My wife thinks we need a second car, but I’m not sure it won’t be a waste of money and bad for the environment.
We have two children and live on the outskirts of Slough, which is reasonably well-connected. But as the children have got older they have needed to be ferried around much more.
My wife thinks a second car is the only solution, but not only do I disagree but I can’t figure out the cheapest way to solve this problem. On principle I object to PCP and other finance agreements, but the cost of secondhand cars seems to have absolutely soared recently, to the point that some seem more expensive than brand new ones. If we buy in cash it would just fall in value straight away.
My gut tells me that if we are going to have a second car then we should go electric, but again brand new ones seem very expensive and secondhand ones do not seem to run for far enough before they need charging.
Can anyone help?
T.L Langley, Slough
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