subject: Save Money And The Environment With A Used Honda [print this page] In this post credit-crunch world, many of us are being a little bit more careful with our money just in case it happens again; consequently, many people are being a little bit less extravagant when it comes to car purchases and rather than opting for the large BMW, we're saving money by buying something a little smaller and more economical like a used Honda, MINI or Suzuki.
The advantages of buying a used Honda, Daewoo or Ford are both clear and yet also not immediately obvious. While it's natural that a smaller, used car will be cheaper than that shiny new 4x4 and will also be far cheaper to run unless there's a hole in the petrol tank, cars such as the Honda Civic - especially the hybrid model - are very economical to run, making them kinder to both your wallet and the environment.
A used Honda Civic hybrid, for example - especially if just being used for town driving in 30mph limits - can often use hardly any petrol due to the way it works. Rather than being a purely internal combustion-driven machine, hybrids - smaller ones especially - will usually run from electrical propulsion below a certain speed, meaning that for much town driving you might not actually use any petrol.
It's this kind of adaptability and running economy that makes buying used smaller cars the perfect way to both save money and the environment, both of which are important in the current economic and ecological landscape. There's also the manoeuvrability of a smaller car to consider: in our increasingly packed city streets where parked 4x4s chew up the space on both sides of the road, do we really need a larger car? Unless you're transporting a lot of children, do you need a 4x4 or a large saloon, or will a smaller car do the job? Ultimately, that answer will depend on you, your requirements and your tastes, but another large car on an already jammed road is just going to add to the problems that many drivers are currently experiencing.
Whether you are working for a company which is bouncing back from the credit crunch, or you didn't really feel the sting, it's still worth saving money wherever we can on slightly less opulent purchases. Maybe for the time being it's worth buying something a little bit more economically and ecologically sound like a used Honda, MINI or Daewoo rather than the larger status-symbol vehicle, just in case the worlds' banking system goes wrong again in the next couple of years.
