Need new car for commute. Whats The Best Way To Go?

rev_henry

I do agree with this 90mph thing. Little cars like this are not designed to cruise at 90 and do not appreciate it. Nothing to do with it being illegal or dangerous, if it makes you feel better - I wouldn't mention it if it were a big merc or something...

bigjl

I would suggest fixing the Rover aswell.

A mate bought a Rover 214 5 yrs ago one owner with a blown HG.

He has had zero HG problems since.

In fact the car has been trouble free apart from recently when the passenger side window regulator gave up the ghost, but the same thing happens to the Hondas with the same design to no biggie.

The OP mentions he spends longish periods on the motorway doing 90mph, then says he doesn't want to be lectured.

The simple fact is when you are talking about little cars like Saxos or similar they are very nearly flat out at that kind of speed, hence why you keep breaking them.

If you want to sit at those kind of speeds regularly then you need a car deisgned to do it.

In other words a slightly larger car.

This will.incur slightly higher insurance and a bit more squirt.

But you can then chose from old shape Primeras, old Avensis or Cavaliers. Mega cheap, simple to look after and may not work out much more expensive to run than a supermini getting driven flat out all the time.
A mate has just put his L reg Cavalier back on the road an after a quick service, clutch and a couple of repairs for a fresh MOT he is away. He gets over 40mpg and doesn't drive slowly, but Vauxhalls of this vintage had very long gearing sso even at 90mph they won't be getting their nuts revved off.

There is also a certain retro chic with these older cars now. Comfy aswell.

One thing to avoid is the 1.6 Primera as they are lacking in power a bit.

bigjl

Oops i didn't refresh before finishing my post. Some of my points where the same as above.

davidjwest

A diesel would last you longest if you insist on cruising at 90 MPH, my Mondeo has six gears and is only pulling just over 2k revs at that kind of speed, not that I do that very often.

Most petrol engined cars won't like cruising at that kind of speed for very long, or at least they'll be noisy and revving higher.

Having said that my old Nova 1.2 (petrol) did 225k and I was a boy racer back then doing those kinds of speeds rather foolishly quite often.