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New Small Family Car Suggestions?
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Not sure, doubt it. Would you consider automatic. Got our first about 18 months ago and I don't know why we didn't get one sooner.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time0 -
Hyundai i20, £17,569.25 brand new.
https://www.360vehicleleasing.co.uk/search-cars?noindex=1&ft=op0&make=84&group=977
£17,810 new in stock I think.
Swift £15,999 new.https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202512038332375?sort=price-asc&searchId=9b76ef4b-6d99-4808-ab18-10f69b169392&make=Suzuki&model=Swift&page=1&postcode=S402qq&transmission=Manual&year-from=new&advertising-location=at_cars&fromsra=&backLinkQueryParams=channel%3Dcars%26make%3DSuzuki%26model%3DSwift%26postcode%3DS402qq%26sort%3Dprice-asc%26transmission%3DManual%26year-from%3Dnew%26flrfc%3D1&calc-deposit=1600&calc-term=48&calc-mileage=10000
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No, electric cars only have 1 gear* so there's no need for a manual gearbox.
*I think some very high end EVs have 2 gears to allow for faster launch and top speed, but they'll be well out of scope of this thread.0 -
I was going to suggest a number of 2 year old, large, automatic diesels costing about 40k. Then I re-read the original post.
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Suzuki Swift gets my vote too.
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Draw up your shortlist on paper.
Go round the dealerships and test-drive the shortlist.0 -
For that budget, it really is worth looking to understand the actual price considering deals / incentives for brand new. That may work out lower cost to purchase than nearly new / less than1 year options. If you do the homework and nearly new is offering genuine savings, at least you will know that to be the case. Try the online car brokers to get an indication of the real prices.
Both the cars you suggest are good options. You might also find that the brokers offer up an alternative that you had not considered if there are stock units needing to be sold. It is worth being open to "buying the deal, not buying the car".
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The Toyota hybrid batteries can be quite short-lived, I follow a guy on youtube who repairs them.
The issue is recharging cycles, batteries live and die by that.
Tesla reckon around 1500 cycles before issues, which on a car that does 250 miles is 375000 miles!
But on a car that does 30 miles, it's only 45000 miles….
Also bear in mind these hybrid cars come with tragic CVT gearboxes when running on petrol, absolutely awful things…..
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Not sure what pointyou are trying to make. The Yaris hybrid isn't a plug in hybrid, so no 'cycles', it charges and discharges all the time the car is running.
The most you will get on pure EV running is a couple of miles, but speed is limited to below 25mph. For what it is designed to do the Toyota Yaris CVT is an excellent and very reliable piece of engineering.0 -
How it's charged doesn't matter, it's still a very frequent cycle of discharge / charge.
Much more frequent than a full BEV.
Combined with the horrible drive of CVT gearboxes, I don't know why anyone would choose one.
I've drivem the Toyota, Honda Jazz and MG3 hybrids lately - the MG being the best, surprisingly.
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