£2.5k economical car...

[wagon and horses]

Evening all,

I may have the need for a daily driver to do a 120mile round trip a day.

I am struggling to find any information on cheapish economical cars. I have no real restrictions with respect to # of seats, body style etc

Anyone got any ideas? I currently get 35mpg and would be looking to improve on it.

Cheers

[550Hep]

The Saab 9-5 2.0 EcoPower I have just had seems to be managing just about that on a mixed but mostly m-way regime, mine is a nice one and was the best part of a bag of sand less than your budget.

Edited by 550Hep on Tuesday 6th April 23:14

[wagon and horses]

My old man has a 9-5 2.3lpt - nice car, economy doesnt seem to be its forte though.

[550Hep]

I think the 2.3 is somewhat worse, mine is a 2.0 EcoPower with a manual box, I can say with confidence 2 tanks of fuel in and I am seeing the best part of 500 miles from a tank full which works out to circa 34mpg.

[dougc]

Peugeot 406 diesel.

Seriously.

Plenty of kit, big comfy seats and billions of mpg.

[DanGPR]

My dad makes a 150 mile a day round trip in his 53 golf gt tdi, gets 50mpg. It's reliable too, just cracked 200k, owned from new.

[550Hep]

dougc said:

Peugeot 406 diesel.

Seriously.

Plenty of kit, big comfy seats and billions of mpg.

I looked at a couple of 607 2.2hdi's when I was hunting and they seem to be well spec'd and a little more left of center. Same good MPG I would think.

[Wigeon Incognito]

[shameless plug]Hmmm, the MX-5 I have for sale in the classifieds can be persuaded to do 35mpg with a light foot. And the size of the grin on your face is surely worth 10mpg. So, 45mpg all told.[/shameless plug]

Yet I daren't obviously post the link as I feel the relationship between this thread and that car is too tenuous...

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1619128.htm

Edited by Wigeon Incognito on Tuesday 6th April 23:34

[annodomini2]

Mk2 Clio DCi 1.5, regularly get over 65mpg on a run, £35 a year road tax, Group 4 insurance.

[MondeoMan1981]

206 1.4hdi

£30 road tax, £190 fully comp insurance.

You will crack 70mpg easily. I sit at 70mph and get 66mpg. Drop 5-10mph and you will wonder if the fuel gauge has stopped working.

Its also good for my health as I am not buying chocolate so often as my trips to the petrol station have been halved

[FrankHovis]

Depends how bothered you are about image. I do a 140 mile round trip 4 times a week. I use an old Vectra 2.2 DTi. Its big and comfortable enough to do the mileage easily and I'm getting over 50mpg with ease. Cost me 1500 quid and is very reliable. I've secretly got quite a soft spot for it and what was originally supposed to be a work snotter, now gets cleaned and polished more regularly than it should