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My fellow car nuts, some advice if you please..
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:28 am
by bb1boy
Ok here's the deal, my mate and his Mrs are buying a new car. They want to start a family so 4 doors is preferential.. here's the scary bit, they want to buy a Ford Focus! They have circa £2.5k to spend.. I showed them this article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18973775 and I now need to recommend to them some suitable Jap motors..
So far I've come up with:
Honda Accord
Honda Civic Saloon
Toyota Avensis
Toyota Corolla
Can I have your input please, people? We have to save these good people from the lure of the ST170 (5door - gross)
Cheers
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:41 am
by indigolemon
Give Nissan a wide berth, and have a look at the Mazda's too. The Mazda 3 is a Focus chassis but with Jap engineering on top - might be worth a look?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:25 pm
by lewd lude lover
your on the right track for sure. anything but a ford of that age/price imo.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:34 pm
by Lude-dude
stay away from mazda 6 diesels
friend had no end of trouble with it
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:27 pm
by Gayno
Lude-dude wrote:stay away from mazda 6 diesels
friend had no end of trouble with it
I have the 2.0 petrol version, great car!
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:30 pm
by nickyboy
If you give us a near postcode, we can search?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:06 pm
by bb1boy
Near TR15 mate
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:16 pm
by nickyboy
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:12 pm
by Donald
Those Skods VRS models are pretty nippy I think!
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:18 pm
by nickyboy
Nippy and very easy to extract extra power, 180bhp standard, just a remap sees an extra 20%
High mileage ones on their first turbo should be bought with an expectation of buying a replacement blower though
