What car: Medium sized hatch recommendations
What car: Medium sized hatch recommendations
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Chris71

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21,549 posts

271 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Mrs Chris71 needs a sensible mid-sized hatch for up to £2k. It needs to come with four doors, as many airbags and NCAP stars as possible and a reasonably frugal attitude to fuel. Decent motorway refinement (relatively speaking) would be good too.

To me this screams Focus or Golf, but which one? Failing that, are their any other options we should consider?

She doesn't want anything particularly large, so an Octavia could be tricky to argue. To be honest, I don't know a great deal about the Leon or A3 of the era you'd find in our price range.

We've had a mk1 Focus in the past, which ticked most of the boxes. The only thing is, it began consuming oil at a great rate shortly before a nice gentleman on the A1 drove his 3-Series into us at speed and wrote off both cars. Now they're all getting a bit long in the tooth, does anyone know if that's something to watch out for on the 1.6 Focus? Piston rings or something?

kutaface

36 posts

146 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Honda Civic 1.6 S



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Chris71

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21,549 posts

271 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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kutaface said:
Honda Civic 1.6 S



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Have to confess I hadn't thought of that option. Will have a Google.

The mk4 Astra seems to be a better car than I'd given it credit for too.

Chris71

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21,549 posts

271 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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No one? Basically thinking Focus, Golf, Astra.

krisdelta

4,670 posts

230 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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A Honda Jazz could do the job? Not very exciting, but good seating position with good visiblity and a doddle to drive / park.

Chris71

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21,549 posts

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Wednesday 30th July 2014
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krisdelta said:
A Honda Jazz could do the job? Not very exciting, but good seating position with good visiblity and a doddle to drive / park.
Would prefer something a bit larger for motorway use (and the next time someone drives into us).