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I'm so glad Gareth was on this episode to join in the bullying of Rory's awful financial decisions

He didn't have terrible luck, he made terrible choices.

Love Josh just awkwardly standing in the corner for nearly 2 minutes! haha

Jesus Christ. Assuming Rory bought his first car at 17, he has lost more than £550 per month.

My first car was a Rover 25 for £700, it survived for 6-7 months before the head gasket blew. My second car was a 97 Mazda 121 for £450 that had 16 previous owners and lasted for about 2 years. In that 2 and a half years Rory lost 10K to 15K in comparison.

Dude needs to let Taylor be in charge of any car decisions from now on

We demand a full list of cars owned!

basically Rory's issue is that he hasn't grown to the point where he understands that you can only buy what you have the free cash to pay for.

Rory had an absolute shocker on the XJ. I ran a 2014 plate portfolio one for 2 years and all it cost me was servicing and a new trailing arm and ball joint. Shifted it when the bills for brakes and tyres was looming and took a £2k hit on what I bought it for. Didnt think that was too bad and otherwise was very reliable and an excellent car overall.

An Insignia ? At 18 ? Im 51 and even my old ass thinks thats an old mans car ! Oh Rory.......

I’m more shocked that Rory is 30…

Fairplay to you Rory, youve just made a great number of people feel a whole lot better about their car decisions. A guy round the corner recently got a maserati, ive never seen it move since it arrived and yesterday he was doing italian yoga (he was doing a head stand in the passengers footwell!) Youre not a lone your automotive madness 🤙🏼

After listening to Rory's car buying expense, I now feel so much better about my awful car buying losses. :o)

You guys should do a full run down, including side stories. Make it long episodes if you need to. I’d watch both all the way through

I do wish more people would talk about the real costs of ownership though. We’ve all seen the cost of rebuilds, or doing something no one does outside of KZfaq, but it’s hard to gauge how much people are spending on cars so it’s hard to know if you could be spending less. I’ve spent about 5500 quid keeping my Z4 on the road over the last 40 months, and I have no idea whether I’d be better selling it off and getting something newer because no one seems to track their real costs properly. My previous experience tells me I’m probably about right, but maybe I buy shit boxes. None of the work has been for breakdowns though and it’s only ever been to independents so theoretically that’s over 100 per month for a reliable drive.

I fear I might have that figure beat with my terrible automotive choices as well. Just know you aren't the only one Rory and I stand with you (in financial ruin).

I can join Rory in liking old man cars. My second car (at 18) was a Nightfire Red Rover 214SEi. My fourth or fifth car at 20 or 21 was a 1998 Rover 825 Sterling in White Gold. The latter was a huge financial mistake. £700 to buy, £900 to fix it in six months, blew head gasket, sold for £190. Not a patch on Rory's losses but still steep for me at the time working at Tesco).

So great to have Gareth on the channel he is mint, love his humour missed seeing him on the channel

Gareth thinking £90k is a person's deposit on a house is blowing my mind

Love the podcast Alex and awesome seeing Gareth back too, hope Miles is well and thank you for all you and your team do go get em Tiger

Sounds exactly like me in my 20s, it didn't bother me at the age of 30 either. Now I am 50 I just keep thinking if I hadn't been so stupid I would now own a much nicer house and would be looking to retire many years earlier.

When considering car losses, you have to divide the total by the number of months you had the car. Then, compare that to the cost of a bus pass (which would be the alternative).

I'm a private hire driver.... if Rory ever turns out to be my passenger, I'm refusing for fear of my car going bang

He's the /r/WallStreeetBets of car ownership, YOLO to the MOT centre. Still fair play to him for /having/ 90k to lose at a young age!

The most baffling thing to me is spending 90k and not really having a single car that’s very cool honestly lol

Rory is fantastic, he makes me feel amazing about my car ownership journey.

Hi Guys, poor Rory truly is a bit of a numpty when it comes to money and cars. The sad thing for me is that some young peeps are going to be watching this, thinking it's OK. And it's really, really not. Rory you really should learn to stop spending money you have no intention to repay., or your credit score will be buggered FOR LIFE.

English car prices are nuts. How can a quattroporte with 32k miles be only 16 000 pounds?

