Car Recommendations for Friend - Max £20k - Page 1 - Car Buying

Sc0tchland

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Friday 29th January 2021

Hello,

My friend is looking for a new car and I thought I'd throw it out to the Community for recommendations. I know you always have some great suggestions!
He's looked at the Golf GTD Estate so far, a Jag XF 2.0D and also an Octavia VRS (He's not discounted them, just looking into the wider market)

"Something I could fit the mountain bike in with the seats down"

Max budget- 20k for something special but something between £16 to £18k would be better
Estate / Saloon / coupe (would you consider any)-any
Petrol or diesel? Diesel
Auto or manual? Pref auto
Age? Up to 3 years old
Doors? 5
In terms of MPGS, are you happy with 30,40,50 on the motorway? Mid to high 30's would be ideal
Any specific features you'd like? - cruise control ideally adaptive

Thank you very much!

d_a_n1979

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Sc0tchland said:

Hello,

My friend is looking for a new car and I thought I'd throw it out to the Community for recommendations. I know you always have some great suggestions!
He's looked at the Golf GTD Estate so far, a Jag XF 2.0D and also an Octavia VRS (He's not discounted them, just looking into the wider market)

"Something I could fit the mountain bike in with the seats down"

Max budget- 20k for something special but something between £16 to £18k would be better
Estate / Saloon / coupe (would you consider any)-any
Petrol or diesel? Diesel
Auto or manual? Pref auto
Age? Up to 3 years old
Doors? 5
In terms of MPGS, are you happy with 30,40,50 on the motorway? Mid to high 30's would be ideal
Any specific features you'd like? - cruise control ideally adaptive

Thank you very much!

With that budget the world could be his oyster

What about the likes of a BMW 3 or 5 series touring or a decent spec'd Ford Mondeo estate

IMO if bikes are used and want to be transported; you can't do better than an estate/touring unless a fast saloon is wanted and then look to fit decent roof rails and a bike rack (Thule etc)

A well spec'd and lovely looking touring as an example: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2015-BMW-3-Series-335d-...

stevekoz

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Based on what you are after my recommendation for this thread is the 335d, Circa 2017 so only 3 years old for about 20-22k with haggling for a decent spec'd car with say around the 50k mark.

I have had one.

Great to drive.
Comfortable.

MPG? 40 - 43mpg average in real world.

Speed - Very quick. You don't need full throttle at all to get anywhere past the legal limit of speed, but for what its worth 0-60 was under 5 seconds. That is pretty dam quick!

X-Drive - so very capable in most conditions

Lovely place to spend time. Its very much a great car and i think would answer your friends brief quite well.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202101268...

Sc0tchland

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Very nice, I do like the look of both of these cars. Any other suggestions that I could pass to him?

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