Economical used car under £4500

Economical used car under £4500

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CarGit81

Original Poster:

5 posts

2 months

Hi all, looking to sell my 09 Aygo and upgrade slightly. Budget is 4500, mostly use it as runaround and occasional 70 mile round trip once a month, but would like something I can take into wales on tour as well. Not interested in bells and whistles, just something reliable and cheap to run. Any suggestions?

Pickle_Rick

469 posts

73 months

2013 onwards - yaris

Every other brand will be a downgrade reliability wise. Doubt you'll get a hybrid for that price, so id probably go for the 1.33 engine.

Davie

5,496 posts

228 months

That's a broad brief... literally hundreds of cars that could fit that requirement depending on your own views. Petrol? Diesel? Is space an issue? Auto? Any preferred brands etc etc...

RSTurboPaul

11,835 posts

271 months

Panda 100hp?

Matt_T

784 posts

87 months

With that mileage and budget I think I'd avoid hybrids and diesels and stick with a simple petrol.

My choice would be a Civic 1.8
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/18366056

Edited by Matt_T on Monday 12th May 23:31

Trevor555

4,636 posts

97 months

Yesterday (07:35)
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Vw Up, Skoda Ctigo, Seat Mii..

All basicly the same car.

Get a pre April 2017 car for £20 road tax.

Post Dec 2016 Mii's got slight upgrades like better radio.


CarGit81

Original Poster:

5 posts

2 months

Yesterday (10:04)
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Cheers for the suggestions, definitely looking at a low tax option (£35 or under). Not sure what to prioritise for reliability, higher mileage and newer or lower mileage and older. Any advice? Again reliability and keeping costs down are priorities!

Trevor555

4,636 posts

97 months

Yesterday (11:49)
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CarGit81 said:
Cheers for the suggestions, definitely looking at a low tax option (£35 or under). Not sure what to prioritise for reliability, higher mileage and newer or lower mileage and older. Any advice? Again reliability and keeping costs down are priorities!
Our family fleet includes all three of the cars I mentioned.

Combined ownership of them all is 12 years.

No faults at all, just servicing, albeit they're all low mileage.

The best spec of the cars in your budget will be the Mii Design, Jan 2017 to pre April 2017 when the RFL went up. Look for the one's with the leather steering wheel, and later type radio. That model had quite a few upgrades over the 2016 car including heated mirrors, which I wouldn't want to be without in winter.



Edited by Trevor555 on Tuesday 13th May 11:51

paul_c123

483 posts

6 months

Yesterday (12:16)
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Weirdly, plenty of Euro 5 diesel cars tick the boxes on this one. By chance, my Golf convertible (2012, 1.6TDI but the 2.0TDI manuals also) are £35 tax, as I suspect are the hatchbacks too, of that era (Golf 6). Of course, its a bit older and bigger, and would be higher mileage than the suggestions so far.

Budget - well mine was £2000 but I think I got a good deal there. But others should be available under £4500.