Suggestions for fun daily driver

Arklight

Have you considered the Almera?

This tasty number is only 5% of your budget. You can spend the rest on other things. Like a chest freezer or a foreign holiday.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201811022066171

Good luck.

Arklight

In case you'd like to get excited about your new Almera, here's a video of a fellow owner here:

https://youtu.be/dW1PJDoe43E

Arklight

Here is a glamorous lady testing an Almera you can't buy here and that is not available.

https://youtu.be/1zE8DwtjHF0

Arklight

This is my favourite video because even though it's in Russian it shows the Almera driving on a road. Which it is ok at.

https://youtu.be/XtoElVdNT2E

Apodemus

All the above seems pretty boring to me! If I had £7k budget and only drove such a small mileage, I’d be looking for a fun classic car of whatever type floats your boat. Anything from an old MG, Triumph or Porsche to a Series Land Rover could be found in that price bracket.

motorguy

Apodemus wrote: »

All the above seems pretty boring to me! If I had £7k budget and only drove such a small mileage, I’d be looking for a fun classic car of whatever type floats your boat. Anything from an old MG, Triumph or Porsche to a Series Land Rover could be found in that price bracket.

Classics can be expensive to run and when something does go wrong, you can wait a disproportionate amount of time to get the parts.

Porsches - for example, a Boxster are fun but again at that age can become problematic and throw up expensive bills.

An MX5 will offer the vast bulk of the experience but with a lot less risk and cost.

onomatopoeia99

motorguy wrote: »

Porsches - for example, a Boxster are fun but again at that age can become problematic and throw up expensive bills.

With 14 years experience of running one, I'm going to disagree.


I did just have all three radiators replaced (it's an S so has the extra centre radiator, which is the one that had failed) and both air conditioning condensers at the same time, but it's 18 years old now so I don't find that totally unreasonable. Cost me £1100, so it's going to be an expensive year this year - normal servicing and maintenance bills average about £1000/year.



I don't like front engined cars with all that weight over the steering wheels, which is why I wouldn't have an MX-5. My other car is a Hillman Imp.

k6chris

I think I have fallen in love with the Nissan Almera......

loskie

MX5 but don't avoid buying privately, there will be a lot of good quality cars available. Dealer cars aren't really all that and most dealers are pretty shady.

Apodemus

motorguy wrote: »

Classics can be expensive to run and when something does go wrong, you can wait a disproportionate amount of time to get the parts...

Perhaps, but if it all turns pear-shaped the OP could almost walk to work and at that rate of use, the running costs might be less of an issue.