Estate or big hatchback car diesel or Petrol under 2000 pounds

Norman_Castle

Ford fusion is a enlarged fiesta.

forgotmyname

My parents bought a fusion, They hated it so much with its endless niggles. They sold it and bought a Golf instead.

They still have the Golf, Had it about 8 years?

ShandyAndy_2

Meriva? Love ours

steve-L

the_r_sole wrote: »

I hope it has a better rear end than the accord! looked at one of them at the weekend...

Erm, yep but it does a neat party trick or two that's useful sometimes!
If you can ignore the rear end its a very practical estate.

Did you play at folding down the seats?
Try the electric tailgate (admittedly a liability but useful if you have kids/shopping/dogs)

My OH has a TDCI exec estate. MPG is reasonable.... loads of room and easy to use the extra room. 180,000 on the clock, needed 1st new DMF at 175,000 .... (second clutch 1st replaced at 111,000)

Really not inspiring in any shape or form but well built and reliable. (And if you want space it's very easy to use compared to many estates)..

Pure cost wise I'd also consider the Saab's..(9-3) worries (that turned out to be unfounded) about parts sent them flooding the market from fleets and this has really depressed the 2nd hand price.

steve-L

diz79 wrote: »

Wow thanks guys, I have a fiesta zetec at the moment 1.25 so according to forgotmyname I porb have the best car for what I need the only question is space. That why I was looking at estates and larger hatcbacks.

I do use my car for mainly driving in the city, so it seems my car is right, I want to get a newer car so was looking at the newer fiesta or possibly something a bit bigger.

Is it true then that diesels arent any good in the city and the only point in getting diesels is if you do more then 8000miles a year? Which would mean not getting a tdci?

Boot space is the most important so either an estate or large boot namely focus, volvo s40 or vw polo.


Thanks again everyone.

Diesels are pants in the city.... not just the engine but clutch wear etc.

Fabia Estates are also a possibility. (1.4 petrol version)

steve-L

forgotmyname wrote: »

Diesels take ages to warm up. Sometimes with just low speed driving it may not get upto temperature properly.

If its got a turbo as vitually all diesels do these days, You dont want to push it when cold.
Since i got the diesel i drive the long way around now to give the oil a chance to warm up before joining the main roads.

People tend to forget to drive car's the way they are designed to be driven.

I also take a longer route to the motorway but it makes no fuel cost difference overall to the trip.
One burns extra fuel and wears the engine on the motorway, the other warms up by the time it gets to the motorway and then uses less fuel.

I guess an extreme example is a trip I make across London sometimes from Surrey to Radlett.
Purely on MPG, In a 1.4 petrol on a Sunday early morning its probably way cheaper right through the centre of London. In the 3L diesel its way cheaper to take the M25.

The one on the M25 is probably way less wear on either car though!

andygb

steve-L wrote: »

Diesels are pants in the city.... not just the engine but clutch wear etc.

Fabia Estates are also a possibility. (1.4 petrol version)

Why do virtually all taxi drivers use diesel cars for short journeys then?

forgotmyname

andygb wrote: »

Why do virtually all taxi drivers use diesel cars for short journeys then?

Because they need the extra low down torque to pull away in 5th gear. Meaning no more gear changes :rotfl:

A 1 speed semi-auto.

diz79

Great help everyone, kno one mentioned if they had a preference between Fiesta and Polo?

Thanks

steve-L

andygb wrote: »

Why do virtually all taxi drivers use diesel cars for short journeys then?

1) They leave the engine running between journeys.
2) Regardless of all else a 1.2 Polo/Fiesta/<insert yourself> is built to fall apart so they choose cars that are built to last longer. They require a certain number of doors/space .... all resulting in something the size of the Passat/Mondeo/<insert here>Then they have the choice in a 'sensible size engine' of a 1.6+ Petrol

(It will be interesting to see how the 1.2/1.4 Turbo petrols cope in 10 yrs/200,000 miles.....I suspect many of the 1.9TD's currently on 200,000 miles will still be running long after the brand new 1.2 Turbo's are in the big scrapyard in the sky)