You will struggle to get a constant >30mpg from a 2l turbo petrol, especially in a heavy car. You will need the patience of a saint and a very light foot.
Which performance estate under £10k?
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You will struggle to get a constant >30mpg from a 2l turbo petrol, especially in a heavy car. You will need the patience of a saint and a very light foot.
Well we got our Subaru Legacy 3.0 R Spec-B for the dog, good boot size, decent suspension for the back roads, handles amazingly for its size. Feels a bit slow without a turbo but it still manages decent figures for an estate.
only compromise - 21mpg average - you wont get a big car to shift without using a lot of fuel. The BMW 3.0TDI would be a great engine to look at though ~30mpg I would think in an estate.
Dog + 5 people, it was still fun going in circles!
only compromise - 21mpg average - you wont get a big car to shift without using a lot of fuel. The BMW 3.0TDI would be a great engine to look at though ~30mpg I would think in an estate.
Dog + 5 people, it was still fun going in circles!
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yeah, the bmw 3.0 D's are meant to be great. There is one 70miles from me, £9k but with 110k on the clock. Turbo i would guess is near its life.
oh yeah!
Although a fella at work said get a rexton! merc engines in them.
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There's a lot of fussing over small mpg numbers here. The difference between 25-30 mpg is marginal.
Maybe you shouldn't be dropping 10 large on a car.
Maybe you shouldn't be dropping 10 large on a car.
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You need to get over that if you want to stand a half decent chance of even getting a car, let alone one in the right spec and condition.
Best suggestion so far IMO. Ticks every single box for the OP.
It won't cost lots to run, it won't be expensive to change the tyres, but the rest is true. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...rice-from/6000/sort/priceasc/page/1&logcode=p
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Relatively speaking it will - £100+ for tyres is expensive and compared to a Honda Accord, an X5 costs lots to run.
I do not understand the persistence with which people are pimping 8-10 year old big German cars in this thread when its pretty clear from the OP's post it just isnt what he wants. If you'd accept a nearly new Peugeot and want to keep an eye on running costs why would you chose a 9 year old X5 as an alternative?
I would, yes, because I'm a huge E39 enthusiast. I would suggest there is little point in people who just want a decent car doing this, though.
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That would probably get my money.
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Plus 17 MPG.
You've been given lots of good advice (lots of crap advice too) and yet you still pick random rubbish vehicles.
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LPG conversions are asking for monstrous bills tbh.
What makes you say this? except the fact its done over 100k?
Quite, my 330d has done over 152,000 on the original turbo.
This and performance estate don't go together.
From the your list the zafira is much to small for two large dogs unless you don't need the back seats, in which case just drop the seats in your current A4.
Otherwise things missing off your list would be a Vectra estate, though a VXR wouln't get near 30mpg in normal usage, or an Avensis. Most of the mpv or suv type things don't actually offer much usable boot space as they're tall rather than long.
except the runing costs and 30mpg boxes
The runing costs are cheap .... for the performance they offer. If you start comparing the running costs with much slower cars, like a peugeot 406, then yes the vectra is going to start looking expensive to run.
Also, you wont get more than 25mpg unless on a motorway run. Only thing that made me suggest it was the "Performance estate" title and the fact he said in the OP he'd had an Astra VXR before and looked at the Zafira VXR.
Seriously, i dont think the OP is after what we would usually call "fast" He's just after something thats not going to be horrendously slow.
Avensis and 'performance' just dont go together, very very dull drive.
My money would go on a mint ST220 estate with all the goodies
