Trying to decide "WHAT FIRST CAR"

paradigm · 7 Jul 2006 at 12:48

b1g-dav3 said:
Yeh but thats not the standered Grey.

No, icelandic grey is what I posted.
There isn't a "standard grey" there is a silver, and then a nasty two-tone special edition that was silver with gunmetal grey arches and lower halfs of the doors.

GT3 · 7 Jul 2006 at 12:49

Icelandic Grey and Marautius (navy) Blue are my favourite standard colours. Not common, nice and easy to clean. I wish they did a full gunmetal grey like the bottom half of the two-tone one.I can understand why people wouldn't like my yellow one but hey it stands out

paradigm · 7 Jul 2006 at 12:50

GT3 said:
I wish they did a full gunmetal grey like the bottom half of the two-tone one

100% agree, that would indeed own!

GT3 · 7 Jul 2006 at 12:55

paradigm said:
100% agree, that would indeed own!

They did but only on mk1's so I don't think you would be interested

Nice

agw_01 · 7 Jul 2006 at 12:56

Mk1 > Mk2

The Mk1's just look awesome, whereas the Mk2's look girly. Suits you perfectly then El doesn't it

There's a yellow VTR near to where I work which has black Wolfrace wheels with a silver lip. Looks very smart!

paradigm · 7 Jul 2006 at 12:57

GT3: See, give me a MK2 front end and that would own

The rear shot of that looks spot on (however rear-side view was always my fav. angle of the car!)

Andy, you can't talk about cars and styling i'm afraid, you own a shoebox.

GT3 · 7 Jul 2006 at 12:59

agw_01 said:
whereas the Mk2's look girly

There's a yellow VTR near to where I work which has black Wolfrace wheels with a silver lip. Looks very smart!

Agree, hopefully I'm making mine look a little less girly with some of those black headlights and I've just got the grill colour coded (left the slats black).

Shame those wolfrace wheels weigh a tonne and are poor quality. I'm on the lookout for some cheap superleggeras/speedlines to get refurbed in black with a polished lip

paradigm said:
The rear shot of that looks spot on (however rear-side view was always my fav. angle of the car!)

Dr House · 7 Jul 2006 at 13:04

My first card was a 1.25 fiesta- Excellent first car, reliable cheap to run and quite comfortable.
My second car was a MG Zr 105+ looked good, very conferrable seats good handling and good fuel affiance. The car was a pile of **** unreliable and expensive to keep running due to all the problems, ugly cheap interior.

agw_01 · 7 Jul 2006 at 13:05

paradigm said:
Andy, you can't talk about cars and styling i'm afraid, you own a shoebox.

So, if mine's a shoebox... what was your Saxo... a matchbox?

gord · 7 Jul 2006 at 13:37

Arnt Saxo's overly expensive on insurance though. I remember putting one in for mine when i was looking and it was £4K compared to the £1.5K i paid for my 1.6 GLX Polo

[TW]Fox · 7 Jul 2006 at 13:47

b1g-dav3 said:
I'm not really that bothered about the insurace but obviosly don't want to pay a stupid amout like £5000 thats why I have choosen these few as the insurace is no higher than £2500 which I don't believe to be that bad, for a nice car..

That would be ok if there were any nice cars in your list but I can see a little Fiesta, a Rover 200 with tat stuck on and different suspension and a Saxo

Personally, I'd have the Saxo although the Fiesta is the most suitable first car in that list.

DanTheMan · 7 Jul 2006 at 16:45

From spending many hours getting quotes online on these types of cars, I've found that a similar aged fiesta 1.25 is only around £200 less than a 1.6 saxo vtr in every single quote.

If it was my own choice i'd definately go for the saxo.

Smiley Man · 7 Jul 2006 at 17:18

god how i want a VTS

but thats irrelevant

go for the VTR - dont have to rag it everywhere cos the engine is nice and tourquey at low revs, but when you do

its pretty quick, doesnt sound too bad either

1.6 8v > 1.25 16v

Holly_Pinklady · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:10

I just bought a Fiesta as my 1st car, sounds very similar to the one you described. I'm really pleased with it, but i don't know much about the others so i can't really comment on them, but the fiesta's are good.

Insurance wise i was told that KAs are the cheapest but they are pretty ugly. (Apologies to anyone who has a KA)

Rain Man · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:46

i know what im getting for my first car

http://www.parkers.co.uk/pricing/us...47&model=993&plate=59&pay=false&buyorsell=buy

1.6i 16v. maybe not as small as the saxi but its cheaper to buy, cheaper to insure, handles like a car half its size and has a better engine

Smiley Man · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:49

Rain Man said:
i know what im getting for my first car

http://www.parkers.co.uk/pricing/us...47&model=993&plate=59&pay=false&buyorsell=buy

1.6i 16v. maybe not as small as the saxi but its cheaper to buy, cheaper to insure, handles like a car half its size and has a better engine

the 1.6 8v engine in the saxo is fantastic - dont knock it until you've tried one

the astra you've linked to is a fit slower than the saxo and has exactly the same power despite it being 16v :confused:

Rain Man · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:53

point taken, BUUTT id still take the astra due to the price tag and im 6ft 2 and would look better in the astra lol

paradigm · 7 Jul 2006 at 19:08

Rain Man said:
handles like a car half its size and has a better engine

No, it handles crap tbh, hated the astra mk4's I have driven. And it has a 16v engine, not a "better" engine.

Rain Man · 7 Jul 2006 at 19:58

ive already been corrected on the engine and he could probably pick up a astra sxi with uprated suspension for around the same price as the saxo

[TW]Fox · 7 Jul 2006 at 19:59

Rain Man said:
i know what im getting for my first car

http://www.parkers.co.uk/pricing/us...47&model=993&plate=59&pay=false&buyorsell=buy

1.6i 16v. maybe not as small as the saxi but its cheaper to buy, cheaper to insure, handles like a car half its size and has a better engine

Handles like a car half its size, are you taking the mick? The Astra handles like.... a middle of the road medium sized hatchback. It has no talent at all outside SRi trim level.

Handles like a car half its size indeed, ahahahahaha.