Spec me something slightly interesting for ~£1.5k
- Thread starter Haggisman
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Man of Honour
Disagree! 2 normal people and 2 with very short legs maybe.
http://www.danmcardle.com/supra/big/BackSeat1.jpg
Soldato
306 GTi would get my vote. I loved that car.
Associate
Almera gti. Sr20, not many around, cheap to insure, reliable and fun.
Soldato
Yea, my brother has a Supra, he is 6' tall and the drivers seat is pretty much touching the rear seats.
An Integra DC2 will seat 4, though rear headroom isn't great which can be a pain in the neck on longer journeys, an Si can be found in budget.
Its more spacious than it looks, ive had two 6ft blokes in the back of mine with a 5'6" girl in the passenger seat. The MKiii is actually a 5 seater and ive had 5 in it a few times but then it is cramped.
A written off example perhaps.
He said an Si not a Type-R, you can get a DC2 Integra Si for ~1.5k easy.
Rules all? How? It's not even the best hot hatch for the money since the 172 got in the similar price bracket, and even then the xsara vts was better value and I hear handles even better.
Also not buying the age vote when the gti6 is what, 14 years old. Some of the stuff in this thread is older but I just don't think the gti is modern enough to actually warrant choosing one over better speced, faster, more interesting cars on age basis alone. And that's not to mention that something like the vr4 is of a similar age but has performance to blow a gti6 into tbe middle of next month.
As a cheap hot hatch you can do so much worse, but the most interesting car for 1500? Not even close.
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Thanks for all the suggestions guys - got a few to get me looking - Clio definitely looks interesting =)
Just need to wait for this to get sorted with the insurance now!
Just need to wait for this to get sorted with the insurance now!
I am not denying that it is not a good hot hatch, just questioning the use of the term "Rules all" in a thread where it is competing with cars from higher classes (regardless of their older ages) is a bit lol, Especially when its not even the best hot hatch in the price point!
Doesn't the VR4 have 113ps over the GTi-6?
)And an extra ~330kg as well. They are totally different cars though, not really comparable.
Care you find a few examples of an Integra for 1.5k? I was quite surprised they had fallen this low, so had a look on eBay, PH Classified and Autotrader. There is one car on PH that sounds genuine. though it was in Scotland. There is also a single Integra that meets the budget on Autotrader and it's a Type R for £1500. Assuming the dealer is legitimate, a Type R for that money will be a rolling scrap heap. Therefore I have to conclude it's not actually "easy" to find any remotely decent Integra for £1.5k.
£1.5k Integra Si's do come up, not that often but that's more due to the rarity of the car than the value, you have to remember that without its Type-R trim an Integra is basically in the same league as a Civic coupé of the same era and they go for ~£500.
I never said the GTi-6 and the VR-4 were comparable, the VR-4 is better in pretty much every way imaginable (expect mpg lol) but somebody suggested the GTi-6 to a guy looking at VR-4's so it was worth pointing out the performance gap.
They don't though; the Integra Si is equivalent to the Civic VTi, and even quite tatty examples tend to fetch very good money, especially the coupe.
Soldato
This probably isn't a great suggestion at this point as running costs are high and repairs can be expensive but you can get a Turbo 2000 Impreza for around £1500 now, the prices have dropped greatly in the last 18 months. Here's one example: (the rear lights are vile but can be changed cheaply.) http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif.../turbo/postcode/wr141aw/radius/1501?logcode=p