Around a grand to spend on a car - any ideas?

LandyAndy

Lirin wrote: »

The V6 I have cost me under a grand! 77,000 mileage, leather interior, criuse control and climate control.
Plenty of great cars for that price.

Hyundai Sonata?

Inactive

Lirin wrote: »

The V6 I have cost me under a grand! 77,000 mileage, leather interior, criuse control and climate control.
Plenty of great cars for that price.

Does it veer off to the left at filling stations?....:rotfl::D

Lirin

LandyAndy wrote: »

Hyundai Sonata?

Nope, Proton Perdana. Close though- engine's from a similar derivative- mine's a 6A12.

Inactive wrote: »

Does it veer off to the left at filling stations?....:rotfl::D

Nope, measures round 50 MPG, unless you plant it.

Sput2001

LandyAndy wrote: »

Not quite, perhaps.

You can give yourself a better chance by looking at Japanese and possibly German makes and ignoring French and Italian ones.

What you can't do is be too fussy about which make or model you end up with.

Got a 1999 Nissan Almera, 52,000 on the clock, MOT until June next year. Really pleased so far!

bengalknights

skoda or seat both reliable and cheap to run

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NickMidgley wrote: »

Got a 1999 Nissan Almera, 52,000 on the clock, MOT until June next year. Really pleased so far!

Good choice apart from their renowned corrosion problems at the rear of the cills.

Otherwise a good car, made before the dreaded Renault got involved with them.;)

Dave_Z

Lirin wrote: »

Nope, Proton Perdana. Close though- engine's from a similar derivative- mine's a 6A12.




Nope, measures round 50 MPG, unless you plant it.

Did they even sell them here? Saw plenty of them in Kuala Lumpur last year. You be careful and make sure you don't crash it. Even 2010 Proton cars will probably kill you if you have a 20mph accident, lol.

Lirin

Davez- I'm preinclined towards Proton obviously, I've never had a problem with any of them (barring minor things really.)
They are quite body-strong in the new range, particularly the new Neo, which is engineered by MEM. I know quite a few rallying with GTi's and coupes, and the coupe was developed with rallying in mind originally!
Proton have been in the UK since the 80's, and purchased Lotus in the 90's. Sadly, they don't get the advertising they should, and are very under-rated cars- the performance from mine is excellent given age of her.
The Perdana was never released over here- there are possibly only 20 in the UK. Humberside Police used them for a while.

Hannah_10

I bought a 2000 1.4L Citroen Xsara hatchback (Ford Focus size, not the big Picasso things) from eBay with a long MOT and in very shiny condition for £500 a few weeks ago. I can not fault it, it is the best car I have had and I've just done a 500 mile weekend round trip in it totally hassle-free.

What I did was set up a search in eBay for cars within 50 miles of my postcode (which is more like 100 miles as eBay measure in straight lines). I set it to find only smaller engine cars, of certain makes (basically I ticked every box that wasn't a premium manufacturer eg ticked Ford but not BMW), with 4 or 5 doors, of certain types only (no sports cars/ 4x4's etc) and so on. Then when the search results emails arrived I put any that I thought might close within my budget on my watch list. As a car I was very interested in came towards a close I'd try a cheekily low bid (because I was pretty broke) until I eventually got lucky on the Citroen.