10k budget - spec my friend a car

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Hey,

My friend is looking at getting a sensible newish car. He doesn't do too many miles, currently has a golf tdi after selling his boxster S.

He's after as new a car as possible, somewhere around the 50k max mileage mark that isn't boring like a golf tdi and has some sort of niceness around it.

The car doesn't have to be family friendly or anything else. Just a nice drive, nice car.

Sorry I can't be more exact but I don't think even he knows what he wants, so open to suggestions.

Cheers
 
This sort of thread is pointless.

'Spec somebody you dont know anything about and who doesnt even post here a car'.

Get him to post himself or all this thread will be is a pointless 'post names of cars' thread with no real feedback from the answers, etc etc.

We cannot, for example, work out where the arbitary figure of 'around 50k mikeage' has come from.
 
Ok....

Something reasonable to run (porsche was always going wrong), not done too many miles so that it has decent life left in it. I showed him a 2007 A3 TDI, he liked the look of it but open to suggestions of cars which fit the following -

Reasonably New
Not too slow
OK fuel economy
reasonable reliability
reasonable handling
Smallish car (a3 size perhaps)

I don't know what else you'd want to know. Can't get him to post here he doesn't use ocuk // forums.
 
Define reasonable to run?

I for example find my 530i very reasonable to run - its only £700 for a set of tyres, I can easily get 20mpg around town and servicing at the dealer is £300ish at the most and it costs under £1k a year in breakdown expenses. Other people would find that ridiculously expensive.

What is 'ok' fuel economy? I think 30mpg combined is ok yet there are threads on here where people are changing 'thirsty' cars because they only do 45mpg.

I repeat - this thread is pointless and will go nowhere. We are trying to spec a car for somebody who doesnt post here and who doesn't know what they want.
 
[TW]Fox;20438505 said:
Define reasonable to run?

I for example find my 530i very reasonable to run - its only £700 for a set of tyres, I can easily get 20mpg around town and servicing at the dealer is £300ish at the most and it costs under £1k a year in breakdown expenses. Other people would find that ridiculously expensive.

What is 'ok' fuel economy? I think 30mpg combined is ok yet there are threads on here where people are changing 'thirsty' cars because they only do 45mpg.

I repeat - this thread is pointless and will go nowhere. We are trying to spec a car for somebody who doesnt post here and who doesn't know what they want.
Well the fact that he's interested in an audi a3 should give you a rough idea of the answers to those questions.
 
The criteria is so vague that anyone offering a suggestion will be doing no more than guessing and i wouldnt base a purchase decision on the guesswork of someone i dont know.
 
Well the fact that he's interested in an audi a3 should give you a rough idea of the answers to those questions.

Well not especially, given that an A3 can range from anywhere between a 1.6 Diesel to a 3.2 V6 Petrol, with respectively varying running costs when it comes to things like fuel economy, tyre costs, service costs, insurance, tax etc. etc.
 
That's what ran through my mind as well.

I think we should all just ignore this thread and tell his friend to come on here and post for himself.

I should have remembered from previous threads... what a stuck up sub forum this has become.....

Don't have BMW or petrol powa........ go someplace else..

No probs, I will ;)

Cheers for all your errrm

Help.
 
I should have remembered from previous threads... what a stuck up sub forum this has become.....

Yea, we are totally stuck up because we've no idea where to go with a 'Someone you dont know and who wont come here wants a car but doesnt know what he wants only that it has 'reasonable' performance and 'reasonable' running costs and isn't boring like a Golf based diesel. He currently fancies a Golf based diesel'.

Absolutely that.

Nothing to do with the vague and useless opening post.

Additionally, it's because you dont drive a BMW. If you had a BMW we'd have been only too happy to spend time ****ing into the wind, err I mean coming up with rational car choices for Mr Random.
 
I should have remembered from previous threads... what a stuck up sub forum this has become.....

Don't have BMW or petrol powa........ go someplace else..

No probs, I will ;)

Cheers for all your errrm

Help.

To be fair, you stated your mate wanted to get rid of his diesel golf for something more interesting and then said he was keen on an A3 TDI which is exactly the same type of car - makes no sense :confused:.

People aren't stuck up, they just want some actual details to make a recommendation and consistent facts. We've had threads like these a million times before, so you can understand when people's patience runs a little thin.....

Sorry if you were offended, but you need a few more details before anyone can actually make a decent recommendation....otherwise it's just a waste of time.
 
And this is why 'my mate' threads suck. Had it been the mate posting the vague thread he'd have come back with increasingly more context which the OP cannot do.
 
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