Economical small city cars

onwards&upwards

What would be your recommendations?

I’ve been happy with the bigger Skodas and volkswagens in the past, so looking at the Skoda citigo. A friend raves about her Kia picanto.

If you only needed a small city runaround and had a budget of around 5k what would you go for?

peter_the_piper

Second the Picanto

macman

Hyundai i10? Or the Citigo.

jimbo6977

Suzuki Celerio. Or if buying new Vauxhall Corsa is ludicrously cheap at the mo.

daveyjp

Toyota Yaris or Suzuki Swift. No expense of cambelt changes every few years.

forgotmyname

Define economonical.

I had a large family estate with a 2.2L Diesel engine that did 67mpg on one trip and averaged 58mpg over a full tank, is that economical enough?

But short winter journeys the same car averaged 29mpg. No faults and nothing wrong just the journey types. Sitting idling waiting for the screen to clear = 0 mpg.

So a small hatch may get a 60mpg for one person and barely break 30 for another.

Jimmithecat

Citigo for me - great car for the price

worried_jim

Are there any small cars that are uneconomical?

jimbo6977

The MG3 - thirsty!

fatbelly

5k should get a city car of 2013-15 age. At that time I would say the Up/Citigo/Mii was the best around - and I've had two of those.

If you can find a Seat Mii SE or Toca or VW High Up or Skoda Citigo Elegance you're getting a good level of kit. The 5-door is more practical than the 3-door.

The 2016 Look Up special edition is drifting down in price but I doubt you'd get one for 5k

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forgotmyname wrote: »

Define economonical.

I had a large family estate with a 2.2L Diesel engine that did 67mpg on one trip and averaged 58mpg over a full tank, is that economical enough?

But short winter journeys the same car averaged 29mpg. No faults and nothing wrong just the journey types. Sitting idling waiting for the screen to clear = 0 mpg.

So a small hatch may get a 60mpg for one person and barely break 30 for another.

It will be doing a 5 mile commute 5 days a week all year round in an urban area but going in the opposite direction to the bulk of the traffic so shouldn’t be too stop/start or much idling. It will also do weekend visits to friends/family/shops/activities which will generally be within a 30 mile radius. It may occasionally be called upon to do a longer motorway journey but one of the reasons for the swap is that i’m changing jobs because i’m sick of that so not too often!