Second hand car question

crispy_chris

Hi there,

Thanks for all of your comments and thoughts, I should clarify that I'm not really interested in a saloon car, a hatchback or a coupe is what I'm going for.
In regards to Kia, sorry but there is really zero street cred in a Kia and I do want something I am happy to say is mine. Not that I have anything against people that drive Kia's, but they're not for me.

The car's I'm now considering:

Honda Civic,
Mazda 3,
Citroen C4,
Ford Focus,
Vauxhall Corsa,
Seat Ibiza,
Renault Clio.

As I say, thank you for your comments

jase1

> there is really zero street cred in a Kia

... but there is street cred in a Citroen?

crispy_chris

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in my eyes yes

Inactive

crispy_chris wrote: »

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in my eyes yes

But your number one on your list was " Reliability ".

A Kia will almost certainly be more reliable than any Citroen.

Gandalfthesecond

Inactive wrote: »

But your number one on your list was " Reliability ".

A Kia will almost certainly be more reliable than any Citroen.

And many others on his short list.

crispy_chris

Fair point, maybe I'm too quick to poo-poo them

shellonabeach

I'm not much help but just wanted to say I was in exactly the same position as you, I had had my 1999 Peugeot 206 and after 8 years of owning her pretty smoothly the last 12 months she was off the road more than on and cost me a fortune in repairs.

I sold her last month, with faults declared to a garage for £325 (1.1L had 130K on the clock)

I bought an '06 VW Golf 1.6 50K on the clock for £4500 (private and a lot of haggling by my OH). The difference in drive is amazing - wish I had got shot of the Peugeot much sooner!!

My work colleague has a Seat Leon which is very much like the Golf (he said they were made by the same company) and are very similar inside.

Strider590

Or go bigger... Something like a Ford Mondeo or VX Vectra, plenty of 2007/2008 models for £3500. Spend the remaining £500 on the fractionally higher fuel consumption and enjoy all the toys that come as standard on these bigger cars.