6K on a new car any idea's

Ixon

Ixon

Ixon

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I currently have a Peugeot 207 2008 plate that seen better days on the bodywork, currently have 6K and whatever trade i get on the 207 to spend on a new car.

I want something quite nippy & not to big as it got to fit onto a fairly small drive.
pretty cheap to insure & reliable.

Any idea's on what to get?
 
What's your age? And what's your identification of the word "nippy"? As to some on here, 6 seconds to 62 is nippy, and others might see it as a little slow. Anything nippy at £6k probably won't be particularly reliable or cheap to insure either, what are your benchmarks for reliability? Is it predominately cost you're trying to circumvent or the faff of dealing with problems?

Sounds as though you should either just fix or ignore the problems with your 207, until you know what you want, rather than some randoms on the internet telling you what to buy. With £6k I'd buy either a tidy E46 330Ci with change or an E39 540i, but I'm guessing you'll want neither (and I'd advise against both).
 
I suppose anything is nippy when coming from a 207 is it not? :p
Op you need more details. 6k will get you a good mid mileage 2007 Focus ST, Golf GTI, Astra VXR etc all with 200+bhp 0-60 6.5 seconds ish.
Or if nippy means anything faster than your current car then there's a long list of newer standard hatchbacks
 
A mate was just showing off the 55 reg long wheelbase Mercedes S class he got for 6k. Low mileage, immaculate condition, etc. Lovely.
 
For something of similar size to the 207 I'd get a Fiesta with the 1.0 EcoBoost engine. Cracking little car with an excellent motor.
 
A Polo/Fabia/Ibiza with the 1.2 TSI in 105ps guise.

'Nippy'
Cheap to insure
Vaguely reliable (until someone starts ripping on TSIs just because on an unrelated note some early twin-charged 1.4s were unreliable)
 
People on this forum don't understand that people who say 'nippy' don't really mean 'hot hatchback' and people who do mean hot hatchback don't use words like nippy.
 
[TW]Fox said:
People on this forum don't understand that people who say 'nippy' don't really mean 'hot hatchback' and people who do mean hot hatchback don't use words like nippy.
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Indeed.
"Nippy", to the non-petrolhead means "small". My mother for example, describes her Ka as nippy. It most certainly is not by the petrolhead definition.

The Suzuki Swift Sport is a good shout. Great little cars.
 
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