First car for girlfriend

[ccmaxcc]

Any ideas of nice first car for my girlfriend. My budget to spend is around £3500. obviously it needs to be cheap to Insure.

[davepoth]

What's she learning in?

[poing]

Might need a few more criteria here like:

Big and safe or small and cute - the car, not her.
Miles per year roughly
Manual or auto
Does she like red?

Help us out a little.

[iva cosworth]

Picture of the girlfriend for "research" purposes will help us decide.

[anonymous-user]

How long you been with her? Will she do a runner?

[BobSaunders]

iva cosworth said:

Picture of the girlfriend for "research" purposes will help us decide.

+1

How long have you been in the relationship? One month? buy her some flowers.

[clowesy]

Would you consider a new car paid for each month? My girlfriend bought herself a VW Up! on a PCP for £500 down and £149 per month with first year free insurance and 3 years free servicing. Has heated seats, sat nav, Bluetooth, DAB radio. It is a fantastic little car: it's a right giggle to drive; has sufficient poke; does many miles to the gallon and feels massive inside. I would highly recommend one.

[Axionknight]

My girlfriends first car was a Suzuki Swift, 1.5 petrol, for around that budget (bought for £3600 IIRC), great little car, reliable and reasonably well built, cheap to run and not a bad steer.

She liked the Swift so much she bought a Swift Sport after just less than a year - also a great motor, as an aside.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

ccmaxcc said:

Any ideas of nice first car for my girlfriend.

Sounds like a fair swap...any preference of car?

[dazwalsh]

You should be able to pick up a youngish c1 or aygo etc for that money, and insurance on those shouldn't be too bad. 1.0l petrol?

[epom]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

ccmaxcc said:

Any ideas of nice first car for my girlfriend.

Sounds like a fair swap...any preference of car?

:-)