What Car Thread

[Daisy]

Folks,

Looking a family car for 5-6k max. Performance isnt an issue but prefer a diesel and sub 100k miles.

Considering anything, but after searching for hours today online i cant come up with anything.

Needs decent boot space.

Thoughts??

 

[puzzlement13]

Volvo s40? Had my mum looking at a few cars for just over that, she picked up an 06 320d today!

 

[anlygi]

That's MK2 Octavia Vrs money.

 

[tomah]

That's MK2 Octavia Vrs money.

Yep.

Hard to beat the price, performance, and boot size of a vRS. However, if you don't care for performance, you could get a fresher, lower mileage non-vRS Octavia.

I'm having this notion of moving up to the mk2 myself. Might be a stupid notion, but I'm doing more miles and I could probably easily save £700+ year with a diesel version of the vRS.

Anyway, the point is they're great cars.

 

[Mark_C]

Octavia vrs is a good call. My daily is a 2+ vRS mk2 and it's highly practical. Strongly considering changing to a Volvo S60R though. It just lacks that extra bit of power, imo. I don't find that big of a difference in running costs my old D5 S60 either.

 

[220ST]

Corolla verso in t spec guise would be worth a look for a family car, plenty of space and seven seats (rear seats are really only for kids) if needed. Also comes in a t180 if your looking for a bit of go.