I BOUGHT A CHEAP CITROEN SAXO FOR £350!

This weekend I made a crazy decision. Scrolling Facebook marketplace and stumbled across a Citroen C3 Pluriel for £380. What could possibly go wrong. To my surprise after looking it over and driving it around a few days there is absolutely nothing wrong with it... Other than it being a C3 Pluriel. After buying a lot of cheap cars over the past few years it has been the only one so far that’s not a total lemon.

Hi Bud
Why don't you tow a trailer so you can move some of these cars about and save the cost of recovery.

I bought one 3 years ago for £500. I thought "if it lasts 6 months I'll have my money's worth" still driving perfectly to this day. Love that little thing. ❤❤

Can't beat a saxo! My Mrs got one new for her 18th and had it for 20 years and 120,000 miles before it ended up more rust than steel. We went on our first date in it, did 2 french road trips in it and i proposed to her in on on werneth low. Many a tear was shed when it went to the giant scrap yard in the sky.

I remember test driving a saxo before i bought my first car. Hated the pedals and the 1.1 engine and bought a lovely little 1.2 clio instead

Love your Range Rover as always 👍

Didn’t hamster from top gear rally one

I bought a 1999 citroen saxo in 2014. I still got 7 solid years out of it. 😁

Just bought one too, and it‘s in prestine condition. Hope it‘ll last forever😉 60‘000 miles and no rust, bright blue. Looking forward to a few years of fun😌

Of all the cars you've bought Matt, this one really was crying out for a set of plates... and u didn't do them 😂

I worked at a Citroen dealer in the late 1990s and the Saxo special editions always sold really well. When a youngster could get an ‘as new’ 1.1 3 door pre reg for under £5k on finance and drive out feeling a million dollars. We’d get a batch of a dozen or so in twice a year they’d all sell within a week.

No need to pay more than £1295 for a ULEZ compliant vehicle. "This vehicle meets the ULEZ emissions standards" according to the online checker!

I have saxo 1.4 from 1997

As a Canadian, we haven’t had Citroens for almost 50 years, when I see a little Saxo like this I see a little rally car

I mean, it's 2023, I'm 39, and I'd still have a Saxo as my first car... (if I could ever get lessons sorted out around shift work!)

They're still around in Portugal, not a very rare sight. The reason I came for this video is because I'm about to buy one converted to GPL because of the rising cost of gas, for my daily commute. I've driven one about 20 years ago at my old job, and I'm excited to (hopefuly) drive it again soon!

I hate to admit, I had a 1980 Ford Pinto as my first car! Please to laugh mate, I got my license in 1988 and bought it for $900.00 US Dollars. It even had working AC! I was pretty fly for a white guy!

This video was great for the comical value at least. 😂

I think you’ve done really well with that Saxo, another saved. 👌😁👍

I bought a VTR saxo with 45k miles on the clock ten years ago for £700 it was an absolute maniac to drive but I had fun with it. I kinda wish I still had it. It got replaced with a Puma, although more refined no where near as much fun to rag about in.

Why did Matt say it's only good for one year then needs to be scrapped?

I wish there'd still be cars like this 😢
Small, cheap and simple

"When's the last time you saw a Saxo, they're just not on the roads anymore, they've al been scrapped", yes Matt, they have.....there's a reason for that. When a car becomes the symbol of a generation of young male drivers who drive too fast and crash a lot, then they tend to end up scrapped. And you said it yourself, they had lots of problems.

just picked up a running driving saxo with an expired mot for £250 round the corner from me

Ooooh my first car was a Saxo, a VTS even (in gold) but we didn't get the 1.6l engine here in Norway. So had to make do with the 1.4l , still an amazingly fun car to drive around in. Had it for 3 years when I sold it to a friend and he had it for around 1 year before it was sent to the scrapyard. Had developed a few problems that would cost more than the cars worth fixing. Like the immobilizer going nuts and refusing to recognize the key if you took it out, pain to get it started again. ABS module was broken and it had a strange problem with keeping idle if it needed to kick on the cooling fan. Oh and it had leak in the sunroof we could not figure out.

EDIT: Had to go check out the Saxo forums, used to be quite the lively place a good few years ago but it is almost deserted now. Sad to see.

My grandad has a 2001 saxo diesel. Even though the power steering and air con failed recently, its generally been great. Torquey with the diesel and handles very nicely, but it gets very loud and it is a really small car. Love it though.

Getting very rare saxo desires there's only less than 100 left on uk roads

My granny had one of these. It was the most shit great car ever. When she got a hyundai i10 she gave it to my dad. It was not a good car. But it was fun and admittedly quite cool

Was a cool car as my first car as well

No fuel i would of given him 300 pounds take it or leave it.

It was a car I never liked. My first car was a proper shaped ford fiesta and I still regret selling it. Rough 1.3 engine, wind up windows, no central locking no air con but it had a sunroof and was my first taste of freedom

Great replacement for Citroen AX

Somebody smoked spliffs and that car because big roaches in fags and brown thin rizla that's why no fag smell they were blazing

I had a head on collision with a youngster in a saxo. She and her mum had no seatbelts on and hit the windscreen. I was in a tdci focus estate so ombilterated the saxo.

Dodson’s is actually more birstal,

My mate had one as his first car when we were in sixth form, and we used to go blitzing down country lanes in it late on a Friday night. If you watched crash tests of the car, or pressed on the flexible roof, you'd probably make an informed decision not to do what we did. Terrifying little thing, but great to zip around in and deserved its place as the car of choice for new drivers. The head gasket went after a couple of years. He has a V8 Vantage now, naturally.

Fun fact is that Saxo is a slang for b job in Turkish. Despite this Saxo sold very well in Turkey back in the day...

Put a new set of plates on the hearse and it would instantly lift it :)

I owned this saxo back in 2016 and sold it back to the guy you bought from. Did you find the welding in the engine bay over the arches?😂. I believe i was the only person to do any maintenance in the last 8 years. Cheap and fun. I wish i had kept it! Foot to the floor on the m62. 0-60, 3 working days.

Rear brake cyclinder failed one evening on the way home which was a lovely surprise whilst coming upto the traffic lights on red. Handbrake and 2nd gear were helpful that day!

you are amizing man i love this type

Nice basic car

I love seeing 90s and early 2000s car still going obsessed with the niche of them

I currently own a saxo and in process of building it into a max power car

its a bit of matematicl miscalculation here .
so the total woould be : 350+150+421+ the rest its made about 1.312£ to finish. so not big profit if its sold 1.295.......😂

Never driven one never had any desire to own one...My first car was a 1983 Ford Cortina in 1990

What a death trap

we had one of these years a go ,no frills cheap car ,missis never forgave me px it . she just said id swap that for me 06 fiesta ! great content mate thanks

I ha d one back in 97 a R reg 1.4 I think it was an Se, in Fijian blue , not a bad little car .

I'm dying to know what was wrong was wrong with the civic!