Which old estate car would you recommend

Kilty_2

incensicle wrote: »

Oh I agree with the principle, it should save us a significant amount of cash, and you right the figures have to be worked out. For example we went round some local gargages today (where we were left alone!) and it seems that diesels are about a grand more expensive than the petrol equivalent. so now I need to compare tax, insurance category, mpg etc to see if its worth that saving buying a petrol, ( I think it probably isn't, but we'll see).

I haven't been to one of these massive car places before and I was amazed at how much of a hard sell went on. He was trying to pressure us into spending far much than we had told him we could afford (and I'd told him more than the true figure). Telling us this was the perfect car for us - it completeley wasn't. We found it quite funny the way the salesman was desperately trying to 'sell' to my husband who wasn't having any of it. He's still fuming at being told he wanted a 1300 estate. He was completey insulted.
I would say to be careful even just visiting a place like this, despite us having no intention of buying a car that day they did actually put a lot of pressure on us, including bringing another bloke in who was authorised to give us a better deal - oh yeah, - and it was quite hard to escape. I also felt they were evasive about our questions. I don't believe a 1300 estate could cruise happily full loaded, and a 5yr old car is not nearly new !!!!!!.

Carcraft are renowned for being scum.

And a 1.3 diesel Astra barely moves in unladen hatchback form so I wouldn't touch an estate (although there are a shitload of ex-fleet ones around). Look for a 1.7 or 1.9 diesel. If petrol you need a 1.8, ignore the 1.6.