£1,500 Car - recommendations?
30 July 2003, 10:47 AM
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Good moring all:-
My Evo6 drinks more fuel than I can believe, and I am looking for an every day tootling to work car for about £1,500.00 - £2,000.00.
Mileage is not important, and looking throught the Autotrader the following have come up:- Clio, 205, Escort, Fiesta and the like.
Anyone got any ideas on what would be economical and relaible.
PS Saw a Toyota 3.0 Supra Turbo with 44,000 miles for £1,500 and was very very tempted but the wife will go up the wall if I buy a guzzler like that!
Thank you in advance!
My Evo6 drinks more fuel than I can believe, and I am looking for an every day tootling to work car for about £1,500.00 - £2,000.00.
Mileage is not important, and looking throught the Autotrader the following have come up:- Clio, 205, Escort, Fiesta and the like.
Anyone got any ideas on what would be economical and relaible.
PS Saw a Toyota 3.0 Supra Turbo with 44,000 miles for £1,500 and was very very tempted but the wife will go up the wall if I buy a guzzler like that!
Thank you in advance!
30 July 2003, 11:03 AM
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205 TD, get one of the last of the line versions, plenty quick enough to keep up with the flow, and my mate who does a 55 mile commute from Luton to London, is getting 52mpg out of his.
30 July 2003, 01:36 PM
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second the MK2 golf idea- you will be able to get a 16V Mk2 for this sort of cash. They will do 40mpg and 0-60 in 8 secs- you can also insure them on a classic policy. Add that to reliability and a fairly high spec for such an old car and how can you go wrong?
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30 July 2003, 03:47 PM
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Hmm, Autotrader has 2 that I can see 1@88K for an H plate £1200 and 1@88K for a J plate £1800
Not really mega miles for a car of that reputation.
Big Daz
Not really mega miles for a car of that reputation.
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30 July 2003, 04:07 PM
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Get a Civic. Frugal, fun, plenty around for that price and utterly reliable.
1.5 Vtec frugal version.
1.6 16v (90-92) cracking car. Cheap too.
1.6 Vti (92 -> ) great motors, very quick.
1.5 Vtec frugal version.
1.6 16v (90-92) cracking car. Cheap too.
1.6 Vti (92 -> ) great motors, very quick.
31 July 2003, 11:41 PM
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You want something like this 
FORD MONDEO GLX DIESEL TURBO
4DR SALOON, N reg. White, 68,000 genuine miles, 12 months MoT, 3 months tax, new exhaust, front brakes, wish bones & cambelt. £1,000.
Tony
FORD MONDEO GLX DIESEL TURBO
4DR SALOON, N reg. White, 68,000 genuine miles, 12 months MoT, 3 months tax, new exhaust, front brakes, wish bones & cambelt. £1,000.
Tony
01 August 2003, 09:41 AM
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I've just bought a filthy dirty but completely honest and original Golf GTi 8v Mk2, for about the same price as a Scooby exhaust.
These cars never cease to amaze me: at 112K miles and 13 years old it feels like a 2 year old car. IMHO they hide the miles and last the distance as well as any Merc,
Still go and handle as sweetly as they ever did.
These cars never cease to amaze me: at 112K miles and 13 years old it feels like a 2 year old car. IMHO they hide the miles and last the distance as well as any Merc,
Still go and handle as sweetly as they ever did.
01 August 2003, 08:02 PM
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Do what I did and a few others on here and get yourself a Daihatsu Charade GTti. Good mpg and can be tuned to be seriously rapid and you can get quite a good on for £1500.
1 litre 3 cylinder twincam turbo engine sounds great too !
Check out www.gttioc.co.uk
AllanB
1 litre 3 cylinder twincam turbo engine sounds great too !
Check out www.gttioc.co.uk
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03 August 2003, 07:40 PM
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Not if you have the contacts I have ! Quite easy to find with head gaskets blown and to replace them is honestly not hard. Could do one in 2-3 hours.
I know of 2 very good cars for sale and 4 others that need work doing like head gaskets but nothing scary.
If one co,es up though be very, very quick as they are highly desirable. Oh and forget the Parkers Guide prices as they are totally wrong !
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I know of 2 very good cars for sale and 4 others that need work doing like head gaskets but nothing scary.
If one co,es up though be very, very quick as they are highly desirable. Oh and forget the Parkers Guide prices as they are totally wrong !
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06 August 2003, 09:43 AM
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hmm i'm looking for similar inbetween scooby & next rice rocket & may well keep it for little journeys etc Any more thoughts on mondeos they seem quite cheap & there's bleeding loads to choose from so can be picky init Civic sounds nice for a bit better performance but a at a price.....
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Any more thoughts on mondeos they seem quite cheap & there's bleeding loads to choose from so can be picky init Civic sounds nice for a bit better performance but a at a price.....Si (decisions decisions
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