Estate Choice: Saab/Subaru/BMW...?

[Job38]

Comments please....

In need of an estate for family and hound....

Criteria:

Manual
Quick(ish)
Budget (£2-5,000)
(NOT Audi)

Thinking:

Saab 9-5 Aero
Subaru Legacy 3.0 Type R
BMW 530i

[V8Wagon]

Accord....

Not one of the usual suspects, but I can heartily recommend the Accord as a family bus. Nice to drive, well screwed together, great spec and very reliable. Massive boot too!

Executive with toys..


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...



Sportier Type-S

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2013...

[Fox-]

Good luck with the 530i. They only sold 40 530i Sport Touring with a manual gearbox, so finding one for sale let alone finding enough for sale to allow you to pick the diamond out of the rough that is the bottom of the BMW market is sadly going to be virtually impossible

[Job38]

Accord - ok, I have yo confess I know nothing about them, like the look, what are the engine options?

530i - I had no idea they were do rare! That's why I discounted a 540. And I thought to find a good 850 CSi was challenging...!

[MattYorke]

I bought a 2002 Saab 9-5 Aero Hot (admittedly an auto) last weekend for substantially under your budget. I'm absolutely blown away by it - they represent amazing value for money and are commonly owned by enthusiasts, so well looked after and maintained.

Edited by MattYorke on Friday 8th February 22:27

[V8Wagon]

Job38 said:

Accord - ok, I have yo confess I know nothing about them, like the look, what are the engine options?

530i - I had no idea they were do rare! That's why I discounted a 540. And I thought to find a good 850 CSi was challenging...!

Engine options are minimal.

2.0 Petrol, 2.4 Petrol, 2.2 Derv

The 2.4 Petrol is a very smooth motor tbh. Not super quick but it pulls very well and is fast enough(around 190bhp I think). Six speed box in the Type-S iirc.

[Job38]

Thanks for info., Accord not enough power I'm afraid...

Why are these estates SO rare....?!

[V8Wagon]

Job38 said:

Thanks for info., Accord not enough power I'm afraid...

Why are these estates SO rare....?!

I came so so close a few weeks ago to buying an uber rare manual 540i Sport touring. It was close to me, I test drove it and it drove nice....just very iffy in the paintwork dept.

[muckymotor]

A quick estate and no mention of Volvo? My T5 was £1500



And it can do this at the weekend

Edited by muckymotor on Friday 8th February 23:41

[RB Will]

Used to have a Legacy, u want to try and get the spec b if you can, can't recommend it enough, loads of room, fun to drive comfy, if ur thinking of family I think when it came out it was the safest car tested?

[otolith]

We were looking for a sub-2k estate - all the German options had been to the moon and/or were photographed outside Delboy's tower block. The 9-5 Aero seemed better value at that price point.

[V8Wagon]

Fox- said:

Good luck with the 530i. They only sold 40 530i Sport Touring with a manual gearbox, so finding one for sale let alone finding enough for sale to allow you to pick the diamond out of the rough that is the bottom of the BMW market is sadly going to be virtually impossible

One of the 40 for sale here..

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2013...