new car for comute

ronnie84_2

Hi everyone not sure if this is correct place to start this thread but hopefully in few months we will be moving house which will then mean a huge comute for my hubby, he will be traveling 195 miles every fri, then 40 miles on sat and 40 miles on sun and then 195mile journey back home again i dont want it to cost the earth so any tips on what car would be good to do this lengthy comute? i was thinking something small like KA or smart car but didnt know if becuae it was so many miles something a little more powerful would work out cheaper?

V confused hope u can help, thanks Ronnie

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Hintza

Over 20,000 miles a year. I would hate driving such a small car for those distances. You want something that will be relatively relaxed at motorway cruising speed and at that mileage a diesel would probably be the better option.

angeltreats

Hintza wrote: »

Over 20,000 miles a year. I would hate driving such a small car for those distances. You want something that will be relatively relaxed at motorway cruising speed and at that mileage a diesel would probably be the better option.

I was going to say the same thing. I drive a small car and am temporarily doing about 400 miles a week, mostly on motorways and big dual carriageways and it's really not ideal. It's very noisy, for one thing, which makes me very tired and a bit stressed. If I was going to be doing this much driving for much longer I'd definitely be buying a bigger car purely for the comfort factor.

I'd look at something like a Mondeo or Vectra.