It depends entirely on the cars use and the budget for said car.
I jumped on my ED30 because it had xenons, cruise and satnav. I could have bought one without any of that, and retrofitted it all though. I'd probably not retrofit xenons though personally. But I could have lived with retrofitting cruise and satnav no problems.
My alhambra doesn't currently have cruise, but that should hopefully get retrofitted this weekend.
I guess essentials for me are cruise, and bluetooth. But the bluetooth requirement only extends as far as being reasonably easy to retrofit it. So the ability to swap headunit if it isn't standard.
On a newer car (= worth reasonable money, say £10k+), I probably wouldn't entertain not having xenons and cruise at a minimum. Satnav I can live without, depending on the car. But I would try to look explicitly for it to be there if I could. I just wouldn't discount an otherwise cracking car for not having it.
Gearbox, manual or auto I am easy. I'd prefer an auto most likely now, but then the cars I'd be interested in would likely have a reasonable auto box anyway.
As for performance. That depends entirely on the projected use profile. For the daily driver, I'd really want 40+ mpg averaged out with my driving profile. For a more fun car, I don't care if it does 15mpg, so long as it's worth it. That doesn't mean it has to do 0-60 in under 4 seconds, my P38 certainly didn't. But it was still worth that fuel economy for what it gave me. My 330i's / Golf 4mo's / R32's on the other hand, were not worth the 25-28 mpg, to me. My S4 (4.2 V8) was worth the 23mpg though. For a small to medium sized car, 300+ BHP seems about right for mid 20's average fuel economy.
I jumped on my ED30 because it had xenons, cruise and satnav. I could have bought one without any of that, and retrofitted it all though. I'd probably not retrofit xenons though personally. But I could have lived with retrofitting cruise and satnav no problems.
My alhambra doesn't currently have cruise, but that should hopefully get retrofitted this weekend.
I guess essentials for me are cruise, and bluetooth. But the bluetooth requirement only extends as far as being reasonably easy to retrofit it. So the ability to swap headunit if it isn't standard.
On a newer car (= worth reasonable money, say £10k+), I probably wouldn't entertain not having xenons and cruise at a minimum. Satnav I can live without, depending on the car. But I would try to look explicitly for it to be there if I could. I just wouldn't discount an otherwise cracking car for not having it.
Gearbox, manual or auto I am easy. I'd prefer an auto most likely now, but then the cars I'd be interested in would likely have a reasonable auto box anyway.
As for performance. That depends entirely on the projected use profile. For the daily driver, I'd really want 40+ mpg averaged out with my driving profile. For a more fun car, I don't care if it does 15mpg, so long as it's worth it. That doesn't mean it has to do 0-60 in under 4 seconds, my P38 certainly didn't. But it was still worth that fuel economy for what it gave me. My 330i's / Golf 4mo's / R32's on the other hand, were not worth the 25-28 mpg, to me. My S4 (4.2 V8) was worth the 23mpg though. For a small to medium sized car, 300+ BHP seems about right for mid 20's average fuel economy.
