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hollie.weimeraner wrote: »My son has an auto Quashqai and it's great although it is diesel. Nice quality car but your budget may be prohibitive.
We have a couple of Toyota Hybrids which are great especially the Auris estate.
I drove an Auris Hybrid estate in Italy. It was meant to have been an upgrade by Avis from a BMW 220D. Great for space, but the car gave a great impersonation of a dying fly. It was way too whiney. I have driven other Toyota petrol autos in New Zealand - the Corolla non hybrid which is the Auris and a small camper van. Never again. No guts to it at all.0 -
Yes and it's usually that someone has used it before and decided to change.
Of course it is
I assume that you haven't read many of the threads on here about the cars that people sold because they fancied a change then :rotfl:
There is always something wrong with a second hand car. You hope it is just the balloon was more than it was worth, they really have been given a company car, they are too ashamed to have a 14 plate car on the drive etc., but in my experience, it isn't.I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
(except air quality and Medical Science)
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Mercdriver wrote: »I drove an Auris Hybrid estate in Italy. It was meant to have been an upgrade by Avis from a BMW 220D. Great for space, but the car gave a great impersonation of a dying fly. It was way too whiney. I have driven other Toyota petrol autos in New Zealand - the Corolla non hybrid which is the Auris and a small camper van. Never again. No guts to it at all.
Can't see how the Auris was an upgrade to the BM definitely a downgrade. As far as the noise is concerned that's just the CVT transmission which I find OK0 -
op. mk2 Skoda fabia estate 1.6 petrol auto, my old man has one owned it 3 years without any issues with it, its the proper torque converter not the dsg which are prone to fail, it is a bit heavy on fuel i think he gets 30mpg around i was thinking to get it converted on lpg but as he only does 5,000 miles a year its not really worth it, tax is a bit high £240 a year
Hope that helps“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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What about a Nissan leaf. Ideal for low mileages like yours and very reliable. Also very practical.0
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I have always owned old second hand cars, never bought anything less than 10 years old.
I have the chance to buy an 06 Hyundai Matrix 1.6 petrol automatic and wonder where it sits in the very detailed upthread description of the various types of automatic systems.
Mileage is 67,000. Being retired with a wife who finds travelling difficult I do about 4,000 miles a year on just local trips. This would be my first automatic car.
At £800 could this be a good buy for me?0 -
Any issue with the auto box with a car valued at around £800 could make the car a write off. The 4 people I know of who owned older autos (one not so old actually) had serious auto box issues. A test drive may not reveal an auto issue that only happens after driving a longer while. Good old fashioned torque converters are thought to be the most reliable/easiest to have fixed.0
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Thanks buglawton.
I presume from what you say that the car has an auto box.0 -
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