£4k max; frugal, reliable, daily beater for mway commute
Discussion
Bah, may be sensible and reliable but what you really want is
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...
Madness60 said:
Bah, may be sensible and reliable but what you really want is
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...
Nice choice, food for thought therehttp://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...
Fabia VRS.
I used to use mine North Yorkshire to Plymouth every weekend. Very comfortable. Great MPG, performance and easily tunable. My angel tuning remap put MPG up 2 MPG on motorway runs, as well as an extra 50 BHP . Only drawbacks are the crappy colour of the standard seats (Get leather) and the cheap looking dash.
I used to use mine North Yorkshire to Plymouth every weekend. Very comfortable. Great MPG, performance and easily tunable. My angel tuning remap put MPG up 2 MPG on motorway runs, as well as an extra 50 BHP . Only drawbacks are the crappy colour of the standard seats (Get leather) and the cheap looking dash.
Matt UK said:
VW Bora 130tdi seems usefully cheaper than a Golf - thoughts?
Actually a great motorway car with a cavernous boot. I used to have the 115bhp version (same PD engine, different turbo iirc) and it was leathered up, DSP, lots of extra toys, great on the motorway. Pic in my profile - would recommend actually. Returned 50mpg plus at around 80.Some good suggestions so far, and I would submit a mk2 Avensis for your consideration also. Well built, solid and reliable, and economical in either D4-D or petrol 1.8 vvt-i form. Your budget should get a very well specced 2005ish with low miles.
I have the previous model, and I can certainly vouch for the economy. My petrol 2.0 does 45+ mpg week in, week out on my 60 mile per day commute. Sure, it's boring as hell, but that's what my weekend car's for!
I have the previous model, and I can certainly vouch for the economy. My petrol 2.0 does 45+ mpg week in, week out on my 60 mile per day commute. Sure, it's boring as hell, but that's what my weekend car's for!
Was thinking this myself a few weeks ago when I was eying up a job commuting to Leeds everyday from just north of Nottingham, so around 150 mile round trip. It didn't come off so I didn't go much further than thinking
I thought back to when I used to do a similar distance in a Passat TDi (53 plate) and remember the economy to be pretty good. It was a brand new car and even driving like a t
t I couldn't get it under 48 mpg, which got better after 20k on the clock. The problem was the seats killed my back, I just couldn't get comfy in it.
Before that I had a Mondeo 1.8 petrol, which didn't seem to drink that much, and was comfortable, but also refused to accelerate past a certain point.
I have a Focus at the moment, and on a 200 mile round trip earlier in the week the OBC was showing 58 mpg. That tends to lie a bit though, so if you say 50 to the gallon, thats not bad. And that was some motorway, some A road, and some sitting around in traffic around Altrincham. Having a 6th gear helps it out a bit
I was thinking of something to replace it with that had better MPG, and seriously thought about buying the poverty spec C1 and kitting it out with some decent seats. Also looked at the Yaris 1.4D and the Insight, but none are really places you want to spend a few hours at a time so I'm sticking with 50+ from the Focus for now
Also, to edit and add, that sort of mileage over a year is going to destroy an existing high miler, or you'll end up punting it on after 6 months while it's still worth something. It's what puts me off 100k 530D's
I thought back to when I used to do a similar distance in a Passat TDi (53 plate) and remember the economy to be pretty good. It was a brand new car and even driving like a t
t I couldn't get it under 48 mpg, which got better after 20k on the clock. The problem was the seats killed my back, I just couldn't get comfy in it. Before that I had a Mondeo 1.8 petrol, which didn't seem to drink that much, and was comfortable, but also refused to accelerate past a certain point.
I have a Focus at the moment, and on a 200 mile round trip earlier in the week the OBC was showing 58 mpg. That tends to lie a bit though, so if you say 50 to the gallon, thats not bad. And that was some motorway, some A road, and some sitting around in traffic around Altrincham. Having a 6th gear helps it out a bit
I was thinking of something to replace it with that had better MPG, and seriously thought about buying the poverty spec C1 and kitting it out with some decent seats. Also looked at the Yaris 1.4D and the Insight, but none are really places you want to spend a few hours at a time so I'm sticking with 50+ from the Focus for now
Also, to edit and add, that sort of mileage over a year is going to destroy an existing high miler, or you'll end up punting it on after 6 months while it's still worth something. It's what puts me off 100k 530D's
Edited by andy-xr on Saturday 1st October 19:05
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