Advice on buying a motor required

I am looking to get shut of the old Rover as it has done over 100,000 miles now and is a 94 plate. What I am ideally looking for is:

If anyoen could recommend a particular vehicle I would be most grateful. Cash budget upto £3,000 maybe a bit more.

are car supermarkets any good? I assumed they were in the business of lending you money, and you just happen to get a car in the process.

I am looking to get shut of the old Rover as it has done over 100,000 miles now and is a 94 plate.

Why? My 93 k plate 600 is still going strong with 178,000 on the clock, oil change every year and apart from that has only cost me £117 in repairs in the last 3 years.

Unless you fancy a change, why bother?

-- RdB

Some might be, some might not be. They're designed to simplify the car buying process. I'd try one but I would also be aware of the price of the car elsewhere.

The one I went to in Newport was charging way too much for its cars and I didn't feel comfortable with the staff's attitude. I got the impression that if anything went wrong I'd be up the creek without a paddle - as happened to a friend.

I am looking to get shut of the old Rover as it has done over 100,000 miles now and is a 94 plate. What I am ideally looking for is:

If anyoen could recommend a particular vehicle I would be most grateful. Cash budget upto £3,000 maybe a bit more.

barry ( snipped-for-privacy@nooonsnasdadasdasdasdasda.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Even if you exclude the loan-shark finance, it seems to me that they're designed to stop you "shopping around" - with the handy side-effect that you then don't realise what the prices SHOULD be.

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No. Never ever go anywhere near any of 'em.

Not sure why some people are so against them on here. Maybe they went to a crap one.

The one in White City, just off the A40 in London, was good (we have bought 2 cars from there in the past 7 years). Or was at least before it recently turned into Car Giant. I'm not saying it's now bad, but no experience since the change over.

I've heard good things about the Car Giant in Enfield though.

Just think of it as just another car shop though. They do have a purpose. If you don't like, you don't buy. No one can _expect_ great things of a car they buy without shopping around properly.

That's a good old Honda though really. Is a 94 Rover 200 the Honda engine type too?