i10 vs Aygo/107/C1

greyster

Hi all

If all cars (in my subject line) were the same price, would you opt for an i10 or an Aygo/107/C1? The later three being made in the same factory.

i10 has 5 year warranty with aircon/electric windows as standard. While the Aygo/107/C1 cars don't have these extras and come with 3 years.

What do you think? Worth going with the lesser known hyundai for the extras or not?

My preference is the Aygo but its not for me its for my 60 year old mother.

She currently drives an H reg polo, does lots of tiny drives around town in it and a fortnightly 40 mile drive on A roads. Never any motorways.

hewhoisnotintheknow

there will be a massive amount of difference between those cars and a 19 year old vw

i would just base it on the test drive she does

greyster

thanks. She had a few cars when she was younger, mainly all VW but I think I've convinced her to at least test drive all the above.

hewhoisnotintheknow

they will see like dream machines, light, responive easy to drive

harveybobbles

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

they will see like dream machines, light, responive easy to drive

But might not last the 19 years the VW did...!

oh_no_5

The Aygo will probably be better on fuel.I have been on the Hyundai forums lately researching th i10 and they say the claimed mpg is a bit bogus.People are getting mid 40s rather than the high 50s.

Also road tax from next year will be £20 for the Aygo and £30 for the i10 (119 co2) not a massive difference I know but both still much better than £120 (I think) for the old VW.

diddlydum

I have an Aygo Blue and it came with electric windows and air con as standard. Not bad for £8000. I havea severe case of lead feet and I easily get over 50mpg out of it, in a combination of city and motorway driving; on the motorway alone it's more like 60mpg.

I'd go for the Toyota mostly for re-sale value, though.

daveyjp

We have an Aygo - no i10 when we bought it, but the C1 and 107 were ruled out.

Toyota dealers provide excellent service, the servicing is cheaper than Citroen and Peugeot and the Toyota badge is a bonus when coming to sell.

Our Aygo has electric windows as standard and aircon as an extra.

soolin

I have a C1 now, less than a week old I paid £6395 on the road and I love it. I have already done a few hundred miles to test it out and am getting approx 69 MPG. It is possibly the easiest car I have ever driven.

The downside of the car for me is that I feel I sit quite low to drive it, but my OH loves that as it means a lot of headroom for him and he is 6ft 2. My other car is only a C3 and I sit much higher in that.

Like others have said though, test drive them all.

MotorIndustryExpert

The C1 is the cheapest out of the C1/107/Aygo family, but it is also the cheapest to buy. Out of the three, it's depreciation factor is the least too (source: CAP).

At the start of the year, Citroen built a batch of special edition C1s called the Splash. They came in White and Metallic Blue. Standard kit includes Electric Windows, Remote Locking, A/C, and ABS with Stability Control. Contract Hire pricing is cheaper on these than lesser models, so all sources expect these to hold their money well.

There are still some Blue Cars about in the network if you are fast. List price after current offers is only £6795, and don't expect much off that as C1s are in very high demand compared to stock levels at the moment so dealers have no need to let vehicles go for a bargain price.

Just to confirm, all three vehicles have identical underpinnings and interiors. Bodyshells are the only thing that differs.

greyster

just an update to say she test drove the above and even a Scoda Fabia. She currently has her eyes on the Aygo Blue edition. I think she'd prefer black paint* but the blue edition has more features for the money. She'll be doing another test drive next week, touch wood.

* not to be confused with black edition, which is more expensive than Blue edition and doesn't have A/C standard.