Soldato
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My wife kindly had her car written off last week. Luckily they accepted liability so its moving pretty quickly, accident management company have sorted her a corsa, which we have for 7 days after the cheque arrives, so we need to move quickly.
got 2-3k to spend. Spec is - not too big, HAS TO BE AUTO (auto only licence), needs to be 5 door really as we have our first child on the way, and it needs to be good on fuel as she drives 45-50 miles a day round trip.
Her last car was a micra which she liked, but she understands she needs something a little bigger (I hope), pending test drives...
Needing to be an auto limits choices somewhat, and budget wont cover a DSG I wouldn't have thought.. Which auto's are reliable/not too bad on juice?
Thoughts so far are...
Honda jazz 1.4 CVT-7 (? over auto box reliability, and a bit gutless?)
mk1 Focus auto (rubbish on fuel apparently)
merc A170 diesel (not the most reliable after a quick google?)
Theres a few pre-DSG VAG diesels (a3's/golf etc...) in budget, what are the boxes like?
Budget really doesn't seem to stretch that far with the auto criteria added.
What you got!?
got 2-3k to spend. Spec is - not too big, HAS TO BE AUTO (auto only licence), needs to be 5 door really as we have our first child on the way, and it needs to be good on fuel as she drives 45-50 miles a day round trip.
Her last car was a micra which she liked, but she understands she needs something a little bigger (I hope), pending test drives...
Needing to be an auto limits choices somewhat, and budget wont cover a DSG I wouldn't have thought.. Which auto's are reliable/not too bad on juice?
Thoughts so far are...
Honda jazz 1.4 CVT-7 (? over auto box reliability, and a bit gutless?)
mk1 Focus auto (rubbish on fuel apparently)
merc A170 diesel (not the most reliable after a quick google?)
Theres a few pre-DSG VAG diesels (a3's/golf etc...) in budget, what are the boxes like?
Budget really doesn't seem to stretch that far with the auto criteria added.
What you got!?
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