What car for road trip to Budapest?
Discussion
Thinking of doing a road trip to Budapest this summer. Route here:
http://tinyurl.com/2012RoadtripMcC3
Have been looking at getting a new car, and tempted by a small hot hatch (106XSi/GTI, Saxo VTS type thing). How would something like that stand up to this? Not worried about outright speed (usually use my camper for trans-European road trips!), but needs to be reasonably liveable in.
Started thinking a convertible barge (3-series, Audi Cabrio) might be a good option for summer cruising, but then realised that route goes through the Alps so something slightly more involving/chuckable might be good.
Budget (for arguments sake) is £2k.
http://tinyurl.com/2012RoadtripMcC3
Have been looking at getting a new car, and tempted by a small hot hatch (106XSi/GTI, Saxo VTS type thing). How would something like that stand up to this? Not worried about outright speed (usually use my camper for trans-European road trips!), but needs to be reasonably liveable in.
Started thinking a convertible barge (3-series, Audi Cabrio) might be a good option for summer cruising, but then realised that route goes through the Alps so something slightly more involving/chuckable might be good.
Budget (for arguments sake) is £2k.
My BX is coming up towards 190k miles and is getting quite ropey! Is a TD so good on paper, but I'm not sure it would be on one piece after a journey like that. Also not sure I'd particularly enjoy hustling a BX over the Alps
MX5 an interesting proposition (v. PH) but (don't shoot me) I prefer FWD and chuckability. Would consider a bargey RWD where the 'point' is cruising rather than 'proper' driving.
MX5 an interesting proposition (v. PH) but (don't shoot me) I prefer FWD and chuckability. Would consider a bargey RWD where the 'point' is cruising rather than 'proper' driving.
Was looking at Activas but there aren't many about and I hear bad things about what happens to your bank account when things go wrong!
French cars of a certain age ought to cope with lumpy roads based on experience, even hottish hatches have reasonable compliance by modern standards as you say.
French cars of a certain age ought to cope with lumpy roads based on experience, even hottish hatches have reasonable compliance by modern standards as you say.
The road conditions are being exaggerated a bit - vast majority of the major routes in/around Budapest are just same standard as the rest of Europe, it'sonly the rural roads which can be very rough. They tend not to fix the roads it seemed when we drove around Hungary, only warn of bumpy roads and potholes on road signs! Driving standards pretty good to be honest.
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