

its hard to explain but you not the only person to have said that....
Honestly, we do need a car for the wife. Its just that everything here is so close by. A round trip to work for the wife is under 30kms.
Weekend trips to the hairdresser etc all a couple kms.
And we did try the cheaper car route with her previous car and not going to name and shame brands, but we thought we were doing the financially responsible thing and it was not the case. Bought her previous car in Feb 2023, demo with 3000km on the clock. Traded it in now for the BM with 14k kms, and that was only because we were not driving the car as often and with the issues etc, we sent the car to Durban for my mum-in-law to use for a couple months hoping the regular usage will help the car iron out its issues. But no luck. Car had spongy and noisy breaks which 2 dealers could not sort out and claimed it as normal. Anything around 120 and above had horrible wind noise, again claimed to be normal.
Long story short, lost over 100k on the car. So rather spend a bit more and sure most cars dont hold value, but atleast we know we have a solidly built car and one you actually enjoy driving, be it for only <100kms a month