Man Buys Car, Tax, Insurance And Petrol For Less Than A Train Ticket

This has to be one of the more remarkable car stories we’ve seen recently. Tom Church, of discount website Latest Deals, was so baffled by the £218.10 price tag of a peak time trip from London to Bristol that he decided to try to get there and back another way.

He bought a road-legal 1997 Honda Civic for £80, the minimum road tax for £81.38, temporary insurance for £20.43 and £25 worth of petrol, totalling £206.81. In other words, he bought and ran a working car for less than a single return train ticket. Watch the video for how the mad deal unfolded.

Mind you, this Civic is way overpriced compared to a Rover 214 that cost its owner just £3.19…