fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Avensis or Mondeo estate.
Used car recommendations - family car up to about £10k absolute tops!!
- Thread starter Time Waster
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I believe the Superb is bigger with decent mpg. My mate had a company car Superb , well specc'd, very roomy
Time Waster
Veteran
Funnily enough I have not seen many of those which is unusual for mondeo. I think it is down to Ford going wholeheartedly into the SUV sector.
One main Ford dealer saleswoman told me that i should avoid the Ford SUV models and get a mondeo or focus estate once before we went for our last car. She was quite negative about their SUVs. She said of one model that the SUV lost an NCAP star but the normal car format based on the same platform kept it!!
One main Ford dealer saleswoman told me that i should avoid the Ford SUV models and get a mondeo or focus estate once before we went for our last car. She was quite negative about their SUVs. She said of one model that the SUV lost an NCAP star but the normal car format based on the same platform kept it!!
vickster
Legendary Member
I have been in a fabia and tbh that is out on size grounds.
So far out:
All Skodas
All Vauxhalls
Kia Soul,
Toyota Auris
Kia Ceed
Rav4
All BMWs, Audis and VW (my prejudice applies with this, they are all either dick drivers who own them or overpriced scene tax if VW)
Why have you discounted all Skodas when the Octavia for example would meet your needs?
Seat have just been rebranded, the infrastructure still exists through the VAG network/independents afaik (you're not buying new or likely even nearly new so warranty protection etc mostly don't apply).
What's a scene tax??
Peugeot made/make some estate cars too, ditto Hyundai
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
You'll probably get a bargain for the age as they just stopped selling - Nissan ditched their big Saloon many years before Ford and switched to SUV's. If leg room, go longer.
Passat estate ?. Plenty of room in there for a six foot driver and rear passenger - was in one for 4 hours. Three occupants, two bikes inside (one of roof) and a whole load of bike packing gear. Plenty of space for three.
Peugeot a good shout. I almost bought a 408 estate but the dealer was such a liar I walked away. Turns out he'd done time for clocking and other illegal practices. I drove my 1.6hdi up to 155k with little to no bother before the crash.
I was going to suggest a Vauxhall Signum (ultra rare but cheap for what they are) as they are massive inside but I seen that Vauxhall's are out. I owned one - I loved the sliding back seats to either increase leg room or boot space. You could also get a fridge as an optional extra.
What about a DS5? They are very well spec'd and would be available well within the 10k budget.
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Jody
Stubborn git
Indeed. Golf/A3/Leon floorpan for the Octavia and Passat/A4/Exeo floorpan for the Superb
They are a very highly specced cruiser for not much money
vickster
Legendary Member
vickster
Legendary Member
A friend of mine in Austria has the Superb hatchback, there's acres of legroom in the back and fantastically comfortable!!
Jody
Stubborn git
Except for the VW scene tax whatever that might be
Buy a Transporter and you'll soon find out what scene tax is all about.
vickster
Legendary Member
is that a van? minibus?
Jody
Stubborn git
It's a van in it's usualy guise but they get converted to campervans.
Time Waster
Veteran
I had a very good astra estate for years. It was very good including on summer tyres driving on snow if you handled it right as I found out after getting snowed into the Lakes once. The trouble is it is common to base decisions on your latest experience. In our case it was a dead engine in our Vauxhall Vivaro a few years after converting it and putting so much money into it!!! Kind of put us off or the astra estate would have been right up there in the list of possibles.
We could get a good deal on a 2008 model pug from family who are selling. The issue is they tend to burn oil when they get older and this one is so the family is not sure it is fair selling it to us even with a grand off the ticket. That is why I have not considered a pug.
Time Waster
Veteran
That was one of the main reasons we got a vivaro. I could have got ex AA transporters with boot lift rear door and actually quite low mileage for a van a that age but it went very quickly leaving only the higher mileage ones. However for about £2k more than what we spent you get a van that is about 3 or 4 years older with a very high mileage. Plus the cab space in a VW transporter is actually quite poor!! The van tapers in at the shoulder (from the bottom of the window) which when I sit in the passengers seat with my son next to me and my partner driving I feel like I need to open the window to give myself enough room to breath it is so tight. It does not look like it does but there is not enough room for 3 people even if one was a 7yo!! For that you paid a lot more or got a really old one or one with very high mileage. That is the scene tax.
Or you could get a ford or vauxhall car that is a significant discount on the VW car equivalent. Golf vs focus or astra when the focus was actually a better drive when I last looked at that size car. Then again who trusts VW these days after dieselgate??
