My fellow car nuts, some advice if you please..

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:28 am

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

Post by **indigolemon** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:41 am

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?

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:25 pm

your on the right track for sure. anything but a ford of that age/price imo.

Post by **Lude-dude** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:34 pm

stay away from mazda 6 diesels

friend had no end of trouble with it

Post by **Gayno** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:27 pm

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!

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:30 pm

If you give us a near postcode, we can search?

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:06 pm

Near TR15 mate

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:16 pm

Cars priced between £1000 and £3000 within 30 miles

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used ... ynew%2Cnew

Toyota Corolla http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

Octavia VRS

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

5 door Civic

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

Picasso, great family cars, reliable petrol engines http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

Nice Avensis http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

Cheap Lexus IS200 http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

Post by **Donald** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:12 pm

Those Skods VRS models are pretty nippy I think!

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:18 pm

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