What car for 2 mile daily commute

[Purso]

Hi

My Mrs has recently got a new job which is nice and local (a little too local) and by the time she gets to work the car is just about hitting water temp so not a great journey for our cars which I am rotating at the moment to try and share the journey.

I am thinking of getting a new car for this and wondered what people suggest, I would like something that is a bit interesting currently the journey is done in a mixture of cars e38 750ill, classic range rover and rs4 b7 (3 days a week the beemer at present) I wondered what for under 10k approx I could get and what type of engine would be best suited for such a brief journey.

Cheers

[Matt UK]

Nissan Leaf

[MTech535]

Legs?

[jjones]

Push bike

[FN2TypeR]

Matt UK said:

Nissan Leaf

This

[HoHoHo]

Walk.

25 each way minutes and good excercise

[Riley Blue]

This is a joke, yes? Even my 67 year old legs could cope with walking or cycling a two mile commute.

[Purso]

our children have to be collected and dropped off at nursery before and after so time is short so walking isnt really an option unfortunately.

[Purso]

could your 67 year old brain compute that if walking was an option I wouldn't be asking what car should I buy? Maybe try exercising that along with your legs

[sawman]

A leaf or zoe, or alternatively any of the plug in hybrids would be perfect for such a small journey

[Purso]

Thanks, that was what I was expecting but was hoping there might be something a little more exciting.

[Matt UK]

Purso said:

Thanks, that was what I was expecting but was hoping there might be something a little more exciting.

Well to be fair any decent car will cope with it. Just give it a blast on the weekends. You won't kill it.

[SWoll]

Matt UK said:

Nissan Leaf

This. You'd probably be able to get way with charging it once a month and wouldn't have to worry about cold engines, DPF etc.

[J4CKO]

I reckon some kind of small diesel would do 40 to the gallon, so one gallon every ten days.

Even my missus has started walking the mile to work. I cycle seven miles, as has been said in various ways, for such a short distance, a car isnt really the correct tool for the job.

[ging84]

I would go with pretty much any car which wasn't designed before 1980.

[Riley Blue]

Purso said:

could your 67 year old brain compute that if walking was an option I wouldn't be asking what car should I buy? Maybe try exercising that along with your legs

No need for drawn handbags, if you'd mentioned you had other requirements I wouldn't have replied as I did, obvs.

[dtmpower]

J4CKO said:

I reckon some kind of small diesel would do 40 to the gallon, so one gallon every ten days..

Got to be the worst suggestion ever ?! DPF , cold running , no heat generated , no time for a regeneration cycle.

For such short distances mpg is irrelevant. If my commute was 2 miles each way = say 100 miles a month, even 10mpg would be affordable compared to the costs of running the car in general.

[Purso]

Im not concerned about the mpg to be honest just dont want half of the cars mileage to be really damaging the car.

[Purso]

Riley Blue said:

Purso said:

could your 67 year old brain compute that if walking was an option I wouldn't be asking what car should I buy? Maybe try exercising that along with your legs

No need for drawn handbags, if you'd mentioned you had other requirements I wouldn't have replied as I did, obvs.

I am not drawing handbags just dont see why you need to be so unhelpful. If you arent interested dont comment.

[Charlie Boy]

Something with a small 3 cylinder petrol engine Fiesta or VW Up, maybe the new GTI version if your looking at new. I had a rental Up for a few days and was suprised by it, better that than the Polo that VW loan me when my golf's in for service.