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Yes, just what a girl buying her first car needs - the Sport model. A far better suggestion than a conventional Yaris. Those extra tyre, fuel and insurance bills will be well worth it.
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Yes, just what a girl buying her first car needs - the Sport model. A far better suggestion than a conventional Yaris. Those extra tyre, fuel and insurance bills will be well worth it.
My polo's been no trouble at all. Absolutely minimum to run, and it's fairly nippy about town. Noisy on motorway though... Dashboards not as bad as janesy says. Yeah it's a bit boring but everything is solid feeling, If you can get a newer model then I don't think you can go wrong really.
Mine is pretty much this, with 60k miles
Mine is pretty much this, with 60k miles
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http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif.../page/1/postcode/ne61xf/radius/1500?logcode=p
£999 for 27k miles
Those tests were performed when the car was new, do you think the Polo will react identically after fourteen years? Both cars are as 'dangerous' as each other, getting an ancient car doesn't help things.
Also both of those Polos are deadly slow, surely a bit of overtaking power is safer if Mr Tractor driver decides he wants to out drag you with you on the wrong side of the road
I stand by my suggestion, you get a newer and better equipped car for the same money, one with a good engine.
1500 quid for a 12/13 year old car is not cheap. I sold a 11 year old Escort for £400. The only reason the 6n Polo is so much is because its a VW and people get moist about German build quality and perceived reliability.
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£1500 for a 12 year old Polo is 'cheap price' is it?
Fiesta 1.25, Yaris 1.0, Micra 1.0, etc.
German built lasts. Probably the fiesta's airbag would fail to inflate
Thanks for proving my above point. I'd rather trust a 9 year old airbag over a 14 year old one but I suspect both would inflate and you are just being silly now.
Yes, I am. But the roof of the fiesta. Come on. It's almost scrunched up! Lets hope that there are no back seat passengers
Perceived reliability? Proof is in the pud really. People know they're reliable because they've experienced their reliability.
My friend actually got a very tidy three door version for £1800 here.Yes, I am. But the roof of the fiesta. Come on. It's almost scrunched up! Lets hope that there are no back seat passengers
Perceived reliability? Proof is in the pud really. People know they're reliable because they've experienced their reliability.
Wanna give me 1500 and I'll go stick that 14 year old Polo through a wall and see how good it comes out the other side. Reliability is not a 14 year old Polo nor is a 14 year old anything the pinnacle of reliability.
Whilst the benefit of your wealth of experience is huge, I doubt a girl buying her first car is going to be 'bored' any less by a 1.3. It's a car, it looks cute and goes from A to B and puts shopping in the boot.
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I don't know, depends how she is like. She might be a little into her cars? The 1.3 is much better and the insurance isn't that much over the 1.0L plus you can find them relatively cheap under the £2k budget.
I bet she isnt.
She'll just be happy to be driving, never mind what car she is driving.
I don't even have a car, let alone £1500 to buy one!
Also, I never stated it would come out in one piece. Of course it would be written off, I'm thinking more about safety of the passengers. Also, as I said before, it's not going to be THAT safe, but the tests showed the Polo to be safer than the Fiesta. Before you mention its age again I'll mention this here so we don't go round in a circle again.
Exactly, that's what I was getting at.
I don't even have a car, let alone £1500 to buy one!
Oh well that explains it then, here's me thinking you had a wealth of 6n Polo knowledge ready to put me in my place but you don't own a car. Damn. Also both cars have the same ncap rating therefore they are deemed to be more or less as safe.
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Wow, that's pretty stupid to think that when you suggest a car, it automatically means that you know it inside out
I don't own a car but I'm currently driving a 2L Passat B6
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I was getting 41mpg from my Yaris TS. Also its quite cheap to insure. I did a quote on a 306 Dturbo when I had my Yaris and guess what. The 306 was £200 more a year than the Yaris even though at the time the Yaris was a group 7 and the 306 was a group 5.
The Yaris is cheap to insure for what it is due to insurance companies think what most people think. Its a Yaris and must be driven either by old people or women.
You can get T sports for less than £2000 nowadays. A 1.3 might be cheaper on petrol but 41mpg when driven fast and slow is pretty good in my eyes.
I did a trip from Bradford to Blackburn and back roughly 80 miles and I was getting about 50mpg even at 70mph and more
My friend in the car couldnt believe how little petrol the car used. I use to get about about 10 miles for every £1 I put in (104.9p at the time) on long journeys.
All Im saying is dont rule out the Yaris like most people. Its a good car and is a very good 1st car.
The Yaris is cheap to insure for what it is due to insurance companies think what most people think. Its a Yaris and must be driven either by old people or women.
You can get T sports for less than £2000 nowadays. A 1.3 might be cheaper on petrol but 41mpg when driven fast and slow is pretty good in my eyes.
I did a trip from Bradford to Blackburn and back roughly 80 miles and I was getting about 50mpg even at 70mph and more
My friend in the car couldnt believe how little petrol the car used. I use to get about about 10 miles for every £1 I put in (104.9p at the time) on long journeys.
All Im saying is dont rule out the Yaris like most people. Its a good car and is a very good 1st car.