What fairly recent estate?

What fairly recent estate?

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Tmrtom

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102 posts

96 months

Tuesday 20th February
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My dad is on the hunt for second hand estate - key requirements are not much more than 5 years old, sub 30000 miles, reliable - and ideally a decent steer - he does enjoy driving but values reliability and usability over performance.

Needs to be a C or D segment car, doesn’t need anything huge like an E class.

Open to petrol, hybrid or diesel as long as it’s decent economy and reliable - doesn’t do mega miles but does enough long journeys regularly to clear any dpfs etc. He has also said he doesn’t want a small engine in this size of car - no 1.0 to 1.2 litres in a car of this size.

What would you recommend that best meets this brief? He likes some of the vag estates but the engines are a minefield by the look of it - some with good reps and some with terrible and I’m not sure which is which!

Budget is about 15k.

Thanks for any advice.

Tmrtom

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102 posts

96 months

Wednesday 21st February
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Thanks everyone - think he’s interested in the Octavia now. What engine would people most recommend?

Tmrtom

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102 posts

96 months

Thursday 22nd February
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Cheers everyone. Funnily enough I’d recommended the Corolla estate but he’d discounted it due to price even though he liked the look of it. I’ll mention that to him about upping the mileage a bit (don’t think there’s much scope to up the budget) to see if he could get into one of those. Must admit, still a bit confused re the VAG engines from the comments above - is the 1.5tsi good or not? Think a 1.2 would be a bit small in Octavia sized car.

Tmrtom

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102 posts

96 months

Thursday 22nd February
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Also, anyone got any experience of the Kia Proceed / Optima? They seem decent value to me in his budget.