pretty sure the new car's ultimate cornering power is higher but because the Peugeot gives you more feel through the steering it whizzed through the slip road smoothly, not losing much speed. The Passat driver bottled it and went around (as I saw in my mirror) in a series of lurches
