Please spec me a sensible estate!

robnut

robnut

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Hey guys. Family member wants a newer car as follows;

Upto £6k
small estate (been looking at focus and volvo v50)
newer than o2
tax less that £200 a year
Not dog slow.


What ya suggest?
 
let's get away from the taxation class and ask some important questions

like


how many miles do you do a year?

and... define dog slow

edit: if it's lots, focus diesel, if it's not lots, focus petrol.
 
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Tax aint my choice, just a stipulation from the family, i can talk them out of it. They do 10-12k a year.
 
I suggested the mondeo estate, they said it was too big, looking at the focus estate and you seem to get little spec for your money. I hate looking for family members cars:(
 
Golf estate mkIV/V?(no idea on V prices 2nd hand so I'm guessing wildly there). Should be able to pick up a pretty decent condition IV for that money.
What sort of spec are they chasing? Electric windows/air-con and a nice stereo?
The golf certainly comes in as a nice size estate but my experience of them is limited to the TDI SE which was a very easy car to live with for city and motorway use.
 
robnut said:
I suggested the mondeo estate, they said it was too big, looking at the focus estate and you seem to get little spec for your money. I hate looking for family members cars:(
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They want a small estate? :confused: Well the focus isn't small small, but I would have thought if one is going for an estate, size would be the point?
 
You cant reason with family, especially a woman. They have narrowed it down to the focus estate, octavia estate and volvo v50. Im trying to get them to look at the saab 93 too.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
saab 9-5, i know people will laugh but its very high spec and a certainly not slow, got me to the alps and back in perfect comfort and everyone always commented how nice it was for the meager pennies i paid for it
 
I've got an Octavia estate in Elegance trim and can recommend it, although I find it weird that anyone buying an estate would then set criteria of 'not that big' - that's kind of the whole point of estates! In hindsight if I were buying now I'd probably go for a Mondeo estate. Not a fan of the v50, friend has one and no matter what I try long trips in the passenger seat are hideously uncomfortable, it's also not that big inside and has a weird dash.
 
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