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What Car?
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On saturday, my beloved peugeot, Delilah, failed her MOT. It was a sad day and real tears were shed for the loss of my first car. Anyhow, time to move on.... So what car should I get next? Needs to be no bigger than a 1.6 engine for insurance reasons (Im still in my first year of driving) and I quite like the idea of a 2-seater. So far I've been looking at mazda mx5's and vauxhall tigras. Got a budget of about £1500 big ones. Any ideas?
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mx5's are nice. doubt you'll get one in good nick for your budget tho.
for that price i'd say you were looking at a Punto or a fiesta or something, which would be in alright nick for that price.
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Get a corsa sport or a fiesta.
Fiats no longer have that image of being unreliable, its the sort of thing someones dad would say.
I just don't like Fiats much I guess.
Tigras are just rubbish, renound for it as far as i know. Underpowered, unreliable and apart from that, they look disgusting.
review here: http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/Review.aspx?model=979&page=1
1.5 out of 5. not very good.
i have an N reg 106, still going strong! (apart from a broken petrol guage and a hole in the exhaust). but these things can be fixed!
Well this is the thing- she failed on silly stuff like a wiper blade, side light not working, a bolt missing from the drivers seat... the most important thing really is brake hose needing replacing but with aforementioned boyfriend & his brother we can fix all those things oursleves. Thing is I have someone willing to buy her off me for £850 once she's fixed, so I'm thinking I should sell her while I can and put the money towards bigger and better things. I was planning on selling her in the summer anyway
Yes they're old. But they're incredible fun, nippy, great handling, cheap to run, cheap and easy to put right. 205's are the best Pugs ever made.
Anybody that's had one will tell you the same, for one of you first cars you can't go wrong.
But as claustrophobic as hell.
I have a Yaris. It's a great wee car :yes:
I wouldnt have thought you'd be able to find a Tigra for £1500, my friend wants one and we went car shoppin all over the place and didnt see any for that price. I think they're quite nice though.
205 1.6GTi. Cracking car, little chance of rot, cheap spares from GSF, and a proper drivers car.
I'd not want one, and I'm not a father - as far as I know .
I'd recommend one.
Lol i didn't think it possible but in one post i have completely changed my opinion of you
I have many surprising levels
The swift do a 1.3 GTI that would give alot of scooby's a run for their money or you can go really small with a cinquento
There arn't many production cars in the world that could beat a 205GTi on it;s home turf i.e winding country lanes. You never feel liek you have to slow down.
1.4GT woudl proabbly be a better bet for a relatively new driver though, in terms of insurance anyway. I don't know about the insurance on the DTurbo but mine was severely cheap to run (probably the most economical I've had) but it pokey too.
205's
Just a bit small for me now, but I don't see many newer small cars being any better tbh.
My mate had a Fiat Uno Turbo and at the time it was the fastest small car I'd ever been in. Incredible.
But yes build quality was lacking.