10:55 the bloke waiting patiently trying not to interrupt in the background 😂😂

My first car when I was 18, was an 11 year old 1995 Ford Fiesta 1.6GT for €950... which I crashed after less than 2 years. Then I bought a nearly 8 year old 2001 Ford Mondeo for €7200 (was about €30000 over here when it was new)... WHICH I STILL DRIVE!😂 15 years later, at age 23, it's still driving and roadworthy. Best car ever! Though it is a bit of a shed by now if I'm honest. Rory has lost £90000 on cars, in Britain where cars are much cheaper than here in the Netherlands, and he's younger than me! OMG!

With you on the Defender Rory- they should be go up in value but that’s only going to offset some of your 90k if you sell it! mines definitely worth more now than what I paid for it nearly 17 years ago.

Rx8's, once you look past the reliability and the fuel efficiency, is a really fun car.

Wait, who’s Rory’s dad?

7:30 yeah, thats negative equity Gareth, and its a nasty one when dealing with car finance trade-ins. All the debt from the previous car gets forwarded on top of the new finance plan. At least, thats how I understand it, I could be wrong!

At this point it’s not bad luck in cars. It’s your choices of cars and how you pay for them.

Some lr specialists can change the disco 3 turbos without taking the body off but it's better getting the body off and doing everything

Do an episode where Rory makes a profit on a car!

I think we need to see a picture wall of all Rory's 30 cars now

Rory, I have some magic beans that you might be interested in buying. You can grow the car of your dreams.

Chris and Gareth on a podcast is what we wanted to see ✌️

A fool and his money (a finance company's) are easily parted😂😂😂

That's just part of car ownership. I hate to think the money I've lost over my 40 odd years of driving. Buying recently a new Range Rover has been my biggest mistake!

That whiplash claim is deffo bordelsey green, alum rock areas 😂😂

I know the feeling, had a similar issue, i had bad luck on an 08 mk4 mondeo titanium x, bought it for £1850, owned it two and a half years, £5.5k in repairs even though it didn’t have anything wrong with it when i bought it then had to be scrapped for £220 Bought a 98 Lexus LS400 after and its still been fine and not had a single issue years later

Rory has not covered himself in glory on this one 😕 Funny and all but kind if tragic how many people say they've done similar 😳

It seems that Rory loses around £3k per car. In contrast, ive been driving around 20 years and ive had 3 cars, the last being a MK4 Golf GT Tdi 130PD that i paid £8k for at 3 years and 60k miles which i ended up spending £5k of insurance money on and had for 14 years, finally letting her go on August 2020 for £1000. I think ive done quite well.

I feel your pain. Easily done. I am around 50 cars at 39. I dare not add up my loses. 7 cars this year and lost a fair bit. 😅.

Honestly this makes me feel better about my financial choices. 2018 fiesta as my first car. Put 30k on it, sold it when it needed a decent amount spending on it and got a 2017 bmw 220d on 15k miles at 18. Somehow insurance was cheap on it too. Literally emptied my entire savings from a year of working on the car too. But a year and 18k miles later to this day, I still own the car outright, it’s not had a single issue, I have money saved and the car will be staying with me for many more years yet as it’s great for what I use it for (especially now it’s past the days of delivering dominos 😂)

Sounds like Rory only took the job with Autoalex so he can get his cars fixed for free... 😄

Well Rory's definitely made me feel better about my constant losses on cars 😂

Someone crashed into me in the exact same way as Rory had on a roundabout and even though I had front and back dashcam footage and three police officers witnessed the entire thing the insurance company settled 50/50 based off court case decision from early 2000. They in effect state all collisions on a roundabout is an automatic 50/50.

Gareth “you’re a genius “ 😂😂😂😂

Rory unfortunately, is better suited to being behind the scenes, of these channels 😑

How the fuck he afforded certain cars at such a young age is beyond me

Rory is almost the British version of Hoovies garage😂😂

Always have a dash cam, exactly the same thing happened to me and the first thing the insurance company said was have you got dash cam footage because its Gold dust.

And here I am thinking I was bad for buying a 106 off a ‘friend’ for £500 and spending twice that to get it through its next mot! Cheers Rory, I feel better now 😂

Let's face it all cars and motorcycles are a waste of money it would be a lot cheaper to catch the bus everywhere ! But you can't rag a bus down your favourite back road or polish it on your drive 😂

I feel much better now, thanks I needed that.

Poor poor Rory. If only he was able to afford his own race car. Maybe he could have afforded it if he didn't lose £90k!

Me and rory followed the same route, fiesta to insignia, ive also looked at a mazda 6

I feel so much better after watching that! 😃 My choices seem less catastrophic! Next time things go awry: At least this isn't Rory level!!🤣 Thank you!!

