Yep, it's the only way to do it as far as I'm concerned.
I do 12k miles per year driving to work down boring dual carriageways (bar 6 miles of B road from my village) so I have no interest in piling on the miles in anything decent.
I've always had a summer car and a second car since my Ford RS days back when I was 21.
Exactly as you say, something reliable that fades into surroundings and lets you keep the miles off your weekend car. The weekend car feels more special that way too.
All I would say is Focus's (Foci ?
) aren't great as they get older. We've just sold my wife's after 5 years. Bought it on 15k at 2 year old and took it upto 60k. Had a few niggles last year. All to be expected but still. They go through bottom arms and wheel bearings for fun. Also there's a flexi joint on the front pipe which splits. Ford in their wisdom also put the cat in the front pipe too though so it £450 for the part. I had my mechanic cut the flexi out and weld a generic one in but it was a faff.
1.8 petrol detected never averaged more than 38mpg and that was with my wife taking it easy. Mainly 65 ish on dual carriageways.
I've owned this old Volvo for 2 years. Bought it for £700 on 154k. Now on 177k. I've fitted two brake calipers and done a service in that time. It humps loads of stuff for my house renovation, has carried mates ands bikes to cycling events all over, etc etc.
I love it. No nonsense motoring and I actually think it's quite cool.
Newer models aren't as good mind.
Anyway back to the point... get it done. :thumb:
ETA - I can do this as I'm not a poser and don't care what I drive for work. I don't do keeping up with the Jones and learned not to judge someone by their car years ago.
Some people like to pull up in a nice car everywhere though. They wouldn't be seen dead in my Volvo. :grin:
Depends which camp you fall into.