Help Please - Golf Vs Ibiza

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My friend (female) is after a car. She has a max of £5500 to spend. She likes Golfs and Ibiza’s. We have found a Mk4 Golf “Final Edition 1.4 at a Stratstone dealer. She doesn’t care about the engine size and wants something cheap to insure. Heres the link

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/www/cars/VOLKSWAGEN+GOLF/Ne-2-4-5-6-7-8-27-44-49-53-61-64-67-103-133-146,N-4294966995-4294967159/advert.action?R=200816308102865&distance=13&postcode=RG40+3HU&channel=CARS&make=VOLKSWAGEN&model=GOLF&min_pr=&max_pr=&max_mileage=

Personally I think it’s a nice car. 2004 registered, has aircon, ABS, CD player etc. MOT’d till December, but the engine is probably the worse engine to put in a Golf. We’re going to test drive it today. I think I can get the price down slightly and get the tax thrown in too.

The only other car she likes is the Seat Ibiza 1.4 Sport. Now for the budget you can get a newer Ibiza with fewer miles. 05 plate Ibiza’s with around 25k on can be had for 5-5.5k.

What do you all reckon? Golf or Ibiza? Are the running costs for the Golf a lot higher?
 
howardcanning said:
The Golf will be nicer than an Ibiza but you should definitely try and find at least a 1.6. Unless she's 17 years old with 6 points and an accident to her name or something, insurance price difference will be of no consequence
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No shes 25 but with 0 NCB. There arent many other nice specced golfs for that price in the surrounding area. Im considering the depreciation and resale value too, thinking the Golf will be slightly higher than the Ibiza?
 
Yep, I already pointed this out to her to make her aware of it. There'll be 3 people in the car on the test drive so she will get a good idea of how it (under) performs. Trouble is, is that I dont want to dictate to her what she can and cant have, plus she wanted a golf initially, but didnt think she could get a nice one (ignoring engine size) in her budget.
 
MrSix said:
Righto, well have a look on Autotrader and Pistonheads. I was just pointing out that the MK5's are available for £5 as well.

Out of interest, why doesn't she go for a mk4 GTI?
I know she's not interested in performance, but you can get a nicely specced GTI for £5k easily. And due to them being one of the best mk4's (apart from the R32 obviously), they usually come fairly highly specced. With her age and sex, the insurance won't be much at all. For example I can insure a GTI @ 19 with 0ncb for £1300.

Just a thought :)
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What about running costs for the bigger engines, i.e. tax, fuel consumption etc?
 
Well, Ive explained to her about the engine, she's still not fussed, but Im going to show her some others on the autotrader, like the 2.0 GTI's etc, but we're still going to test drive the 1.4 just to scope it out.
 
She’s quite specific with what she likes and doesn’t like, and somehow it’s boiled down to the Golf or Ibiza. No 206’s, Clio’s etc, but cheap running costs are fairly important to her. Definitely no remapping! I dont think she would understand what a remap was...despite having a masters in chem eng!
 
Went to look at it, im not too convinced personally, as its very poverty spec...wind up windows. for £5481 they will tax it, service it, repair the kerbing, and repair a couple of scratches.
 
lol at this thread managing to get Fox suspended!

We went to have a look at an 05 Seat Ibiza 1.4 Sport 5 door in red on an 05 plate with 19k on. Its £600 more, but shes quit smitten now. I think the extra money would be well spent on the Ibiza, but theres a couple more 1.4 sports in the area for similar or lower price so I will have a look at those as well.
 
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