100 Miles/Day - Recommend a car please?!

I do this mileage. My weapon of choice is a Honda Insight gen1.

It might look a bit odd, but it's super economical, comfortable at speed, fun to drive, well put together and built to last. Plus, it's pretty much depreciation proof.

It's not a car to impress the ladies, but it's pretty much the cheapest way to do a 100mile commute.
 
DannyW said:
4 grand would buy you a nice 330d or 530d e39 / e46

or just about a e90 320d 05/06 plate
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Don't buy either of these, bad ideas especially when you rely on your car for 100 miles a day to get to and from work.

They'll cost more to do that commute than the current 1.6 Astra will.
 
DannyW said:
4 grand would buy you a nice 330d or 530d e39 / e46

or just about a e90 320d 05/06 plate
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So, according to this thread - you can't get a decent diesel VW Polo or Mondeo, but you can get a BMW 5 series.

Glad I always do my own research when buying cars. :p
 
[TW]Fox;24263001 said:
Don't buy either of these, bad ideas especially when you rely on your car for 100 miles a day to get to and from work.

They'll cost more to do that commute than the current 1.6 Astra will.
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Ok maybe the older x30d might give the odd problem, but the newer 320d's are good I think just a relaible as a mondeo/passat/vectra
 
Keep current car for 6 months until you decide the job is worth keeping and then move closer. :p
 
You should be able to get something which get 55mpg (1.9pd engine) at 70mph. Work out the difference yourself. Can't believe people are saying that 40mpg on the motorway is ok for this kinda commute just because their diesel's seemingly aren't very economic.

B@
 
B@Th*nG said:
You should be able to get something which get 55mpg (1.9pd engine) at 70mph. Work out the difference yourself. Can't believe people are saying that 40mpg on the motorway is ok for this kinda commute just because their diesel's seemingly aren't very economic.
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40mpg petrol: £292 a month
50mpg diesel: £245 a month

Not worth completely changing your car for an older one for, IMHO.
 
I had this exact predicament last year when I went from 4 mile commute to 103 mile commute. I chose keep current car. The amount that you loose buying a new car will take years to recover. The mileage that you do will see off any value to any car that you buy old or new. The car you own is not that uneconomical, drive at 60 and you will get better fuel efficiency out of it at the cost of 5 minutes per day.


You have recommendations for cars that are 7/8 years old and already have 100k+ on them, then your putting on at least another 55k miles in the next two years (24k commuting, plus all your social mileage), how much will that cost you as a whole? It also will be worth nothing once your done with it, the Astra may be worth something.
 
DannyW said:
Ok maybe the older x30d might give the odd problem, but the newer 320d's are good I think just a relaible as a mondeo/passat/vectra
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But mondeo/passat/vectra diesels of this age and price bracket are usually just ripe for dropping rather large bills, although not as large as a similar x30d could hit you with.

To my mind, if the OP must change, I'd advise he avoided diesel tbh.
 
[TW]Fox;24269446 said:
55mpg is an ambitious average to expect. But the point still stands.
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Ambitious is too kind. Impossible is more likely.

I've averaged 51.3MPG so far with ownership of my far more efficient ecodiesel, and even that isn't involving much motorway at all. If I were regularly doing 70MPH on the motorway, that average would drop somewhat.
 
I did 120 miles per day for nearly a year in my 04 mk4 astra and it was fine. At one stage after that I did 60 miles per day for 2 days per week then 260 miles per day for 3 days for 3 months solid and you know what it was still fine.

The car is still going too, albeit the daily commute is now only a few miles. Helped it had the Sri sports seats. Even as a 1.8 petrol I got 40 mpg on a run and after the year based on fuel and servicing costs a diesel would not have offset the additional costs over 3 years based on the same mileage.
 
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I do 100 per day in a tdi Ibiza and do 515miles sometimes slightly more on around 38 litres. So 61mpg ish. Real fill up figures not what the trip computer tells me. That said its the last diesel I will ever own. It's never given me any issues but I will not run a dpf diesel.
 
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