£6k for a hatchback, what shall I get?

elrasho said:
I'm talking about the old shape, it got updated in 2012 I think
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How can you be looking at buying the old shape for 6k :eek: it looks dated, the interior is awful and dated especially the dash. It was never a good car. That shape ran from 2005-2012 and can be picked up from 2k now it certainly doesn’t look like a 6k car to anyone unless it the Cupra.
The mk3 Focus is newer and superior in every way to that generation Leon.
 
Op why don’t you just lease a brand new Focus? My local Ford dealer has the new ST Line with sat nav etc and 140bhp for £179 down and £179 per month. Great car for the money and is a newer version of what you had.
 
Dav4 said:
Op why don’t you just lease a brand new Focus? My local Ford dealer has the new ST Line with sat nav etc and 140bhp for £179 down and £179 per month. Great car for the money and is a newer version of what you had.
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Well if he buys a 7K car after two years it'll probably be worth 5k, if he leases that ST line he'll have spent the best part of £4.5K and have nothing to show for it at the end, I'd really not want to be spending 4.5K on a 140BHP Ford Focus for 2 years.

I think his best option is a face lift Leon with the 140 BHP TSI engine, but he might have to up that budget to 7K. In fairness to the older gen Leon I know a few people who've had zero issues with there's but all had the 2.0 TDI engine.
 
elrasho said:
The face-lift Leon is from 2013 correct?
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Yes there’s a few 62 plates kicking round I think but mostly a 2013 onwards model. That’s the shape I thought you were talking about for 6k but I only seen 3 nationwide for sale on AT under 6.5k and even they were poverty spec with no nav etc. The previous shape 2005-2012 is far too old now to ever spend 6k on. The interior is terrible on them.
 
Dav4 said:
Yes there’s a few 62 plates kicking round I think but mostly a 2013 onwards model. That’s the shape I thought you were talking about for 6k but I only seen 3 nationwide for sale on AT under 6.5k and even they were poverty spec with no nav etc. The previous shape 2005-2012 is far too old now to ever spend 6k on. The interior is terrible on them.
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Found this, looks really nice and has everything I need: https://www.parkers.co.uk/seat/leon...0bhp)-fr-5d/for-sale/usedcfs-228934549690007/

Not many around though, I could stretch to £7.5k but is it worth it? I mean I'm planning to keep it for 4 years so will the saving I get using petrol over diesel should make it worth it.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Why isn't it? Road tax system changes are almost never retrospective.

Thats why a 1999 car is still taxed on the basis of engine size and not Co2, for example.
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Not wanting to bit pick, but iirc the 2008 tax changes applied back to cars manufactured from 2001 onwards. Not particularly significantly, but an increase nonetheless.
 
[TW]Fox said:
It almost did but there was a u turn on it. They capped cars registered before 21st March 2006 at Band K.
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I'm sure my 2001 Y reg 2.0 Focus tax was affected and was something silly like just over 225g/km co2 and registered in April 2001.

Did the band's not change somehow backdated to 2001? Wiki suggest it may have... And it was 2009 sorry.

In April 2009 there was a reclassification to the CO2 rating based bandings with the highest set at £455 per year and the lowest at £0, the bandings have also been backdated to cover vehicles registered on or after 1 March 2001, meaning that vehicles with the highest emissions ratings registered after this date pay the most. Vehicles registered before 1 March 2001 will still continued to be charged according to engine size, above or below 1549cc.
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[TW]Fox said:
That represented an increase of 10% at the most though.
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I did say it wasn't significant, just more than the normal minor increase. I was pretty annoyed at the time though as I was on a student wage :p But hey, people make entire car buying decisions on the tax rate and it's a pretty emotive subject for a lot of people for some reason.
 
So I went down to London in my nephews BMW 330d Automatic. Was so much fun driving an automatic that had a lot of oomph! This has oomees my eyes into looking at automatics, afterall most of my miles on the motorway.

He got his car for £5.5k and has full service history. Its an 06 plate but you cant tell. All he did was replace all 4 tyres with some really good ones. I'm looking into what kind of automarocs I can get for my budget, and I'm much more flexible with tje age of the car now.
 
elrasho said:
I'm much more flexible with tje age of the car now.
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So you have obviously realised an older decent car is better than a newer poverty spec hatchback :p
That’s why I think I said at the start of the thread drop the age requirements for your budget. I would take a 10yr old quality well specced car over a 6yr old 100bhp run of the mill hatchback any day. 6k would get you a decent 330, Audi A4, Titanium X Mondeo etc. All far nicer drives than the Leon’s and poverty spec Kia’s mentioned above.
 
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