Peugeot 107 - Time for a change, help!

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I currently drive a Peugeot 107 which I purchased from new. I paid around 5.5k for the car, it was £200 to insure has £20 road tax and sips fuel great car for economy.

I keep finding myself wanting something a bit nicer, I have a bit of money ( 5K ) to put towards something better. I am happy to look second hand or brand new...

Key things

* Great sound from stock system
* Fun to drive
* Reasonable MPG ( I drive 100 Miles per day to work and back )

Should I just stick with what I have got? I would appreciate any advice would be nice to have a car capable of overtaking those super slow drivers for a change!

If I could sell mine and get something a bit more exciting for not to much more money then that would obviously be great.
 
Bloody hell 100 miles a day in a 107 you're better man than me

You're going to have to accept that if you change there is nothing that will not increase your costs fairly significantly, have you thought about what you would be comfortable with running costs wise?
 
I had to do 150 mile round trip today in my little corsa and arrived back home feeling dead but the difference in fuel usage to my normal car was significant, I would say the journey cost about £15 worth of fuel rather than the £40 to £50 I normally pay.

My first year of commuting to london was done in my corsa and I drove me and my mrs into town every day which was a 90 mile round trip on £10. I put 35k on the car in a year and in that time it needed nothing but a service at £98 and didn't even need tyres or brakes.

I then went to get my car serviced a year later and foolisly walked out with another new car this time a bigger 1.8 Twin Top Astra... Again I did the same journey to work and back, making this step doubled my costs and a bit more. Fuel was costing me £20 odd a day, tax was more expensive, tyres were bigger, more expensive and wore faster. And servicing costs doubled, thats before mentioning the depreciation.

What I am trying to say is that only really you can make the call on the car, what constitutes not much more money and also what you would class as exciting? The 107 is pretty much the cheapest thing you could run, it even appears to under cut my corsa which I thought was silly cheap to run with road tax of £120 a year.

Put it this way, I cant imagine you not doubling your costs and more with anything other than a push bike.
 
Even with great economy, driving 100 miles a day surely costs you enough in fuel to make road tax largely insignificant? I do 80 a day and wouldn't consider doing it in anything much smaller than my Mondeo. It's a diesel and I get 55mpg. Do you get that much doing presumably motorway speeds in a car with a small engine?
 
Freakitchen said:
Even with great economy, driving 100 miles a day surely costs you enough in fuel to make road tax largely insignificant? I do 80 a day and wouldn't consider doing it in anything much smaller than my Mondeo. It's a diesel and I get 55mpg. Do you get that much doing presumably motorway speeds in a car with a small engine?
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Was averaging about the same (55mpg) today in a 1.4 89bhp corsa on a motorway journey (150mile round trip). As i said to do the journey in a 1.4 corsa costs about £15, I did it in the Astra and it cost about £25-£30 and in the 911 it can vary from about £40 to £50 of the decent juice depending on application of loud pedal.
 
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They'll do 60mpg motorway, remember that's petrol so cheaper and even in traffic they're really incredibly economical too. I agree costs are likely to be somewhere near double (all in) for a significantly larger car.

Personally if the op can bear to just keep running the car till it dies that's what id do, maybe get something fun to use at weekends, you'll only need s couple of grand
 
In essence it just ain't worth it? The 107 is pretty good on MPG even at 77 on the motorway everyday. Tank of fuel is around 40 which will get me between 400 and 500 miles depending on how heavy my foot is.

I was thinking a diesel of some description, at the end of the day the car isn't terrible. It is pretty nippy at lower speeds.
 
I had one of those 107s for a few days when my car was being serviced and I was very impressed with the economy although I did find it uncomfortable and the stereo wasn't very good at all. My usual car is Polo 1.9TDi which I have been fairly impressed with, it quiet and will happily sit at 80 on the motorway and keeps up with traffic easily and It has an 8 speaker stereo as standard which is definitely the best sounding stereo ive heard so far in a small car. Its pretty good on fuel, I usually get around 500miles to a tank but I have a shorter commute and use my car quite a bit around town, the most ive had to a tank is 590 to the fuel light although than was on a longer trip. The only problem with my car is however the high initial purchase cost, you could get a bigger car for the money my polo cost but in my case I didn't really want a huge car. But overall id definitely recommend it for someone looking for a comfortable car with reasonable running costs.
 
OP: For years I had a 1.0 Micra and it cost very little to run and never broke down, but I kept it for 6.5 years as it really was trouble free.

However, the thought of 100 miles per day in it, with a noisy gutless engine, no air conditioning and poor stereo (even though I added a Sony CD player and 6x9s in the parcel shelf) the thought of driving it now makes me cringe.

I currently have a 2.0 TDCI MK2 Focus and for the price you pay they are fantastic. I strongly recommend a MK2 Focus with some form of diesel engine in it.
 
rIcK said:
I was thinking a diesel of some description, at the end of the day the car isn't terrible. It is pretty nippy at lower speeds.
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It is not nipply and it is terrible, but you are like I was - You don't know any better :p.

I was doing 2000-5000 miles per year in the Micra, but you are doing 24000+ in your 107. There is more to it than money when you do that many miles and spend that much time in your car. You need something that is comfortable and can keep up with the traffic on the motorways.

You absolutely need something like a 1.8 TDI (or bigger) diesel with at least regular aircon and a respectable sound system when spending over 2 hours per day in your car!
 
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I love the 107, Aygo and c1 and if I stick with my current commute and turn down my job offer I may get one myself.

That said 100 miles a day is a fair bit and if it includes a fair chunk of motorway then I'd want something a little bigger and with cruise control and air con. While it will cost you more something like a 1.6tdci Focus Ghia might fit the bill?
 
I do too, simple inside with a surprising amount of room for the size of car, nice little soundtrack and they beg to be ragged everywhere. Decent gearchange, decent steering, ok they really, really arent fast but dont need to be. Everything about them is simple. As a primarily town car or just for a cheap to own cheap to run motor what's not to like? (Not for 100 mile days for me still mind)
 
Howard said:
Do you mind if I ask why?

Even as far as small cars go, IMO they are utterly **** in every single respect
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Rodenal has basically summed it up but for something to get you from a to b without costing you a fortune they do the essentials well. Yes they are basic but everything that is there works well and there aren't any annoyances that I've found in my limited experience of them.

In fact I can't think of anything, given the type of car, that I would describe as ****
 
I guess I just didn't think much of the handling, gearchange, steering or build quality. Nothing sets them apart from other cars in their class.
 
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