100 Miles/Day - Recommend a car please?!

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Evening guys!

Managed to bag a new job! Everything is great, except instead of driving 6 miles a day to a from work, I'll now be doing 100! :(

Anyway! I currently own a 2007 Astra 1.6 petrol that my old boss has offered me £4k for, and I'm wondering if it's worth me selling it and buying something more economical... I'm wondering if the cost associated with depreciation (I bought it nearly 3 years ago for £6k) and the cost of buying a different car will be worth it for the money I'll be (hopefully) saving on fuel.

Does anyone have any recommendations please? :) I'll probably be looking to spend up to £4k, but ideally not any more!
 
There are quite a few threads on here, Maybe 3 or 4 in the last week, about your exact requirements. Look in these, just flick through the first 5 pages and you'll find them. Sorry this isn't strictly what you're after but there's no point us just writing the same stuff out again.

Good luck with your purchase.

Ps. Do sell the astra without a doubt

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Congratulations on your new job!

Condolences on your new commute!

Edit: consider moving or, dare I say it, diesel.
 
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As much as I hate Astras I would not suggest spending £4k to replace a 2007 1.6 Astra for this task. It's not going to be THAT thirsty but it probably is going to be at least as good if not better mechanical condition wise than anything you'd buy for £4k thats more economical.
 
I'd not consider buying a different car but I would consider moving. After having such a short commute it's incredibly annoying having to spend another couple of hours traveling to and from work.
 
MadMossy said:
If you bought a diesel for 4k you'd have to do well over 100,000 miles to recoup the money lost selling your current car.
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This was my train of thought...

Sticking to ~70 on all motorway mileage over the last few days, I've been getting ~420 miles out of a £60-65 tank.. So.. :confused:
 
The Astra will be fine for this task until you can afford something appreciably better :) Nothing you buy for 4k which is more economical will be either a) more reliable or b) much more crap, i.e a 1.2 litre city car of some sort.
You should get 40+MPG with ease
 
If anything, I'd consider something for £4k that would be a nicer thing to cover 100 miles per day in than an Astra....

You most likely will spend more on petrol, not less, but, depending on what you got, it need not be massively more...

Mondeo springs to mind...?


Otherwise, just keep the Astra.
 
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Whilst the astra is a rotten astra it sounds like it fits the bill absolutely fine. I don't see what the issue is with sitting in a focus sized car 50 miles each way, it's not like they're cramped in the front. I drove a focus 100 miles+ a day for 1.5 years and it was perfectly well suited to the task

You're getting give or take 40mpg going by your info above - for reference my diesel civic wouldn't break 45mpg on a rush hour 40 mile commute so you're unlikely to save much, if anything by buying a car you don't know.
 
I was in the same predicament almost 2 years ago and bought a polo 1.4 Bluemotion. Super economical and sits well on the motorway.. My journey to work consists of country roads, a34, and M4. The book says I should get 80mpg or so... At 70-75mph I get just over 65mpg. At 65mph it goes up to 70mpg. Moving from a 2003 Honda civic coupe 1.6 I effectively halved my fuel bill!

My other car is a TTS to help balance the equation though :p
 
rodenal said:
Whilst the astra is a rotten astra it sounds like it fits the bill absolutely fine. I don't see what the issue is with sitting in a focus sized car 50 miles each way, it's not like they're cramped in the front. I drove a focus 100 miles+ a day for 1.5 years and it was perfectly well suited to the task

You're getting give or take 40mpg going by your info above - for reference my diesel civic wouldn't break 45mpg on a rush hour 40 mile commute so you're unlikely to save much, if anything by buying a car you don't know.
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The Bluemotion golf I've got averages 63 MPG outside of town (If I just sit at 70 on the motorway I can eek out a few mpg more)

Thats a significant increase on 40MPG.
 
Not going to be a £4k car though is it? So there woukd be extra expense to get the extra mpg, which in theory would take a good while to recover (assuming there was not going to be a budget increase anyway). Plus if that's a 1.6tdi I'd honestly rather drive the ashtray, horrible engine!
 
rodenal said:
Not going to be a £4k car though is it? So there woukd be extra expense to get the extra mpg, which in theory would take a good while to recover (assuming there was not going to be a budget increase anyway). Plus if that's a 1.6tdi I'd honestly rather drive the ashtray, horrible engine!
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Hmmmmm.
 
rodenal said:
Not going to be a £4k car though is it? So there woukd be extra expense to get the extra mpg, which in theory would take a good while to recover (assuming there was not going to be a budget increase anyway). Plus if that's a 1.6tdi I'd honestly rather drive the ashtray, horrible engine!
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4k Mondeo diesel, presuming he works 5 days a week he is going to do 45-48000 miles a year just commuting. My older higher mileage £1400 Mondeo diesel will happily do 60mpg sat at 70 with cruise on. That is a saving of over £2k a year.
 
Half that mileage

5 * 100 * 48

Anyway, its not that I think a diesel can't work out cheaper if he keeps it for a while and it doesn't break, its more that the current car seems to be doing a perfectly good job.

Oh and my tdci focus never once broke 50mpg, not sure how the same engine in a bigger car will get 60. You'll also never get a clear run
 
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