What Old Car Should I Buy?

[javadude]

What old car should I buy if I was going to get something cheap, reliable, economic and family sized?

[Parthiban]

There's been a lot of threads like this recently, is everyone looking for a runaround?

What I've learnt from all those threads is that the Ford Focus seems to be the general concensus but I'm interested to see if anything different comes out of this one :)

[dave1]

What old car should I buy if I was going to get something cheap, reliable, economic and family sized?

Depends on what you class as cheap. Cheap is a relative term.

[Tango]

What old car should I buy if I was going to get something cheap, reliable, economic and family sized?

Could always go for a used IS220D...cheap, mostly reliable, reasonably economic and family sized until the kids get near adult size .

[WylieCoyote]

Primeras are pretty good as a second hand buy.

[P4UL T]

Mondeo diesel, Cheap to buy and run, 50-60 mpg, drive very well and big size

[Andy-R]

I loved my 306 2.0 D Turbo never had a problem with it in 4 years and looks really tasty aswell.

[Dave-Ellen]

pushbike with trailer ?

[Gord]

What old car should I buy if I was going to get something cheap, reliable, economic and family sized?

Could always go for a used IS220D...cheap, mostly reliable, reasonably economic and family sized until the kids get near adult size .

He has got one :D

[Anees]

Whats the budget?

[Chris.S]

yaris's are fairly cheap these days

[Monster-Mat]

Carina

[javadude]

Cheap enough that I won't care when someone carves a series of deep gouges in the bonnet, or manages to put scratches in the entire width of the rear bumper. I'm getting a bit fed up with people complete lack of respect for other peoples property.

I'm also only doing about 10 miles a week at the moment as my current contract is in London. The car sits outside our house all week while I take the train and yet I'm spending nearly £400 per month HP and the same again for train fares.

Perhaps its time I spent < £2k on an old Jap car. I guess it would need to be carina/primera size for those odd times when it needs to be loaded up for hols etc although I don't like the look of either. I once drove an Avensis and it was so boring and boomy from road noise. Not sure I can bring myself to do this... I love my IS220 but it just seems like an expensive target for idiots at the moment.

I do like the look of the recent A3s although perhaps they're not attractive enough to get the wrong sort of attention. Probably too small for holidays etc though.

[javadude]

I decided to keep the car for now. If it happens again then its going though. I can't afford £250 excess too often

Here's the reason for my ownership doubts. £745 worth of damage to the bonnet... (Actually it doesn't look so bad in the photo. Its worse in real life plus there are other scratches out of photo.)

[wildybeast]

fords are a good bet.lots of second hand and cheap spares to be had.renos with the key card to start a big no .me mate got a laguna.key knackered up and cost him £600 for the repair.ouch.

[John Lawley]

Volvo V70 diesel?

[javadude]

I'm not old enough to drive a Volvo :)