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Toyoda

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Thanks to my car being long in the tooth, and me fancying a change I’m on the lookout for another car. Due to covid and a house move I’m doing less frequent but longer journeys. At present I do a 1 and a half hour round trip (70 miles total) 2 or 3 times a week. This may pick up if we all return to work in which case that journey will be more like 5 times a week. The round trip is about one third town driving, two thirds on good stretches of NSL A Roads.

I only want a manual gearbox, but would take petrol or diesel. Small or mid sized (no 2 seaters unfortunately) rather than a barge due to limited on street parking and preference! Needs to be something with a mild amount of shove, nothing silly but then again anything puny wouldn’t suffice. Ideally looking at 2015 or newer, budget £10k max. The market seems to have ground to a near halt lately so I’m not exactly spoilt for choice. I started off thinking of warm hatches like a Ceed GT or a Leon 1.8 TSi but there’s very few about so I’m happy to broaden my horizons. Maybe one of the many 130bhp ish diesel family hatchbacks would do the job?

Ankh87

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Kia Proceed GT - 210BHP 1.6 petrol
Mazda 3 2.2d
Skoda Octavia VRS 2.0 Petrol. You can even get the estate version.

There are a lot of others like the Kia Ceed GT-Line or Vaux Astra etc. Pretty much on your budget you have a wide arrange of cars.

What I found when looking for a motorway cruiser were I looked at the Kia Ceed 1.4d (114bhp i think) it had good enough grunt for say 50mph speed limits but above that seemed a little slow to react. Was a nice car but with me on the motorway a lot I got a more powerful car.

For you if you aren't doing motorway daily then it's probably enough.

Edited by Ankh87 on Tuesday 15th September 16:31

ZX10R NIN

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