Panda 100hp or Suzuki Swift Sport?
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Need a cheap second car for a bit and preferably something really small, so with £1600 -1800 to spend I cant see much better than these two.
Which is best???
Like the Panda as I like Pandas, but 10 year old 80k plus milers are bound to be a bit ropey, dont have any experience of the Swift at all.
Thoughts?
Which is best???
Like the Panda as I like Pandas, but 10 year old 80k plus milers are bound to be a bit ropey, dont have any experience of the Swift at all.
Thoughts?
Aaronlal95 said:
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t I just re read.. £1.8k you say.. The old ones cant be that bad either. Japanese too so they should be fairly bulletproof
im not so sure, they are a full on emerging markets car built super low cost to do well in india (which they do). this doesnt mean they are bad per say but i wouldnt expect any quality in depth i.e. bulletproof as you say.t I just re read.. £1.8k you say.. The old ones cant be that bad either. Japanese too so they should be fairly bulletproof
Panda is great fun in an 'old mini' kind of way. You are in no way cossetted or isolated from the driving experience. 60mph on a B-road feels like 200, the complete antitheses of most modern cars. It's never going to win any traffic light GPs but as you rightly say, EVO raved about it and VBH even pitted it against some Ferrari on a kart track It lost, but the video summed up what the car is about. Mine has 70k on it, I did less than 1000 miles this year and it has been very reliable, seems to run on fresh air compared with other cars I have owned.
I have never driven the Suzuki and I imagine much of what I have said about to the Panda will equally apply there too.
I have never driven the Suzuki and I imagine much of what I have said about to the Panda will equally apply there too.
Swift all day long! IMO it is much better looking and the interior is nicer, with regard to reliability you won't get much better. I ran a Suzuki dealership for a long time and after a while we realised we were wasting money paying for warranties on our used cars because the claims were so minimal, instead we just paid for any odd bits that came up in the first 6 months.
Jag_NE said:
Aaronlal95 said:
st I just re read.. £1.8k you say.. The old ones cant be that bad either. Japanese too so they should be fairly bulletproof
im not so sure, they are a full on emerging markets car built super low cost to do well in india (which they do). this doesnt mean they are bad per say but i wouldnt expect any quality in depth i.e. bulletproof as you say.t I just re read.. £1.8k you say.. The old ones cant be that bad either. Japanese too so they should be fairly bulletproofI like both and have considered them before. I really like the Panda but i'd probably go for the Swift, just for the extra grunt. there's not much in it though and both a pretty solid cars.
Swift all day long; as others have said it's cheap and cheerful but indestructible. Ours is just a cooking 1.5 Auto but it's a cracking runabout that eats the miles; despite looking at a variety of alternatives just can't find anything to replace it without spending fortunes. I can only imagine a Sport builds on these qualities even further.
Thanks for the info - what no one has said is how hard it to get one bought! I'm calling a number of listings that advertise as traders and the phone just rings out !!
Private sellers are better, but often the car is sold and they haven't removed the listing.
Guess its a sellers market!
Private sellers are better, but often the car is sold and they haven't removed the listing.
Guess its a sellers market!
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