Most reliable car for £8k

Original Poster

10 posts

43 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020

Spend most of my time lurking however looking to purchase a new daily.

Looking for the most reliable car ideally. Have an XC60 for the wife and child however she returns to work soon so require another car, have a budget of around £8k and looking for something that can keep on going for a few years with little to no work other than usual tyres/breaks etc.

I do around 12k miles for work however live fairly rural so the car will be used to soak up all types of trips like shopping etc so probably looking at 15k+ per year

No size requirement as we have the XC60 anytime we need the space not really fussed about petrol or diesel as long as the MPG returns are reasonable. Electric not an option for now

Original Poster

10 posts

43 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020

WhiskyDisco said:

Maybe re-title the thread 'Most reliable 6 year old car for £8k'

Answer: Honda Jazz

Is 6 years old some unrwritten rule for reliable cars?

Original Poster

10 posts

43 months

Friday 23rd October 2020

ChrisH72 said:

I’d say buy something as new as possible which probably means going for a small city car.

Maybe a Kia picanto?

Get a decent spec one with the 1.2 engine so it’ll cope with faster roads. If you’re rural then something that small and narrow could be useful on the lanes and skinny tyres good in the winter weather. 7 year warranty too so not much to worry about.

Did have a look at the citigo, wasnt sure how a city car would hold up at the mileage im doing. Also not convinced it would be so great in poor weather like flooding

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43 months