These days there are many different ways to find a second hand car to buy. A lot of people still do it the old fashioned way and buy their local rag and search through the classifieds until they come across some grainy picture of a rust bucket that looks half decent in that lovely shade of grey!

I recently had to find a new car because my old car got run into the ground. It only cost me four hundred pounds but it did me proud for over fifty thousand miles! Unfortunately it has been sent to the scrap yard now, and I need something a bit smarter for my new job.

I decided to avoid the route of the local newspaper – I forget how many cars I have been to look at over the years from an ad in the paper, but they are never what you think they are. This time around I was going to look for Motors online! There are lots of great sites out there which have a lot of user friendly aspects in terms of narrowing down your search and really being able to make specific changes to your search criteria. In my case it allowed me to focus on the model of car I wanted, and because of this I managed to find a great example which was an absolute bargain! It really is a false economy to look for a second hand motor anywhere else.

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