Most reliable used MPV, SUV or maybe estate for £10k?

wba31

ollysavingmoney wrote: »

wba31, is the seating position in your S-Max much higher up than normal cars, as I do like to have an elevated view if poss, so was thinking of a Galaxy, but maybe they're the same seating height anyway?

maybe a foot or so. It's very different to the civic (2008 model) where I sat down low in the car, the s-max is a little more upright. It felt less so than the Galaxy but i think that's in my head as it just has a lower roofline.

If Mrs WBA wasn't adamant on having 2 more kids I would have gone for an estate car - a Superb or an Accord, simply for a slightly better drive and better MPG, but that being said I do like the practicality of the S-Max, being able to pick up my 6 mates when we went to play football the week - putting the shortest 2 in the very back.

I personally wouldnt be put off by 80k miles on a Honda diesel, I bought an Accord with 107k and sold after a year with 120k, then a 2004 Civc I bought with 100k miles and sold to my dad with 140k after 3 years, it's now on 175k. my last civic was bought with 107k and traded with 139k after 3 1/2 years in August. in that 7 years only had to have clutch and flywheel done on latest civic. Most Honda diesels have been fleet cars just sat in 6th gear at 75mph on motorways...

walwyn1978

Kia Sportage or Hyundai equivalent? Obvs a crossover rather than an SUV but loads of room and although you say kit isn't important they've pretty well specced, especially if you avoid the base model

gilbert_and_sullivan

Subaru Legacy/Outback a bit bigger than Forester, avoid the Diesel at all costs, otherwise bomb proof so long as you look after it.

knightstyle

If it has to be an automatic look at a 2.0 diesel Cmax.
Once you have driven one I doubt you will find a better auto, we couldn't.

Richard53

agrinnall wrote: »

Probably a Mondeo estate, £10K should get you a decent one.

Agreed. Nice to drive, economical, reliable, seats 5 in comfort, and load space is utterly huge.


I sold a 56 plate 2.0 diesel with FSH recently for under £2k, so £10k should get you one with diamond-studded wheel trims and a live-in butler and maid.

Guest101

I bought a Hyundai i30 (2009) - for less than half the price you're after (I was lucky it was low mileage - under 20k)


But it's a very reliable car and make in general and has a surprising amount of room in the back and a good size boot.


(oh and it has a spare wheel, rather than an inflation kit!)

agrinnall

Richard53 wrote: »

...£10k should get you one with diamond-studded wheel trims and a live-in butler and maid.

But won't that reduce the seating capacity to 3, unless the butler and maid live downstairs?

Richard53

agrinnall wrote: »

But won't that reduce the seating capacity to 3, unless the butler and maid live downstairs?

It's a little-known fact that Mondeos have an upstairs and a downstairs. Staff live downstairs, where there is a full cellar and a butler's pantry. Upstairs, five comfy seats, a home cinema, ballroom and a helipad on the roof of the East Wing.


(I'm lying except for the ballroom. There was plenty of that.)