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[Doctor Gollum]

The used car market is totally arse backwards at the moment...

You can't buy anything remotely newish for less than an arm and both kidneys, yet even clean slightly older used cars are apparently worthless. That said, it could be an idea to get the Astra upto snuff and keep it rather than trying to replace it with something that is, in reality, only marginally better

The Corsa makes no sense from a short term profit point of view, but equally, if you have the cash spare and it means something to you, then why not, after all, it may well appreciate in due course.

Even the most mundane motor from the seventies and eighties go for more than you might imagine. Probably due to nostalgia.
Bangers and cash sold a basic 2 litre Mk4 Cortina recently. I believe it made around £15,000.

That's a waiting game, but it might be one worth playing. Keep the mileage down, MoT current and service it at least once a year and you may well do ok out of it in the longer term

[Varche]

 
My dads did that too!

[JamesV6CDX]

Why does your Astra need a partial respray? Is it car park damage? I get the new display.

We are having similar thoughts with our 14 Golf but it has 125 k miles. Bodywork is fine. Going to stick with it until we have moved house.

Oth front doors have gone Vauxhall pink, much like old red corsas used to.

Just keep it mechanically up to scratch and sod the aesthetics. Drive it into the ground