Looking at options for the mrs, i want 5 doors reliability and economy 30+ and a decent turn of speed when required.

Thats not a subaru as they are way too thirsty.

 

Nissan Primera GT

 

Leon Cupra must have dropped to that level now. I enjoyed owning mine.

 

+1 for the Cupra. There's a couple on eBay at not too much over 2k.

 

reliant robin you cant

 

plonker

 

ummm thanks guys i'll take a look.

Anymore.

 

Mk4 golf tdi?

 

I just thought of a Vauxhall Carlton 3.0 24v GSi, only when I went to find some none are for sale!!

 

Octavia Vrs, like a Leon without the electrical faults.

 

Come on guys i'm still looking.

Anymore suggestions?????

 

Volvo 850r
fast
5 door
huge boot
ideal

 

Clio 172 cup

 

I'm on a similar hunt for a commuter car. As I have to do a 60 mile round trip I want something comfy with a bit of poke if needed but not too thirsty as it needs to sit in traffic/not bankrupt me.

I've been looking at 2.0 engines and below so 206 GTi seems to come in at this price.

You can also get Hyundai Coupes for under 2k as well as a wildcard.

VW golf GTi isn't bad.

Also happy to take thoughts on this though!

5t.

 

Seat Leon Cupra ;-)

PM me for info on these...

 

Good car, never in a million years will it achieve 30mpg average
Missing two doors though
Suffer electrical problems, albiet niggly ones. Good cars though but as mentioned before Octavia Vrs is pretty much the same car but Skoda consistantly score highly in reliability tables, don't know why they are more reliable than VW/Audi/Seat as they all use much the same parts bin.

 

dont mess around. buy a Type RA....
bollocks to the petrol costs


otherwise, something kia

 

I picked up an x reg 525 se BMW last night and its a blast, I had completely forgotten how good these cars were, manual gearbox is a must and then you have a great all rounder . Mine with BMW history leather and the M-sport toys was less than 2k.

 

Fuel consumption?

 

Octavia VRS is probably the most sensible choice.

 

driving 'spirited' around milton keynes about 23 mpg pretty sure over 30 is possible if you want it to be. I think the 'official' combined figure is 30.1 mpg with extra urban listed as 39mpg

 

Somthing like this.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...11jl?logcode=p


192bhp

Don't actually buy one without leather though. they are hard to sell on again hence the low price of this.

 

vw bora
vectra sri
octavia
accord type r
civic vti-s
vr6 vento
E30

 

An ST200 Mondeo will do 30mpg average as long as you're not a tool with the right foot... comes with loads of space, lots of kit (climate, Recaros, full electrics, etc), sound great, Ford parts prices, 5 doors and isn't too shabby if you sink the right foot with the ~200bhp V6 engine.

I've got one for a runaround and it's a cracker, 62k miles, history, etc.


Cheers,
Grant

 

Anyone got an idea of what's likely to go pop on this... http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-m...f-172/96512137

5t.

 

Civic VTI - either the 1.6 or 1.8 will do the jiob and bulletproof as long as you change the oil on a regular basis

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi.../100?logcode=p
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi.../100?logcode=p

 

+1. Excellent idea. I'd totally forgotten about them. They really hold their value, don't they? I had civics like that years ago and they've hardly changed in price since then. Seeing those adverts has actually made me seriously consider getting one as a stop gap, as I could really be doing with getting rid of my current car (ST170) before it turns into a pile of rust. It's an 04 and has only done 50k, but I've had to get countless bits of it sprayed already to keep the rust away. It's becoming a pain in the ****, so time to get something newer and better,. Only problem is I don't know what...

 

Great cars, superb handling and performance. I had a 1.6 and 1.8

 

Yip. Right, that's it, I've just started looking for one.

 

vRS

Deals with all those requirements

Mahoosive boot