Ideas for a fastish estate with £5k budget

[stem]

I'm after a quickisk estate car and have a budget of £5k.

Potential cars I thought of might be:
Audi RS6
BMW 330/530 Touring
Passat/Octavia V6 Estate
Octavia VRS Estate

Is there anything else obvious I should consider?
TIA,
Ste.

[Willy Nilly]

stem said:

I'm after a quickisk estate car and have a budget of £5k.

Is there anything else obvious I should consider?

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[milu]

Vectra vxr

[Bonefish Blues]

Legacy

[NailedOn]

Bonefish Blues said:

Legacy

http://www4.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201504122545838/sort/atcustom/usedcars/page/1/make/subaru/radius/1500/engine-size-cars/3l_to_3-9l/model/outback/postcode/dl128pn/channel/cars/price-to/5000/onesearchad/used?logcode=p

Or it's taller brother, the Outback.
I recently sold mine. 80,000 trouble free miles. Rapid. 28mpg. Great all weather handling.

Edited by NailedOn on Saturday 23 May 18:16

[The Big G]

You didn't mention age so how about the other ones that are normally listed alongside the legacy.

Nissan stagea
Mitsubishi Galant/legnum VR4

http://www.pistonheads.com/Gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by The Big G on Saturday 23 May 09:50

[Pentoman]

Willy Nilly said:

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Ha!

None of those float my boat so here a leftfield suggestion - Laguna GT 205. Megane Renaultsport's turbo petrol engine and the ride/handling balance to make an Octavia feel like a skip lorry. I tracked one once.

You'll still need the breakdown cover, though.

[The Badger]

A 5k RS6. Bravery / lunacy set to 11

[confused_buyer]

Another leftfield one: Citroen C5 2.7/3.0 HDI Exclusive.

The V70 T5/T6 is another for the list.

[Hoofy]

AMG something?

Willy Nilly said:

Breakdown cover

Are those models that bad?

[Rikki55]

Could probably get a decent Volvo V70T5 or older V70R which will fit in that budget!

[Willy Nilly]

Hoofy said:

AMG something?

Willy Nilly said:

Breakdown cover

Are those models that bad?

In the link for the RS6, which is this one, http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/a... there is one on there for £86,500. Exactly what calibre of performance car that started life over £80,000 can be bought for 5 grand? It will be a worn out, leaking, pile of scrap. A colleague bought a 56 plate 525i for £9,995 3 years ago and it wants weighing in, an utter heap of crap.

[Hoofy]

Willy Nilly said:

Hoofy said:

AMG something?

Willy Nilly said:

Breakdown cover

Are those models that bad?

In the link for the RS6, which is this one, http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/a... there is one on there for £86,500. Exactly what calibre of performance car that started life over £80,000 can be bought for 5 grand? It will be a worn out, leaking, pile of scrap. A colleague bought a 56 plate 525i for £9,995 3 years ago and it wants weighing in, an utter heap of crap.

Ohhhh. Fair point.

How bad is that 525i then?

[Willy Nilly]

Hoofy said:

Ohhhh. Fair point.

How bad is that 525i then?

You know how a 6 cylinder BMW should purr like a content cat? Well imagine a Simca that's not had an oil change for 5 years. Most of the rear lights work. It spent several weeks at work parked over a pool of it's own coolant, chomps its way through batteries, the dash is lit up like Southend sea front and it's not taxed, insured or MOT'd. But it looks the part and the Polish driver can lord it around.

[ZX10R NIN]

here are some Fastish Estates with less than 100k

Saab 9-5 34k miles
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Bio 9-5 48k
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Passat 244bhp
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

A4 190bhp
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

5
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

3 Series
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

C Class
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Subaru
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

[InfamousKeiran]

£5,000 budget eh?

AUDI S4 B5
You won't pick up an RS4 for this amount and I wouldn't even look at an RS6 at this price, let alone if you could find one.
From my understanding just change the turbos over to RS4 spec along with the downpipes and you have an RS4 in S4 clothing, well engine wise...

Legacy GTI or a Legacy Spec R?

Vectra VXR or a Saab 9-3 with the V6 is the basically the same as a VXR just with a better image.

Saab 9-5 Aero HOT, stage 3 which consists of a 3" downpipe and an uprated FPR then pop over to Karl and he'll give you M3 pace - In gear times at least.

[CampDavid]

Willy Nilly said:

Hoofy said:

AMG something?

Willy Nilly said:

Breakdown cover

Are those models that bad?

In the link for the RS6, which is this one, http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/a... there is one on there for £86,500. Exactly what calibre of performance car that started life over £80,000 can be bought for 5 grand? It will be a worn out, leaking, pile of scrap. A colleague bought a 56 plate 525i for £9,995 3 years ago and it wants weighing in, an utter heap of crap.

I bought a 2001 BMW 740i which somone had spent £60,000 new, I paid £2000. 3 days later I was doing 150mph on the autobahn on the way to the N24. Did a lap of the 'ring in it to. It was a good car and had lots spent on it through it's life and I spent the same again on it in the first year (actually a little more, however most of that was preventative as I planned on keeping it forever) but it was very, very far from needing to be weighed in. 3 years later it's still going strong and proving to be an epic thing to knock around in.

[Steve H]

The Subaru option is a no-brainer for me, £4k for a decent spec Legacy with only 70k on the clock is crazy cheap. On Autotrader petrol 5 series tourings in the same price bracket are all older and/or higher miles and they are very unlikely to as reliable.

[Motorrad]

Steve H said:

The Subaru option is a no-brainer for me, £4k for a decent spec Legacy with only 70k on the clock is crazy cheap. On Autotrader petrol 5 series tourings in the same price bracket are all older and/or higher miles and they are very unlikely to as reliable.

Legacy is a good choice.

I'd also consider an Impreza wagon- you'll get a good one for 5K.

Not a fan of black wheels but something along these lines


http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/s...

[MattYorke]

I principally agree although one sold last year for 5.5K that appeared sound, and some do change hands for 7.5ish which could be OK if you know what to look for. But it's a big risk and realistically, a 5-9K RS6 will potentially need 5K spending on it to bring it back up to spec. And even if you get a good one, maintenance is pretty high - e.g. a cambelt change books at about 9 hours of labour, in addition to the 300 quid ish for parts.

The message is, I think, if 5K is the OPs budget, he probably can't afford to run it unless you have the skills and space to maintain it properly. Otherwise, it'll have one major break which you'll reluctantly fix and then sell it on again. Perhaps drop the budget further and do shed motoring - my saab 9-5 aero hot was 1100 three years ago and still goes well. Keep on top of the servicing and minor bits - but one major break and we'll probably just replace it. Or at least, go for something less extreme than an RS6.

Willy Nilly said:

In the link for the RS6, which is this one, http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/a... there is one on there for £86,500. Exactly what calibre of performance car that started life over £80,000 can be bought for 5 grand?