Well I've had a Peugeot 107 now for about 10 years. The car is 12 years old, and is the one car that I have had the longest out of any car I have ever had.
Today I got the insurance renewal through - £179, which I managed to knock them down to £148
. With 20 quid a year road tax, and around 50mpg (more if I did longer trips), this car really costs very little to run.
I thought I was about to have to replace the original battery, but no...it's still going strong. When I got the Saab 9-3 a couple of years back as a bit of a mid life crisis project car, I could have got rid of the 107, but I spread my annual mileage over both cars, and keep my Saab mileage low too
And I don't have to worry about depending on the Saab (in case anything goes wrong, which I hope it won't!!)
If you want a cheap runabout, or a first car for the kids, these 107/C1/Aygos are now very cheap to buy. Toyota 3 cylinder engine, and no frills on a lot of them. When I was looking, the C1s were the poorest specced, and the Aygos the best specced (but also more expensive to buy). So I opted for the 107 with the a/c, elec windows, central locking, and alloys.....the best all round package, and still the same car underneath as the Aygo.