Most reliable and cheap used automatic car?

harz99

Suzuki Swift, £5k should get you one around 2010-2012 according to miles, engine size, trim etc. The Suzuki brand has an excellent reliability rating.

oldagetraveller

ccbrowning wrote: »

Are CVT just a type of auto used by lots of Toyota cars or something? I'm admittedly not a gearhead and did a quick google!

In the past we drove some Nissan Micra into the ground, but those were very very old models and also when we were still entertaining manual transmissions.

They do use CVTs now. They fitted the horrible automated manual transmissions or a while.

Toyota's CVT, in my car, most certainly does not whine.
As I hinted, like Marmite. Some like, some don't like.

ccbrowning

Thanks for all the comments. In terms of autos that also have room for a dog and some luggage we've seen basically Auris, Prius, and then some Honda Insights in our area.

macman

High mileage means, typically more than 12K a year. Don't get hung up on mileage, what matters is the type of usage.

knightstyle

There is a decent Toyota Auris with 20k miles on it for £5550 on Autotrader. They are a decent reliable car and a bit bigger than the Aygo.

hareng

I would argue theres no such thing as a reliable car exspecially when its second hand. You could be buying other peoples trouble.


Secondly 12k per year is average mileage, but of those listed above with 3 cylinder and or low cc engines a 5 year old 60k would be pushing it whereas a bigger capacity will last a lot longer.

Car_54

hareng wrote: »

Secondly 12k per year is average mileage, but of those listed above with 3 cylinder and or low cc engines a 5 year old 60k would be pushing it whereas a bigger capacity will last a lot longer.

Any evidence to support that view?

hareng

Car_54 wrote: »

Any evidence to support that view?

Quite obvious a bigger engine less strain and so on lasts longer.
Smaller engines are lower powered and to get moving have to operate towards the top end of what they can achieve generating more stress and wear on components.
Ask yourself this if you could drive at max revs every where how long do you think the engine would last compared to say normal revs, extreme i know but expresses te point.

ccbrowning

Within the same general engine family, I guess it makes sense that a bigger engine would suffer less strain, etc. However, as a general statement it's not necessarily true due to engineering differences, etc. You routinely see Prius for example with hundreds of thousands of miles and those aren't large engines.

Anyway, I'm pretty much looking at petrol automatics and in my price range most of those seem to be 1.2 to 1.8l.

tacpot12

I would look at a Honda Accord Estate. Super reliable, bullet proof engines.