Need a new car. What shall we buy?

matmcgregor

horsechestnut wrote: »

I am on my third Volkswagen Polo. All bought from new. They are very solid. Good on fuel etc. Very reliable.

If you can go up a bit in price, then the Golf. My daughter had one and put 180,000 miles on it!

The Dealers are always doing offers and of course you can haggle on the price if there isn't an offer.

V expensive and not as reliable as the japs,

the polo is a heavy car also so the mpg is average

tstodart

I bought a 18 month old Jazz a couple of years ago and it is a great runaround.

Cheap to maintain - just don't go to the dealer for servicing.

Cheap-ish road tax- band C (£115/ year)
Good mpg - I get about 50mpg
Petrol - Yes
Can seat four (and squeeze in a fifth occasionally for short journeys) - Yes
Has a boot that isn't absolutely tiny - Yes.
Not sluggish pulling away at junctions - good enough.
Possible to add roof bars too - not sure about this one but don't see why not.

I think recently been awarded Britain's most reliable car.

sukysue

We bought a brand new Ford Focus 1600 diesel in June last year for 10, 500 from Motorpoint in newport was very easy and have had no trouble whatsoever (crossing fingers )also we are a family of four and the dds bring their friends with them when we go out and the car fits five easily, the boot is bigger than the ghia we had previously too, cos that was one thing I really wanted when looking for a new car.She does about 52 to the gallon (see so old I cant convert to litres !!!HEHE)just moseying aroung in general not on long runs.

Kez100

Diesel is going up in price and we don't do the long journeys - lots of short ones - so I believe petrol is the better option.

Our last three cars have been japanese - mazda, toyota, toyota and our other car a mazda so, reading everything here, I think we may well shorten our list to :

Toyota Yaris, Mazda 2 or 3, Honda Civic (old), Honda Jazz.

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Kez100 wrote: »

Toyota Yaris, Mazda 2 or 3, Honda Civic (old), Honda Jazz.

A wise list, if your budget is restricted you may consider adding a Hyundai Getz to the list, 5 year warranty, 3 years RAC cover, very reliable.

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Oh and a Daihatsu Sirion, made in Japan, good spec, and part of the Toyota Group.

hunsbury0

We had a Nissan Almera 5 dr hatchback petrol. It was a year old when we got it. We kept it for 10yrs & no problems at all.
During the time we had it, we replaced both washer pumps (not expensive),
Oil sump ( got it from Ebay- lot cheaper than main dealer price),Brake discs & pads ( Normal for all cars), Exhaust, Tyres, Heater matrix card ( not expensive).

Because it had been relible, the we went for a 2 yr old Nisan Almera petrol Automatic 1.8. The wife wanted an automatic as my Mondeo is also an automatic.
When we were looking around, we found that Nissan were the best value for money Japanese car (made in UK though !!!).

cheap_plastic_spoon

Nissan Note is on my list once the Micra gets pensioned off.

happy_hooker

If you do not have to buy a brand new car www.motorpoint.co.uk have some near new cars with delivery mileage and you can now use your Tesco clubcard points towards the cost. (at 4 times their face value) anybody have a spare 2,500 clubcard points?

gunsandbanjos

If you want something to pull away quickly at junctions dont even think about the yaris!!! The acceleration is dreadful:eek: