Automatic Older Cars

BlueDog12

I'm planning to buy a smallish automatic car in the next month. There are some are want to avoid because the automatic box have a poor reputation.

Can anyone recommend a car / model with a good automatic box. Looking for something from maybe 07 upwards.

It's just for one person and one dog!

Arklight

Nissan Micra.

Gloomendoom

Avoid small auto Vauxhalls.

stator

They stopped making my car in 2005, but it's a VW and have had no problems with the automatic gearbox at all, although it's done only 70k miles. The problems I thought were the gearbox were actually due to malfunctioning engine sensors

Angus_Og

Just try and find one with a proper torque converter gearbox.

System

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Avoid small auto Vauxhalls.

II'd add those little Citroens, Peugeots and Toyotas to that, the ones that are all basically the same car with a different badge on that use an electronically controlled manual box as an auto.

parking_question_chap

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Avoid small auto Vauxhalls.

Just avoid Vauxhalls in general.

iolanthe07

Angus_Og wrote: »

Just try and find one with a proper torque converter gearbox.

I second that. Traditional torque converter autoboxes are unlikely to give trouble, and if they do they are easy to fix. Avoid automated manual (electro-magnetic clutch) boxes as fitted to some small European models. The Hyundai i10 and KIA Picanto are small cars with a good reputation for reliability and the automatics are fitted with torque converter 'boxes.