Alright, rory is deffo not the brightest dude ahahha

I dont want to jinx myself, and some have my purchases have been less risky cars than him... but ive probably had 25 cars (im 40, and for context started my work life as a car mechanic), and only ever really had to do tyres and batteries, and a few sets of brakes. The outlier was buying a very cheap Disco2 TD5 that lasted a few years before blowing the head, got a backpacker tourist that was an ex Land Rover mechanic to do a full engine swap from a car he wrote off for about a thousand pounds and sold it for more than i bought it for! I generally buy very well looked after low mileage cars and drive them into the ground a bit for a couple of years, and then sell them for similar money. Thanks to people like Rory taking the hits and driving the car market down a bit hahaha

I think you lads went easy on Rory!! I would of ripped his arse out!! LOL

He should've sued that ferrari dealership, give them a piece of their own cake.

I mean, they are all laughing and joking. But the majority of us can't afford to waste £900 of our money on anything. Let alone £90,000 on cars! Sounds like rory has always had "daddies money" to bail him out.

4:14 only in Rory's car history

Great to see Gareth 👍

Rory doesn't have bad luck with cars, he's just the best at finding money pits. Silver linings 😂

The posh one says £90 k that's nearly a deposit on a house 😂

Accidents don’t do much to a young drivers insurance premium. I had a full at fault claim at 17 and the next year my premium went down to a third of the previous year

Easily done, I've done £30K on a 996 GT2, £15K on a F355, £15K GTR34, £10K S1 Exige, £15K RR Phantom, did less than 10k miles in total across all of them

He hasn't lost it he's spent it.

The Mazda 6 2.5 Sport was an amazing car. I ran one for over 4 years and it was solid!

PS. NEVER give Rory a Company Car.

if the Disco's like the Range Rover, you have to take the body off to change 3 of the glow plugs.

Love the pod boys but what I want to know is….. The best girlfriend/partner/wife pleasing car that’s fast and fun to drive for me, but reliable, practical and economical to keep them happy for under 5k. A situation I’m currently in. Cheers. Ned, Bristol.

Fascinated by the random dude in the corner lol

So, do you think its a good idea to have a producer that is so bad with money that they have lost £90,000 by making bad financial decisions? Just joking, a great video as always.

Good thing Alex bought Rory’s new Jag

Bro needs any toyota tbh

I lost 3k once on a volvo v50 d5 because i decided i HAD to have a mx5 ASAP!!!! i think about that realy foolish moment quite regularly, not because i regret the mx5 but because i regret selling the volvo so cheap. Guess its not that bad considering this hahaha

I had negative equity once on a car. My mates named my old astra the "neggatron"

Whit the free beer is a subscription bro

In the 80's there was a punk rock band called Free Beer. So bars would put up signs, Tonight: Free Beer. The bartender would say, "The band is called Free Beer. The longnecks are $3."

Rory, you are me...with a little bit more money and even bigger mistakes :D

Rory should have just bought a Camry and left it at that....

Gareth: cars are not for you Rory! You need to get a bus. Next Auto Alex video. Can Rory buy a bus for under Five grand!

Rory's credit rating must be on its arse by now...

this is hard to watch, it's causing me to count up my own cost of overship mistakes.. nothing like the big errors in total as rory but flippin heck the final number is a decent house deposit

I need a 3to4k daily but I want Taylor to choose which car I get ?

Rory, man I thought you were the sensible one. I met you at the NEC Classic car show, you seemed smart and not a crazy as the others. But (buutt), a Maserati Quatroporte - really! We would all love one, but know it would drain any pocket money faster than - well classic Range Rover or a girlfriend who only shops at Harvey Nick's or Fortnums! So you have only got a Jensen Interceptor or Aston Martin to go to be flat broke! I take my hat off to you, you have class and go for it - budget or not!

And Rory is Alex financial advisor.

No new podcast episode this week?

Notification squad Have a nice weekend!🔥🔥🔥

To be fair, I was in a bigger hole than that when i was 27. I had motor bikes as well as cars, and would do that debt accumulation thing as well. I was in 76,000 worth of debt at 27. but had bought a house and completely paid off my mortgage by 37... Now I wont even have a credit card....

When a man can say his most reliable car is an Rx8, I'm strapped in. Tell me more 😂

Rory talking about his terrible car choices made me feel better about 55k i lost on cars in my 20s 😅😂