Cheap and economical or cheap and fun?

[insanojackson]

I currently have a rr evoque on order which is not predicted to arrive til early next year. I currently have my 2009 scirocco for sale, hopefully i will sell it in the next month and bank the cash in order to put towards the evoque (whilst residuals are still decent).

This will leave me with a 2002 vx200 n/a to drive til the end of summer. However if my evoque does not arrive until next year i shall need something to see me through the winter from maybe early november.

Now i would be looking to spend at very max £1000 on this car, thing is should i buy the cheapest most sensible and eaily sellable car i can find to see me through or should I buy a barge or more exciting car with 6 mths test/tax and just hope it sees me through a maximum of six months without any major dramas?

Head tells me sensible, heart says something silly but with more than 2 seats, a heater, a boot and a metal roof?

What do you recon? any suggestions??


I would be looking for 30mpg ish on a 18 mile drive to work and no silly insurance groups.

[Kong]

MX5 - get one at the start of winter when the market for them is slow, sell it next summer and it shouldn't have lost a penny. Realiable too.

[insanojackson]

Kong said:

MX5 - get one at the start of winter when the market for them is slow, sell it next summer and it shouldn't have lost a penny. Realiable too.

been there, had an mx5 and as per my post it does not have more than 2 seats or a metal roof, also if i wanted to drive a mx5 in the winter i would just drive the vx220.

[twazzock]

I'd go for cheap and fun. Most warm hatches will have no problem averaging 30mpg and they'll be much more fun than their pov-spec diesel equivalents. Even a modestly-engined barge should be capable of 30mpg.

[Pentoman]

An old 206 will suit all these qualities. Perfect companion to rwd vx220 - fun, economical, slightly old school fwd the likes of which have gone out the window now everything weights 2 tons and has huge tyres. And extremely easy to sell (I advertised mine at work on a whim at an inflated price just to see what happened and had a huge amount of interest, ended up selling to my boss!). Go for early 2000 car or older as these are electrically simple. Avoid later cars which are hyper computerised and thus a disaster. Also, get a looked after one, or have a good test drive before buying, because they're not built like a rock so you will have to fix stuff but it's cheap to do so...

[ikarl]

Mk2 MR2

[chunkymonkey71]

Make it £2000 and have a look at an Ignis Sport.

Hoenstly, I know I'm biased but it is a great fun car and cheap to run.