Best small car for long distance?

OddballJamie

Cowgirl13 wrote: »

I no longer have the Pug, so not sure what current prices would be, but that was probably just over a year ago.

Thanks for the advice on my driving ability, very helpful!

The 208 was launched a year ago last week. You couldn't have owned it long.

CKhalvashi

OddballJamie wrote: »

The 208 was launched a year ago last week. You couldn't have owned it long.

I was just going to say that it was released in 2006, but that was the 207 (we had a '52' plate 206, and I don't know why I thought that was a 207)

ETA: It was the 308, which has been on the market for some time I was thinking about

CK

vikingaero

There is a band of people on MSE who always think that only a 2 litre diesel Mondeo will do for motorway work.

We have 3 cars in our family BMW 520d/Mazda5/Corsa 1.4 and will happily take the 1.4 Corsa for a 700 mile return trip if it is the car that suits the passenger/load/journey type.

The biggest advantage of the Corsa is parking whether lengthways or width. When you have every in phat executive saloons, 4x4's and MPVs in car parks it's a breath of fresh air to be able to open the doors properly to exit.

Auto Express did a survey to find the UK's highest mileage private car driver. The winner was a recruitment consultant from Wales who drove about 100,000 miles a year. His car? A Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCi? Nope. It was a Suzuki Wagon R......

CFC

Little cars are great, I have two small cars. I love them.

But if you are doing high milage a large car is definitely safer as statistically your chances of being in an accident are greater.

Regardless of anything else, in a bigger, heavier car, you will come off better in a crash. If I was a high milage driver, I'd be looking at safety rather than mpg.

CKhalvashi

CFC wrote: »

Little cars are great, I have two small cars. I love them.

But if you are doing high milage a large car is definitely safer as statistically your chances of being in an accident are greater.

Regardless of anything else, in a bigger, heavier car, you will come off better in a crash. If I was a high milage driver, I'd be looking at safety rather than mpg.

How have I had 2 accidents in more than 1m miles of driving?

I'd say 80% of this was on international motorways, and both the accidents were in a city (once on black ice in Russia's 'Tunnel of Death', and the other was a non-fault)

Saying this, I still have a large car, mainly as it's comfortable, quiet and designed to sit on the motorway network.

CK

Tilt

http://www.fiat.co.uk/uk/fiat-punto?status=0

Ultrasonic

Tilt wrote: »

http://www.fiat.co.uk/uk/fiat-punto?status=0

Can't believe Fiat now have a spec called 'Easy' .

Tilt

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Can't believe Fiat now have a spec called 'Easy' .

You've no doubt heard me say this many times but I have personally owned 13 Fiats since 1978, my current one being the 13th (Punto MK2 HGT) which strangely enough is 13 years old (bought new March 2000).

From my experience I certainly can believe they have a spec called 'Easy' (although not sure I think it's the catchiest name in the book).

Ultrasonic

Tilt wrote: »

From my experience I certainly can believe they have a spec called 'Easy' (although not sure I think it's the catchiest name in the book).

Not sure if we were on the same wavelength there? Hopefully the cars won't say Easy on the back, but if they did there might be a slight reluctance among their presumably mostly female customer base to buying one .

OddballJamie

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Not sure if we were on the same wavelength there? Hopefully the cars won't say Easy on the back, but if they did there might be a slight reluctance among their presumably mostly female customer base to buying one .

Ford seemed to do quite well with slapping an Escort badge on the back of millions of cars

Although the Probe wasn't quite as successful.