I’m considering replacing my 04 Fabia VRS with 31k miles on the clock. It’s the basic spec in red, I guess I could expect around £8k for it though I haven’t really looked into it, there’s no outstanding debt on it.
The reason I’m thinking of changing is that it’ll be 3 years old next March and I expect it’ll be easier to sell with a few months warranty left. Also my use pattern is changing significantly. I currently live 25 miles away from work, so do around 1000 miles a month just in commuting, around 18k a year. I’ll soon be moving to within walking distance of work so I’ll only be driving a very small amount during the week with most of my mileage coming from a small number of longer trips – maybe only 5,000 miles a year.
Still wanting to keep the costs down but fuel efficiency isn’t so critical any more, wouldn’t want to drop below 40mpg on a motorway run though!
I guess the priorities are cheaper to buy maybe a budget of £5k.
Low subsequent depreciation.
Motorway economy >40mpg.
Good build quality, Renaults and Citroens need not apply.
0-60 <9sec with half decent handling.
Pretty long service interval (in time rather than miles).
Reliable – really don’t want a £1000 repair bill 6 months down the line that would render the whole change pointless.
ABS and pretty decent crash protection.
No smaller than the Fabia.
It would be nice if the insurance wasn’t any more (Fabia is group 9).
Other than that I’m open to suggestions, so any ideas?
The reason I’m thinking of changing is that it’ll be 3 years old next March and I expect it’ll be easier to sell with a few months warranty left. Also my use pattern is changing significantly. I currently live 25 miles away from work, so do around 1000 miles a month just in commuting, around 18k a year. I’ll soon be moving to within walking distance of work so I’ll only be driving a very small amount during the week with most of my mileage coming from a small number of longer trips – maybe only 5,000 miles a year.
Still wanting to keep the costs down but fuel efficiency isn’t so critical any more, wouldn’t want to drop below 40mpg on a motorway run though!
I guess the priorities are cheaper to buy maybe a budget of £5k.
Low subsequent depreciation.
Motorway economy >40mpg.
Good build quality, Renaults and Citroens need not apply.
0-60 <9sec with half decent handling.
Pretty long service interval (in time rather than miles).
Reliable – really don’t want a £1000 repair bill 6 months down the line that would render the whole change pointless.
ABS and pretty decent crash protection.
No smaller than the Fabia.
It would be nice if the insurance wasn’t any more (Fabia is group 9).
Other than that I’m open to suggestions, so any ideas?
