Everyday car help
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wondering if you guys would be able to help me out? as my mini is just about finished ive decided i might aswell get rid of my 406 coupe and just get a everyday car i dont need to worry about and will do me lots of miles to the gallon, i dont mind if its petrol or diesel but im guessing diesel will give me a lot more miles to the gallon. I still do my car audio competitions so i need a decentish size of boot, so far i have looked at corsa-c, clios, fiestas. im sure there is lots of others but i need a spare wheel well for batteries in the competitions so this rules out 106, saxo, 206. My budget is roughly 4-5k

Lupo gti, not sure on boot size but vw boots genaraly seam to be deep

rick

no the lupo is no good i was looking at the tdi as i aint worried about performance just mpg and i would of had to take the rear seats out

fabia vrs? perhaps even the non turbo diesel version (still surprisingly ok to drive)

Edited by evolotion on 13th Sep, 2010.

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Denis O'Brien.

yeah i have looked at them the only thing im not sure on is the boot space has the 5 door got a smaller boot than the 3 door?

206 sw not got a wheel well iirc but massve boot good performance and economy

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I've got a fabia vrs, the boot is ok size wise but not massive. MPG wise though I've had 65mpg when I was driving like an absolute grandad... hard to do that though with all the torque it has, it makes you want to boot all the time

pitty on the lupo, i have 1.4 16v as my everyday car and its great fun to drive and get about 45 mpg out of it

1972 998 TURBO SLEEPER

Astra van? Cdti 1.7
Lots of room great mpg and they look mint with the gsi body kit

seat leon tdi150

a golf and your ok, one of the last IV tdi 100 sport (sirka 2004) and you'll hve mpg sport look and a real boot.And And something almost indestructable

have looked into smart cars but heard so many bad things about them, anyone have any knowledge or experience of them?

mitsubishi colt diesel?

a smart doesnt have a big boot, afaik they drink a fair amount of oil aswell. Only have daft auto gearboxes.

Volvo estate. Why buy small car crap ?

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

because i want something thats economical and generally smaller is better but looking at it astras and other cars that size are cheaper than corsas etc with the same engine, small car prices are just crazy at the moment

everyone is looking for cheep small economical cars at the moment - bigger cars generally seam to be cheaper in comparrison.

As wolfie mentioned, 150bhp Leon could be a good deal - performance, economy and plenty of room for your juke box