With £2500 to spend on a car.....
19-02-2010, 17:39
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With £2500 to spend on a car.....
..... What would you buy?
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19-02-2010, 17:39
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
Golf MK4 GTi
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19-02-2010, 17:41
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
Skoda.. plenty of bang for your buck AFAIC...and many hit the seconhand market less than a year old... can't see why though...
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19-02-2010, 17:45
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
Personally, anything by Vauxhall within that budget, nice, reliable, comfortable motors
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19-02-2010, 18:15
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
Diesel estate with less than 100k & FSH.
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19-02-2010, 18:22
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
Is there any other criteria? Number of doors, expected annual mileage etc. ?
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19-02-2010, 18:39
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
I started the car hunt with a list of things a mile long that I wanted from the car, now I'm getting to the point where I'll buy just about anything.
Originally I wanted.
Diesel, less than 80k miles, FSH (if possible), reliable, not too expensive to insure.
I've looked at:
Peugeot 307 2.0HDi
Focus
Fiat Stilo
Astra
Those are the ones that if I could find one at the right price, in the right condition, I'd buy it tomorrow. Unfortunately I'm struggling to find one within budget and that isn't a complete shed (the last 307 I looked at had been clocked backwards by at least 40k miles!!!!!).
Hence I'm after other ideas on what I could look for.
Ignore the criteria above, I'm accepting just aboyt all suggestions at the moment 
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19-02-2010, 19:27
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
You can have my Vauxhall Vectra 1.8i 4 door saloon petrol 79,770k for 2.5k 
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19-02-2010, 20:53
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
You should be able to get a pretty decent Mondeo or Focus for £2500.
Have you thought about maybe a Toyota Corolla or Avensis?
Japanese cars are reliable if sometimes not the greatest to look at...
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19-02-2010, 20:55
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
Couple more Xantias, either either another Activa and maybe a V6, or even have an Activa converted to a V6 and maybe an XM.
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19-02-2010, 21:02
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
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Couple more Xantias, either either another Activa and maybe a V6, or even have an Activa converted to a V6 and maybe an XM.
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19-02-2010, 21:07
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
My 2.5k would go on a Focus, if I had a little more then would be something German.
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19-02-2010, 21:19
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
Focus for sure. Lovely car to drive, practical, cheap to run, parts available everywhere.
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19-02-2010, 21:48
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
Diesels are good for fuel economy but can be a nightmare to maintain unless you do any significant mileage as if you run into problems with the engine, can cost a bomb to fix, that's my take on it anyway
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19-02-2010, 21:59
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Re: With £2500 to spend on a car.....
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Focus for sure. Lovely car to drive, practical, cheap to run, parts available everywhere.
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Another  for a focus.
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