Company car

[Jesse James]

Hi everyone

I have been offered a company car at work. As far as I am aware I can have anything that is reasonable (I am not sure how much you guys know what reasonable is)

My question is what would anyone recommend? I have a 197 cup now, but I can't warrant having 2 cars.

I don't really drive that far 10 mile each way to work and sometimes out to clients within 50 mile radius of work

Any help would be great.
Cheers

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[nutnutwelshman]

220 Trophy fun cheap and a auto with clients

 

[LiamRS197]

Golf R, seems every man and his dog has one nowadays which may mean its classed as "reasonable"

 

[MRizzle]

BMW M235, almost as fast as the M2 but at considerably less cost.

 

[Mattb_197]

My choices for a company run about would be:
VW Golf GTD or Skoda Octavia vRS - think they're both the VAG 2.0L TDi so a nice strong punchy engine for motorway work, cheap to tax and run. Also respond well to a cheeky bluefin remap to make them a bit more fun ;-)

If you wanted something a bit more premium then:
BMW 2 or 3 series with a punchy diesel engine and x-drive
Audi A3 or A4 again with some sort of performance diesel

I'd stay away from anything petrol in fairness. Diesel is far better for a workhorse car, better on the motorways and cheaper to both tax and run. So I wouldn't be going for anything too lairy personally. If you want fun you could always do your bike test and get a nice bike for the summer/weekends!

 

[montana]

Can you not take a monetary option instead of the car? Thus keeping the clio and having assistance towards maintenance?

 

[Micah]

That's what I do - take the cash allowance and it's non-pensionable so I get that little bit extra to spend each month (though pension is very important - I do pay into one!). Also, if you leave then you're without a car and back to square one.

 

[Chris]

Reasonable depends on your job title really doesn't it. If your on a basic salary then I can imagine a brand new BMW/audi will be out the question? Maybe I'm just assuming here.

What about a new focus rs? Not sure what sort of money they are though.

 

[Lewjew]

as said before, it depends what your firm class reasonable as, and whether they are going to purchase or lease the car.

Where I work, we get all our cars on a 24 month lease agreement. They are all Mercs/BMW/Audi etc. one of our managers has a Audi Q7, but then again, his salary is over £100k a year.

 

[Jesse James]

Can you not take a monetary option instead of the car? Thus keeping the clio and having assistance towards maintenance?

I will be honest I think it has been offered because my car is loud and had blue wheels which is not to everyone's taste

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[Jesse James]

That's what I do - take the cash allowance and it's non-pensionable so I get that little bit extra to spend each month (though pension is very important - I do pay into one!). Also, if you leave then you're without a car and back to square one.

Mate I work for a financial advisors and I deal with company pensions agreed we should all save for the future [emoji6] I am sure we all say it but I can't see me leaving

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