Fun estate for not much cash
Discussion
I'm getting an urge to change my car. The XC70 has been fantastic but ultimately its an XC70...
I keep looking at Autotrader but just cannot find anything that offers as much to replace it with.
Criteria as follows:
Estate (or something with a good amount of room for dogs etc. I do quite like fast estates however)
Petrol (ideally)
Auto - with flappy paddles (ideally)
Not much older than my current car (07)
Not prone to rot (see shonkey Impreza)
Not £550+ a year to tax
Couldn't care less if FWD, RWD or AWD
Enjoyable to drive (and look at)
Not awful ride quality
I quite fancy something Japanese
Budget 4k (but ideally less)
What have I considered?
Subaru Legacy SpecB (seem to be in the higher tax bracket)
Volvo V70R (had one of these, prices are mostly too high now)
159 V6 Estate (bit on the small side and manual mostly and high tax)
What else should I be considering?
I keep looking at Autotrader but just cannot find anything that offers as much to replace it with.
Criteria as follows:
Estate (or something with a good amount of room for dogs etc. I do quite like fast estates however)
Petrol (ideally)
Auto - with flappy paddles (ideally)
Not much older than my current car (07)
Not prone to rot (see shonkey Impreza)
Not £550+ a year to tax
Couldn't care less if FWD, RWD or AWD
Enjoyable to drive (and look at)
Not awful ride quality
I quite fancy something Japanese
Budget 4k (but ideally less)
What have I considered?
Subaru Legacy SpecB (seem to be in the higher tax bracket)
Volvo V70R (had one of these, prices are mostly too high now)
159 V6 Estate (bit on the small side and manual mostly and high tax)
What else should I be considering?
I was also checking out the 159 V6 Estate but was surprised at the price of most of them......£4K to £6K seems a lot for a year old estate with 100K plus miles even if it is an Alfa. (all the examples I could find where JTD)
I wonder if there seem very optimistic used car dealer pricing going on here?
I wonder if there seem very optimistic used car dealer pricing going on here?
John-4xo95 said:
I was also checking out the 159 V6 Estate but was surprised at the price of most of them......£4K to £6K seems a lot for a year old estate with 100K plus miles even if it is an Alfa. (all the examples I could find where JTD)
I wonder if there seem very optimistic used car dealer pricing going on here?
Most used buyers want the V6 now rather than the diesel so in a way it's more sought after...I wonder if there seem very optimistic used car dealer pricing going on here?
But the holden/GM based V6 isn't as good as Alfa own, and has issues with timing chains/sprockets so be careful as seems an inherent design flaw (same with 4-cyl GM JTSs). There's also issues with the infamous GM gearbox M32 I think, plus in the 159, with 4wd, it's all a bit heavy so performance isn't great.
Despite all that I do like the 159!!
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