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…
Comments
£80 is really cheap for a Civic.
£80 is really cheap for any road legal car that runs and drives.
Beautiful! Call me a ricer, sure, but there’s something I just love about old Civics. That one looks awesome.
The price for train tickets is absolutely outrageous. The state wants us to drive less (okay, I can understand that), yet a train ticket for a 70 km trip to home costs me 15€ and said trip takes two hours by train (car: 45 minutes). The state has to invest into public transport massively if they want people to drive cars less, that’s the only alternative. Yet what do we see? Privatisation and cost-saving measures without any advantage for the end customer, hooray.
Unfortunately, this would never happen in the states. No one would ever sell a clean, working car for less than $1500 near where i live. Even less often, a manual civic hatchback.
Here, you can’t get anything for less than $500 CAD, and you’re lucky if it works.
Why the train ticket got so expensive these day?
I am always complaining about train ticket prices in Germany… but for that amount I could travel a week through Germany I think…..
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Tyler be like
next week on the grand tour