Another What car? thread for you all to get your teeth into.

[HorneyMX5]

Hi All,

After some ideas. My Dad curently drives an Alfa GT Blackline JTD which is falling apart and dropping oil all over the driveway. He's recently retired and I'm trying to point him at something petrol as he's goign to be doing pretty low annual mileage. I've not asked on budget but for now lets say £10K max. The critera are along the following:

• £10K budget
• Coupe-ish (That's what he loved about the GT)
• Fun to drive
• Petrol with 40mpg or above if driven like a pensioner (which he is)
• Reasonable running costs
• Less than 100,000 miles
• Not older than 2007-ish
• 4 usable seats.
• Nothing french

So we do we all reckon? I was thinking along the lines of a 1 series coupe of some sort but not really clued up on the engines in these. He loves the Scirocco but I want to give him some more choice and options.

Over to the PH masses.

Edited by HorneyMX5 on Friday 13th February 09:45

Edited by HorneyMX5 on Friday 13th February 09:58

[R2T2]

Scirocco is a good shout.

Audi TT?
3 series coupe?
What about something like a Mercedes CLS? Not sure about the 40mpg though.

[kambites]

What exactly do you mean by "usable rear seats"? Are we talking about taking his two toddle grand-children to the local park, or three adult basket-ball players to the other end of the country?

[HorneyMX5]

kambites said:

What exactly do you mean by "usable rear seats"? Are we talking about taking his two toddle grand-children to the local park, or three adult basket-ball players to the other end of the country?

A couple of normal sized adults for a day out.

[PompeyPaul]

Scirocco +1. Previously had the 2.0 petrol which was a nice car. Not the fastest in the world but a decent drive and 100% reliable during ownership of 18 months or so. Back seats fine for adults for long journeys (I am 6ft and they were fine behind me).

[SturdyHSV]

I tried, too old though?

HorneyMX5 said:

• £10K budget - Check
• Coupe-ish (That's what he loved about the GT) - Check
• Fun to drive - Check
• Petrol with 40mpg or above if driven like a pensioner (which he is) - Over 20mpg easily and it's LPG? Check?
• Reasonable running costs - Cheap to service, simple cars, brakes maybe expensive
• Less than 100,000 miles - Check
• Not older than 2007-ish - Quite a big 'ish'
• 4 usable seats. - Huge seats and very comfy front or back

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/vauxhall/monaro/vauxhall-monaro-cv8-lpg-conversion-------------2004/3314158

[Impasse]

Feeling brave? Renault Laguna GT 3 door. There's one or two in PH classifieds.

[HorneyMX5]

Ah should have adeed, nothing french. lol.

[stephen300o]

Two MX5s.

[CountZero23]

stephen300o said:

Two MX5s.

Class

[Agoogy]

Has to be:
BMW 3 series
Scirocco
Brera

[ZX10R NIN]

[quote=HorneyMX5]Hi All,

After some ideas. My Dad curently drives an Alfa GT Blackline JTD which is falling apart and dropping oil all over the driveway. He's recently retired and I'm trying to point him at something petrol as he's goign to be doing pretty low annual mileage. I've not asked on budget but for now lets say £10K max. The critera are along the following:

• £10K budget
• Coupe-ish (That's what he loved about the GT)
• Fun to drive
• Petrol with 40mpg or above if driven like a pensioner (which he is)
• Reasonable running costs
• Less than 100,000 miles
• Not older than 2007-ish
• 4 usable seats.
• Nothing french

So we do we all reckon? I was thinking along the lines of a 1 series coupe of some sort but not really clued up on the engines in these. He loves the Scirocco but I want to give him some more choice and options.

Over to the PH masses.

Personally from the list below I'd choose the CLK, I have a Clk63, Clk320 cdi & having sold my 160,000 mile 2005 CLK270 without anything going wrong I reckon your dad won't go wrong with a diesel one of those, the petrols are good as well neither will let you down. Most modern cars are fairly reliable though.

Does it really have to be Petrol & do 40mpg? The Scirocco will only be the 1.4 to meet your fuel criteria.

If it does how about these:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

The TT only averages 36mpg (Claimed so you know it'll actually be worse)

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

If you don't mind a diesel:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...


http://eu.hlserve.com/Delivery/Delivery.aspx?hm_CI...

Edited by ZX10R NIN on Friday 13th February 10:42

[Ali_T]

HorneyMX5 said:

My Dad curently drives an Alfa GT Blackline JTD which is falling apart and dropping oil all over the driveway.

It's the oil cooler joints. Get a cheap repair kit from Autolusso. Problem solved. Well, at least that problem anyway!

And petrol and 40mpg+ is going to mean soul destroyingly slow. If he liked the Blackline, a Brera S 3.2 would be the obvious choice and sod the mpg.

[kambites]

HorneyMX5 said:

kambites said:

What exactly do you mean by "usable rear seats"? Are we talking about taking his two toddle grand-children to the local park, or three adult basket-ball players to the other end of the country?

A couple of normal sized adults for a day out.

In that case most 2+2s (like the TT) wont do the job and the old 1-series is borderline. I'd be looking for something in the 3-series sort of class; probably a 2010 on (so four pot turbo) 325i if they're in budget or a 320i if they're not? I don't think a 6-pot will realistically average 40mpg however carefully he drives it (although I might be wrong).

I dare say the A5 and C-class coupe will do a similar job if he prefers them although I'm not sure if they have petrol engines capable of averaging 40mpg.

Edited by kambites on Friday 13th February 11:04