Man Buys Car, Tax, Insurance And Petrol For Less Than A Train Ticket
Astonishingly, train travel has become so expensive that it was cheaper for one cash-savvy guy to buy an old car for the same journey...
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…
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This is godly
Wow
and I still can’t afford it
This is so sad can we hit 50 likes for timothybovine23.
Aww, dude.
Roadkill Intensifies
Jeremy Clarkson got a Volvo fir $1
*£
get rekt noncarguys
Well that’s alright because that must mean your trains are AMAZING and SUPER FAST and ALWAYS on time right?? For that price…. right????
Yeah … no
There is to say Top Gear got there first
Meanwhile i can barely see EK and EG hatches around here… And i foken love Civics :(
There are tons and tons of Civics for sale here.
Now where have I seen this before?
Best part? Train ticket is for one person, this can take 4
Yeah, imagine if he had to take a wife and kids with him
5 if the passengers are reasonably friendly with each other ;)
If you have some spare wood and bendable fabric, you can install seatbelts and head restraints and carry eight.
If you have some spare wood and bendable fabric, you can install seatbelts and head restraints on the roof and carry eight.
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