{"id":3746,"date":"2011-07-10T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:diffrentcolours:900068"},"modified":"2011-07-10T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T15:25:43","slug":"potential-car-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2011\/07\/potential-car-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine is selling a 2003-vintage, 1l Vauxhall Corsa, and wants \u00a31,500 for it. Are there Manchester drivers who can come view the car (in Manchester city centre) with me? Art reckons that \u00a31,500 is a tad high for the car, but it might be worth it if it’s in good nick and coming from a friend. I haven’t arranged any viewing yet.<\/p>\n

I’ve done a little research and some calculations – assuming a rise in petrol prices, driving to Macclesfield will cost me \u00a32,000 a year insurance, \u00a3500 in running costs (based on <\/a>brrm<\/b><\/a><\/span>‘s estimates) and \u00a31000 in petrol. That’s \u00a33,500 total. My current commute costs me about \u00a31,500\/yr, so I’d need to be earning about \u00a34,000 more before tax to have the same post-commute income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine is selling a 2003-vintage, 1l Vauxhall Corsa, and wants £1,500 for it. Are there Manchester drivers who can come view the car (in Manchester city centre) with me? Art reckons that £1,500 is a tad high for the car, but it might be worth it if it’s in good nick and coming from a friend. I haven’t arranged any viewing yet.<\/p>\n

I’ve done a little research and some calculations – assuming a rise in petrol prices, driving to Macclesfield will cost me £2,000 a year insurance, £500 in running costs (based on <\/a>brrm<\/b><\/a><\/span>‘s estimates) and £1000 in petrol. That’s £3,500 total. My current commute costs me about £1,500\/yr, so I’d need to be earning about £4,000 more before tax to have the same post-commute income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45,43,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driving","category-help-wanted","category-jobs","category-manchester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":229,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8364,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/8364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}