Cars with driver assists under 14k?

any modern car really

golf/focus/civic at 2/3 yr old and make sure all the options are ticked.
what size of car are you after. as above mid segment or something bigger?

£14000 gets a lot of car at 2/3 yr old or 5 yr old S class if your a bit brave with potential bills and want ultra luxury and spec
 
Lane assist and adaptive cruise control are available on A4 B8's (ACC reasonably common), e90 BMW's (quite rare though), E60 5 series and F10 5 series. A6 C7 from Audi would have it as well.
Obviusly the newer cars have them as well, but if you want to whaft around in great comfort, a 6 cylinder E60 makes an amazing motorway cruiser. Obviusly maintenance would be more than a Golf, but a nicely spec'ed 530D LCI can be reasonably reliable and had for half of that 14k. :)
 
Another vote for a Golf/Leon with ACC (and DSG). Sod ACC with a manual, as that somewhat defies the point of using it in stop-start traffic.
 
mjt said:
Another vote for a Golf/Leon with ACC (and DSG). Sod ACC with a manual, as that somewhat defies the point of using it in stop-start traffic.
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I for one have found ACC most useful on the motorway. Even in its ancient implementation of my 2008 A4 has made long trips significantly more gentle on my right ankle. Mind you, that's because the Audi pedals are horrendous in the first place... :(
 
Cristian said:
I for one have found ACC most useful on the motorway. Even in its ancient implementation of my 2008 A4 has made long trips significantly more gentle on my right ankle. Mind you, that's because the Audi pedals are horrendous in the first place... :(
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My new commute has a bit of stop-start and the combination of ACC and DSG allows me to read the news on my phone on my way home :p

On the motorway it's also brilliant, but I find people will always take the gap it leaves to the car in front unless your dawdling behind a lorry. And the fact it slows as you approach a car in your lane means you're forced to pull out earlier, which can be annoying for traffic behind if it's busy.
 
To be honest on the A4 on it's minimum distance setting the gap is fairly reasonable, although as you said there are people out there who will consider even 20m at 80mph to be "plenty of space for me to go in". Talk about the 2 second rule haha. Agree it's not perfect, although I found it reasonably well behaved and willing to accept occasional prods of the throttle to avoid being a nuisance. Same with the Audi brake guard, it can annoyingly beep at the odd roundabout when you'd flow in, but so far I've only managed to really confuse it once whilst driving in town and accelerating towards a stationary car so that I could make errrm use of a gap on the adjacent lane.

As for the phone, I avoid it like the plague even in stop start traffic or whilst stationary. Police in London have no issues in driving around stationary vehicles at a traffic light and giving you and getting you prosecuted. Whilst 6 points hurts and so does £200, what hurts infinitely more is that most insurance companies out there won't touch you with a CU80 and those who do will bend you over a barrel over it.
 
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