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Best car for £3k?

straas
straas Posts: 88 Forumite
in Motoring
An often asked question, what's the best suited car for me under £3k?


Commute of 25-30 miles per day, often do business mileage and quite a bit outside work, so approx. 15 k miles annually.


No kids/pets etc so no massive constraints.


Would prefer economy over speed.
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  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,946 Forumite
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    Ford Mondeo.
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  • Foxy-Stoat_3
    Foxy-Stoat_3 Posts: 2,980 Forumite
    Audi A4/A6

    Guess what we drive ;)
    "Dream World" by The B Sharps....describes a lot of the posts in the Loans and Mortgage sections !!!
  • lazer
    lazer Posts: 3,402 Forumite
    VW Polo, Seat Ibiza or Skoda fabia, diesel - a polo gives around 60mpg and the tax is only £30 on the 1.4TDI
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  • ratrace
    ratrace Posts: 1,021 Forumite
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    lazer wrote: »
    VW Polo, Seat Ibiza or Skoda fabia, diesel - a polo gives around 60mpg and the tax is only £30 on the 1.4TDI

    Snap! same as above
    “People are caught up in an egotistic artificial rat race to display a false image to society. We want the biggest house, fanciest car, and we don't mind paying the sky high mortgage to put up that show. We sacrifice our biggest assets our health and time, We feel happy when we see people look up to us and see how successful we are”

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  • DUTR
    DUTR Posts: 12,958 Forumite
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    Foxy-Stoat wrote: »
    Audi A4/A6

    Guess what we drive ;)

    Mondeo? :eek: that's my guess.
  • Cash-Cows
    Cash-Cows Posts: 413 Forumite
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    Smallest car with smallest engine. You're doing lots of miles, so keep costs down. This is MSE after all.
  • lexington013
    lexington013 Posts: 335 Forumite
    Volvo s60 petrol. Cheap to run, comfortable, 2ltr petrol. Manual gearbox.
  • martinthebandit
    martinthebandit Posts: 4,422 Forumite
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    Best car for £3k is one costing 1 to 1.5k and put the rest of the money into the bank for any repairs that may arise.

    Oh and with the price of fuel as it is and only doing 15k miles per annum 'fuel economy' is maybe not the most important criteria.
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    Audi A3 TDi SLine with SE bumpers.
    Toyota Yaris (front brake only model)
    BMW 330i
    BMW M3..
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,946 Forumite
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    Cash-Cows wrote: »
    Smallest car with smallest engine. You're doing lots of miles, so keep costs down. This is MSE after all.


    But smaller cars can cost more to buy than a larger car. On a decent run a larger engine can give better mpg than a smaller one.
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