Car ideas £2000 - £2500

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Looking for suggestions..

Needs to be comfortable for Manchester to Brighton once or twice a month but also get me around manchester day to day. I'd like something smaller than a Mondeo and fuel economy is more important than performance....sadly. Finally I really don't like the look of Focuses so they're out (/me ducks)
 
I've been looking at 306 HDI's actually. Seems there are hardly any 3 door ones within 60 miles of manchester and that one linked to in the above post is a fair bit cheaper than most.

Anyone know how comfy they are long distance? I'm exactly 6 foot tall.
 
My brother has one and they're good for long distances - quite quiet and being a diesel can chug along at 80 at fairly low revs. They're not the fastest cars in the world but will happily do 50+ on a run from what my bro says.
 
ci_newman said:
A 1.8 Focus??? He's after fuel economy not power... The Focus can barely achieve 40mpg on a motorway run.
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40mpg is economical and despite the headline figure of 2 trips to Brighton every month he still isn't doing big mileage. A diesel will be older and less refined for the money, and a 306 is not my idea of fun on long journeys. It doesn't even have cruise control, let alone refinement at Motorway speeds hour after hour.

If you like Peugeots, a 406 Executive would be far more suited and probably newer than the same 306 for the money.
 
Ooh, that polo does look nice... like everyone's saying though, there are 1.9 TDI Polo's that are 3 years older with twice the miles going for the same price on Autotrader and nothing that comes close to that cars spec/price.

As for the 406, I would probably look at Mondeo's as well if I was looking for something that big. For now though I'm still hoping I can find something that appeals to me that is smaller than a 406 or Mondeo..
 
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I'll take that point on board but 56cm difference between a Mk1 Focus and a Mk3 Mondeo is a fair whack.
 
[TW]Fox;10157287 said:
I wouldn't want to do long trips in a Civic 1.4. Buzzing around town, fine. One end of the country to the other, no thanks.
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I'd concur with that. Something a bit more powerful would be ideal but I only do long journeys once a month or so.

More powerful Civic, Accord, or for shorter - Seat Leon (might be hard to get a decent one for under £2.5k.
 
406 Hdi would be on my list for that money, Diesels own the motorway tbh

That polo on piston heads is very cheap, got a great engine too.
 
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