Second Car - 20 Years Old, 2.5k ish budget.

[Greengecko]

Hello,

Thanks for taking the time to read this thread.

So I'm approaching 20 years old and am looking at changing my car then, after driving around in my small Ford Fiesta for 2 years which is kindly being donated to a younger family member.

Now, I'm looking for something that fits the following (maybe a bit obtimistic?):
- Costs around £2.5k ish mark
- Not going to completely kill me on insurance!
- Quite nippy, 0-60 in the 7-8sec mark if possible.
- Under 10 years old (sounding too optimistic?)
- Not too many miles on the clock, although if all is mechanically good then I wouldn't mind
- Lastly something that isn't going to make me look like a fool .

Thanks for your help.

Regards

[jonstable]

I may have said this before on other threads, but, MX5

[Greengecko]

Ahh yes, I missed something out.

Unfortunately while being young, I am still involved in ferrying more than one person at a time so will have to be more than a 2 seater .

Regards

[jonstable]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Ah, yes. 3's up in an MX5 is not good!
An E36 3 series of some flavour?
Edit, would have to be an early E46 to be under 10 yrs!

[NismoGT]

Slightly overbudget. Sure you could get one for less.

Quite small though.

Any good?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOYOTA-STARLET-1-3-GT-TU...

[Norbury90]

Greengecko said:

Ahh yes, I missed something out.

Unfortunately while being young, I am still involved in ferrying more than one person at a time so will have to be more than a 2 seater .

Regards

I'm going to buy an MX-5 so I don't have to ferry people around anymore Tell them to walk...

[RJP001]

How about a hot hatch? Mk4 Fiesta Zetec S? Mk5 ST (don't know how much they fetch)?

[IanMorewood]

Alfa GTV or do you really need 5 doors?

[jonstable]

Norbury90 said:

I'm going to buy an MX-5 so I don't have to ferry people around anymore Tell them to walk...

Good plan. Take me a couple of years to come up with it, but it works!

[Greengecko]

IanMorewood said:

Alfa GTV or do you really need 5 doors?

5 Door isn't needed, just minimum of 4 seats .

Regards

[NadiR]

Mk4 Golf GT TDI 130, get one for 2k then spend 300 on getting it remapped. Then you end up with a 165bhp golf that meets your requirements.

[LawAys]

Don't know what ST170s are like on insurance but might be a natural progression up from a Fiesta?

[Greengecko]

Thanks for the replies.

Been looking at the ST170, all seems good apart from them being at the higher end of insurance. About £1.7k, in comparison to the Fiesta ST which is about £1.1k (just checked them).

So possibly one of them two, shall see what I find .

Cheers

[LawAys]

Can you get Fiesta STs for £2.5k these days?

[Greengecko]

Just had a quick look on autotrader, around £3k which I could stretch too I guess .

Regards

[Matt UK]

BMW e36 328i. Maybe a bit older than 10yrs old, but a good one will be worth it.

[T1PP3R]

how about a celica

[utgjon]

I enjoyed my GTV (2 litre) with the same sort of requirements as you.

I will say that although it's a 4-seater, it's not a comfortable experience to travel 4-up.
And the boot is tiny.

But, it was epic fun...and everyone loved it...

What about a 2-litre 156 if you like the idea of an Alfa? They tend to be OK on insurance for younguns too.

[rh123]

A Mk5 Fiesta Zetec S.

[madmover]

Shame about the 4 seats, I have an MX5 MK2 1.8 which costs nothing to run and im 19 also have a TT225 as my other car... If you could stretch your budget a bit a TT is great fun but can be expensive to run. For that id be looking at Fiesta ST, Golf etc