Brun

.................on a car that was nippy, reliable, cheap to insure and had a bit of street cred then what would i be looknig to buy??????
Possibly not easy to cover all the criteria, but what can you lot come up with?

kammy

Honda crx 16v or the VTEC both are cool and cheap to insure. Or a 4th gen lude but they have highish insurance.
If your an ok mechanic, get a Mk1 golf GTI and you will be king of the streets.
Or if your gay buy a scooby sport and use wrx stickers and all you mates will envy you. (p.s DISCLAIMER/ANTI FLAME KIT nothing wrong sports, just replicas cars of all sorts bar ones with real performance)
Kammy

Brun

I think i should add that the car is gonna be for my lass. It will be her first car
She likes 106 quicksilvers and similar, but they are out of the price range at the moment

pslewis

Add £1k to your £2k and buy a nice MX5 - loads of cred. rock soild residuals (get ALL your money back) won't go wrong and is great in the sun!

Pete

Brun

That isn't actually a bad idea Pete

pslewis

I am very well known in these parts for talking a lot of sense

Pete

Dream Weaver

205 GTi/Mi16

Muffleman

MR2 Turbo, there's one in the For Sale forum cheap.

JoeyDeacon

Erm isn't this kind of missing the point? "I think i should add that the car is gonna be for my lass. It will be her first car "

bigsinky

DW are you still looking rid of that motor.

@brun

thought about the usual, saxo, clio, 106, 306, smart or for the money a skoda offers exceptional value for money (don't laff). ok scrub the skoda.

cheers

big sinky

bigsinky

ohh................make sure it has gold wheels..............just to annoy pete

cheers

big sinky

Kyl3cook

corrado 1.8 16V, or even a G60 if you like broken superchargers

taffyboyo

106 rallye is the one to get
or a nice 106 xsi

Dream Weaver

No keeping it, they're too much fun to get rid of.

Beginning work on removing the engine hopefully this weekend, will then see whats wrong with it and rebuild/buy a new unit.

Colinj

106 Rallye

Muffleman

Thousand apologies, didn't see that addendum.

Matt

astraboy

another for a 106 Rallye.
Anything which is declared "Uncrashable" buy Tiff Needell gets my vote.
astraboy.

RB5 Paul

I'd have to go with an early MX5,if you get a eunos import you should be able to pick one up for around 2k,best drivers car for the money and top reliability/residuals.

bigsinky

saw you at scooby shotout, that is a fast wee car. i know what you mean, loved my 1.6 in hawaiian blue with 1.9 alloys.

sorry for the hijack

cheers

sinky

66 Blue

your all wrong, u want a Renault 5 Turbo or a 200sx Turbo...
R5GTT For pure fun no car gets close!!!!

messiah

...should be enough left over for the obligatory max power subscription...

Squizz

Erm, I'm sure he said reliable...

Generally the CA18DET motors of the age he'll get aren't the most robust engines in the world.

Shame though...
Squizz

(Boosted up and big winged S13 200SX driving *****! )

davegtt

gotta go with the R5GTT, still crave getting in it more than the scoob and I own both

N1 SPAN

Pug 306 gti-6 are coming down around this price now and they handle better than a subaru!! You may need to be alright with some spanners though.

D-turbo a good bet, not quick but sooo cheap to run and insure and they don't look too bad.

taffyboyo

go on then messia, let us know what you would spend your 2k on?

cheddar bob

106 Rallye 1.3
Mk2 Golf GTi 8v
205 GTi 1.9

MarfGTti

Charade GTti

Brun

There are quite a few suggestions here which will hammer her on insurance. Remember we are talking about a lass with zero no-claims.
I'm quite liking the 106 Rallye thing myself, but i'm guessing that using handles to send the windows up and down may put her off. Small potatoes i know, but we are talking about a girl who may not see the fun factor of a 106 Rallye
I think she may be a more looks over function girl.
I put the MX5/Eunos idea to her and she wasn't keen