Car Suggestions, < £5,000

jakeke

jakeke

jakeke

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Hey I thought you guys could add some intelligent insight.

I'm looking for my second car, I'm 21 and have been driving 3 years. I have a maximum budget of £5k. I'm basically looking for a sensible car, don't need a big engine or sports features etc, to give you an idea, the current favourite is a VW Polo.
Thanks for any ideas.
 
In all honesty, that's too vague. Surely you have some requirements you would like from your car?

Here's a few things to consider:
Practicality
Age
Reliability
Build Quality
Handling
Excitement
Performance
Looks
Toys inside the car
 
Okay, sorry.

I'd like it to be reliable and have a decent re-selling ability, to be at the most 7 years old. Good build quality. I'm not bothered much about handling, excitement, performance etc but I'd like it to look decent. As for toys, as long as it has speakers I'm happy. I'd also like for it to be relatively low mileage, below 30k.

Hope that helps.
 
jakeke said:
Okay, sorry.

I'd like it to be reliable and have a decent re-selling ability, to be at the most 7 years old. Good build quality. I'm not bothered much about handling, excitement, performance etc but I'd like it to look decent. As for toys, as long as it has speakers I'm happy. I'd also like for it to be relatively low mileage, below 30k.

Hope that helps.
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Why the 30k mileage? anything of any decent standard will have been driven more than this for the budget, especially if you are looking at potentially 7 year old cars!

Anyway. forgetting the mileage (because tbh its silly), ford focus.
 
7 Years old and 30K miles :confused: lol

How many miles a year do you do?

I'd lose the unrealistic mileage expectation and get a sensible hatchback, Golf/Focus/Leon etc.
 
It doesn't have to be 7 years old, I just want it to be newer than that. I only mention 30k mileage as I'd like the car to be in relatively decent condition, is it as silly as you lot make it out to be?
 
jakeke said:
It doesn't have to be 7 years old, I just want it to be newer than that. I only mention 30k mileage as I'd like the car to be in relatively decent condition, is it as silly as you lot make it out to be?
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A 7 year old car doing the current UK average of 12k miles per year would currently be sat at 84,000 miles.

Bar the odd example or two, you would need to be looking at 3 year old cars in order to find something in the 30k mile bracket.

As everyone else has said, forget about the mileage criteria and go on the car itself. A looked after BMW 5 series with 150k of motorway miles on the clock is likely to be a nice car still, a looked after 5 year old Fiesta with 70k of town miles on the clock is also likely to be still reasonable, but less likely than the beemer.

Given your blanket approach to car buying (i.e. you havent stipulated large/small/medium etc), 30k is unreasonable imo.

As has been said, look at medium sized hatches, Seat Leon, Golf (overpriced...) Renault Megane if your feeling daring, Ford Focus etc etc.
 
theDude said:
Alfa 147.

I think i will be getting one as you can pick one up with leather and a lot of toys (cruise, duel climate, heated seats) for less than 5k for a low milage 2003-2004 one.
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Fine if you have the extra money set aside to fix it if it goes wrong. I'm not one to rule out cars because of stereotypes, but Alfa's really do kinda deserve theirs... v nice cars though and so cheap for what you get (probably for a reason ;))
 
forget about looking for a certain mileage. Judge a car on service history and conditon over mileage. A car with 30k could have had a lot harder life than a car with 100k
 
jakeke said:
It doesn't have to be 7 years old, I just want it to be newer than that. I only mention 30k mileage as I'd like the car to be in relatively decent condition, is it as silly as you lot make it out to be?
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considering I do almost that in one year and my 7-10 year old cars generally are not wrecked by 1 year of my driving I would say it is a bit daft.
 
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