65000 miles a year

kripel

Dont listen to those idiots who say to get some French crap or Vauxhalls.
Toyota avensis /skoda superb fits your bill, both can be had for like 5k the 2009+ model, will do your MPG and will easily last you 5years+ even with your 65k/year milage and wont cost you anything much to repair, IF they ever need something.
also civic for that milage is going to be harsh,they are good cars but not for that sort of milage where you want maximum comfort.
Also I wouldnt touch anything VW if that car isnt a company car serviced and paid for your by employer- because the quality sucks !!! lately and they eat parts like crazy.

Mercdriver

kripel wrote: »

Dont listen to those idiots who say to get some French crap or Vauxhalls.
Toyota avensis /skoda superb fits your bill, both can be had for like 5k the 2009+ model, will do your MPG and will easily last you 5years+ even with your 65k/year milage and wont cost you anything much to repair, IF they ever need something.
also civic for that milage is going to be harsh,they are good cars but not for that sort of milage where you want maximum comfort.
Also I wouldnt touch anything VW if that car isnt a company car serviced and paid for your by employer- because the quality sucks !!! lately and they eat parts like crazy.

Wonder why the Skoda gets rave reviews while VW sucks. The Superb is just a Passat after all...

custardy

vinefc wrote: »

might sound stupid question but what is a repmobile? i bought a £4000 307sw 3 years ago with 92k on clock and it cost me a fortune in repairs in 2 years i ended up selling for £1000 but paid out lots.

and I bought a 307SW that went on for years without anything other than consumables.
Nobody can guarantee a car will last/not cost money outwith buying new and having warranty (though not always issue free either!)

colino

42 real mpg from a petrol Vectra and all the additional money saving is in reduced capital expenditure up front and true running costs. Example is the price of one decent tyre on the 530D you get a decent set of tyres on the Vectra. Due to a number of factors, they will last twice as long on the Vectra too.
At high business miles, the car is just a business tool to be used up and disposed of as economically as possible.

mcpitman

kripel wrote: »

Dont listen to those idiots who say to get some French crap or Vauxhalls.
Toyota avensis /skoda superb fits your bill, both can be had for like 5k the 2009+ model, will do your MPG and will easily last you 5years+ even with your 65k/year milage and wont cost you anything much to repair, IF they ever need something.
also civic for that milage is going to be harsh,they are good cars but not for that sort of milage where you want maximum comfort.
Also I wouldnt touch anything VW if that car isnt a company car serviced and paid for your by employer- because the quality sucks !!! lately and they eat parts like crazy.

Skoda = VW, so if Skoda's are great at reliability, the same engine in the VW variant will be just the same.

Not all Civic suspension is "harsh".

I have run a Vec-C extremely reliably for 100k miles in the past.

I now run an Vauxbore Insignificant, but all joking aside, it's been a great car, regularly serviced gives good mpg and never misses a beat. Taken this car from 26k miles in Dec-13 to 80k now. Just consumables and servicing cost on top of the usual.

AdrianC

kripel wrote: »

Toyota avensis /skoda superb fits your bill, both can be had for like 5k the 2009+ model, will do your MPG and will easily last you 5years+ even with your 65k/year milage

2009 car is six years old already.
In five years, the OP will be putting 325,000 onto whatever they buy. I don't care what car it is, an 11yo, ~400k car is not going to be low-maintenance...

barnaclebill

Got in a taxi last week, looked and sounded good, the driver said he bought it with 92,000 on the clock and it was now 164,000 miles.
It was a Skoda octavia automatic diesel but don't know what mpg he was getting.

Rambosmum

Another vote for a VW 1.9 TDI or similar. 155k on the clock and still going very strong.

kripel

AdrianC wrote: »

2009 car is six years old already.
In five years, the OP will be putting 325,000 onto whatever they buy. I don't care what car it is, an 11yo, ~400k car is not going to be low-maintenance...

6years Isn't old for car at all, here if you told someone 2009year car is old you would be laughed at.
Honestly its more or less brand new at that age if looked after and decent brand. It just really depends on the car, even the 400k miles for most non-french crap is nothing if properly maintained , but i wonder who even keeps cars in uk for that long since you guys change them like socks.

AdrianC

kripel wrote: »

6years Isn't old for car at all, here if you told someone 2009year car is old you would be laughed at.

I don't know where "here" is, but I think there might be something lost in translation.

"Six years old" does not mean it's "old". We would say "two months old", too.
But expecting a 6yo (and what mileage already?) car to be low-maintenance for another 5yrs/325k miles (over 100k km/year)? No. That's not realistic.