What good B road car

[Flipatron]

Elise S1 or if you're luck an S2.

[wemorgan]

IMHO the Elise doesn't meet quite a few of the OP criteria. Most significantly it's RWD and few praise it for it's all weather performance. Great communication through the controls however

wifiwupding said:

What im looking for:

Flexible engine with good low down power so no vtecs and the like
Petrol
FWD or 4WD
Good communication through the controls
Good stability
Good all weather performance
Roughly 30+ mpg
fairly quick

[skyrover]

RWD to FWD???

your doing it wrong

[Burrito]

Vladimir said:

Mk4 Golf R32?
Plenty of torque, sounds great, good in bad conditions.

That was my thought after reading the OP's amended criteria. Not sure what the feedback's like?

Look like a good value second-hand purchase now:
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/v...

[bencollins4]

Golf MK5 GTI - think it fulfills pretty much everything depending on your definition of fairly quick.

Should get a decent 2006/7 car at that budget.

[wifiwupding]

skyrover said:

RWD to FWD???

your doing it wrong

Haha no I think on a track RWD makes seance but on the road where 50% of the time its wet and the road surface is a little unpredictable at times, id prefer FWD or 4WD (although ive never tried a 4WD car) maybe its just the car I have but I find RWD just too unstable in the wet therefor less fun because you have to rain yourself in to avoid wildly over steering, i just don't feel comfortable driving at the limit (not after an experience on a wet motorway corner once anyway ) but with FWD you can do it without that worry.

[wifiwupding]

Burrito said:

Vladimir said:

Mk4 Golf R32?
Plenty of torque, sounds great, good in bad conditions.

That was my thought after reading the OP's amended criteria. Not sure what the feedback's like?

Look like a good value second-hand purchase now:
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/v...

Good idea but are the running cost just about the same as an impreza