Need 4 door car, 1k to spend.
 

Must be bigger than Fiesta and low on insurance.Any suggestions peeps.

****reon xsara picasso petrol **** boxes but more reliable than the diesels. Can probably find you one if you want a pal of mine sells loads of them.

Ah sorry must be saloon.

Assuming you could not stomach a rover 45 perhaps a 1.6 avensis ? There are some audi a4's at that money but will have well over 100k. Personally I would pay a bit extra insurance and get a Honda accord V-tech can be got for £500 and last for hundreds of thousands of Miles.

Volvo S40 (96-04 model).
Had one S40 and two V40's (estate) over the last ten + years (now got a V50) and they have all been pretty bulletproof regards reliability. Great build quality, plenty of kit if you get the right model and extremely comfortable, so much so that when my wife suffered from slipped disc she would want to go for a drive because it was the most comfortable place to sit. Only drawback is they use a bit of fuel no matter which engine they have unless it is a diesel. Cheap insurance though, my last one was 200bhp T4 model and even though it was group 16 was still less than £400 for my wife to insure with 4 years ncb.

I've narrowed it down to these:

VW Bora SE
Mondeo Ghia late 01 shape
VW Passat 20V sport
Vauxhall Astra DTI LS
Focus ( upto 2.0ltr )
Lexus IS200

Be mindful that the 20v engine in the Passat was replaced by the old 2 litre that you will more likely find in a Bora SE and is pretty much the same as that used in the mkIII Golf GTI (which in turn is basically the same as the 1.8 as used in mkI and mkII GTI's) because the 20v engine wasn't particularly that good (in non turbo form at least). Non turbo 20v Golf GTI mkIV's went back to the older engine after a year or two of production.
Personally I wouldn't bother with the Astra, not particularly nice to drive and turbos can go on them, and they have one of the worst gearboxes (any Vauxhall of that age) I have ever used. Focus and Mondeo are ok, like to go through suspension bushes but are pretty reliable, be a bit wary of a Lexus IS for that money, although very reliable could be costly to fix if it does go wrong.

Astra DTI ls in a saloon?? Good luck, like hens teeth!!

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Im selling a mk6 escort fully modded but low on insurance and running 18" 4 door been a family car for us but changed over to Scooby

Here is one Scooby595

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1507497484...9#ht_500wt_949

The car isn't for me Nelly, the guy who wants it is about 70 years old.

Omg he'd have a heart attack in my escort lol its proper street modded lol

That is a hatchback, not a saloon. POS.

If its for a 70 year old a Volvo would suit down to the ground.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...ge/9?logcode=p

Or http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...11ll?logcode=p

Old ****er should be on the bus at 70

End of thread :thumb:

Must mention that he wants manual not auto.