The Top 5 Reasons To Drive A Second Hand Car In Cape Town
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Vintage is stylish
Cape Town is South Africas avant-garde fashion hub, and nothings more in right now than vintage nostalgia. Driving a second hand or (wink, wink) vintage vehicle couldnt be trendier!
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Reuse, Reduce, Recycle, UPCYCLE
With the current state of our planet Earth Capetonians are all about reuse, reduce, and recycle but so many of us forget the fundamental vintage nostalgia-fuelled tenet of upcycling! Refurbishing or rebuilding your own car, or driving a second hand vehicle that you customized yourself is all the rage right now and it certainly helps reduce the demand for newly manufactured vehicles directly impacting the size of the car manufacturers carbon footprint! In fact, the manufacturing process has a significant environmental impact! Studies on the manufacturing and scrapping processes have shown that between 12-28% of the carbon emissions generated during a cars lifetime occur during manufacturing! And disposing of used cars (in terms of scrap) does not have a positive effect on the environment either. Just think of all the landfills and materials in vehicles that are in no way biodegradable.
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Cost Effective
Living in Cape Town is a unique experience, but one you can end up paying through the nose for. Cape Town is one of the most expensive cities in South Africa to live in and this may impact your ability to keep up payments on a new vehicle thats no problem! Buy your vehicle second hand!
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On that note
Buying a new car means youre going suffer the initial depreciation hit of up to 40% of what you paid for the car the minute you drive it off the lot can you afford that? Or is the peace of mind that comes with driving a second hand vehicle ultimately priceless?
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If its all the same to you
A decade ago buying a used car still meant sacrificing on newly developed safety features such as ABS brakes and stability control, but nowadays you can buy a used car of up to a handful of years old before you start to lose out on technological developments that have become standard safety features over the past decade.
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