need a good small car, 1 litre will be fine as long as its nippy and good mpg too!!! Not got any brand loyalty. Corsas seem to breed in our area - are they o.k. Are saxos or 106, rover 25 or why any better? Are small newish cars all about the same?
good small car???
Feb 01, 2005
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Unless you derive enjoyment, probably.
The Saxo and 106 is best as a hot hatch. Cooking models are, erm, heh, well, dull.
The Rover 25 is okay.
Ka kicks both into touch though. :)
You might have a look at Micras - if you can get a good one they can be good value, but beware on a test drive - get the thing nice and hot, and see if it idles smoothly - if it does not, and it stalls when hot, it can be a £500 bill for a throttle body - good bargaining point!
should have said - budget of about £3,000
In news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, JoHurt decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
Please don't top post.
The Ka is the best car of that size, followed by a Polo (1.2 upwards)
Don't buy a Corsa. They're crap. Honestly.
See the oily bit under the bonnet.
That's it.
HTH.
Must admit - after a few days analysing some of your posts, you're slagging of other peoples cars has kinda grown on me.
Ta, G.
Yaris or Micra. The rest are just dire.
Geeze pete, can't believe you'd recommend such junk.
Arrrrghh pete WHAT are you SAYING?
Don't forget the rust, the cramped interior, total lack of boot space and "I can't drive" bumpers.
I think you're mental.
*slashes wrists*
Open bonnet. See the big lump of metal in the middle, under the /strut brace/, he's referring to that.
If I wrote the above, I think you're right..
*wibble*
Nowt against Kas, that I can think of at the moment anyway but shurely a Micra's more reliable? And kind of fun, in the way that only small cars can be :o)
Panda Punto
Only downer on the Micra is it's ugly, and kind of /gallic/ in a japanese-british way. Buy the Yaris.
Exactly.
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