Help deciding which car?

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Kia Ceed 1.4 Strike Special Edition =

1.4 cee'd Strike Special Edition; £10,995.00, so £8995 on Scrappage.

That is list price from Kia Website.

goldspanners

Hoof_Hearted wrote: »

Daugher bought an i10 Comfort with scrappage. Utterly fantastic small car with 5 year warranty. It seems very solid and there is an amazing amount of space for such a small footprint and it's quite zippy. It seems more refined than the Picanto. It is also in heavy demand (long waiting list) so I suspect it will hold its value better. However, it is a small car and personally I would opt for something bigger as a family car.

they are in high demand as new vehicles due to the scrappage scheme and the long warranty. as a second hand vehicle they look even less attractive as a purchase than they do to the eye.

Inactive

goldspanners wrote: »

. as a second hand vehicle they look even less attractive as a purchase than they do to the eye.

That is all very subjective GS.;)

goldspanners

Inactive wrote: »

That is all very subjective GS.;)

sorry should have said my eyes.

Ranger8

Basically it seems your only interested in a vehicle with 5/7 yrs warranty correct ?
How about a 3yr warranty car topped up with a manufacturer approved extended warranty ?
Such a warranty costs me around £1k a year for my Jaguar and can continue until the car is 10yrs or 100k miles.

buglawton

...as a second hand buy (or when you want to sell your long warranty car) - the warranties are transferable. So can sell an i30 at 4 yrs and offer the buyer real peace of mind with the remaining 1 yr warranty.

stphnstevey

I had looked at the i10, but I can get a slightly better spec Kia Picanto for the same price.

Also the Kia Ceed is more expensive than the Rio and I am happy with the Rio size and looks.

The looks are fairly important, so I think I will go for the Rio over the Picanto. It's a no brainer to go for the diesel as it pays for itself twice over in 6yrs. It's also a much better and more powerful engine than the petrol.

Still up for debate, but at the moment the Rio diesel looks the winner.

I would like to use the scrappage scheme - do any of these discount websites do scrappage?

buglawton

Some say Diesel engines are less complicated - less electrics - but if a turbo is involved, plus dual mass flywheel clutch (seems to be on all small diesels now) plus particulate filter, the situation 5 years down the line may not be so simple.

Also see this MSE thread (which echoes lots of others, also Australian forums, about diesels from the Hyundai/Kia stable having much less real life economy than the adverts say (this thread happens to be about the 1.5 diesel Rio):
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=937431

Hence I opted for a 1.4 petrol, a steady 42 mpg even on a 8 mile run to work where 5th gear is not used much. (oh and diesel can be pricier then petrol in winter)

harveybobbles

buglawton wrote: »

Some say Diesel engines are less complicated

I'd like to meet that person and batter them. With swirl flaps, egr valves, manifolds and everything else that goes wrong with diesels...!

buglawton

Diesels makes sense for commercial vehicles, plenty of space for the engine parts and not trying to ape petrol performance for acceleration, engine smoothness and transmission quietness.

Diesel in small cars is a marketing gadget.