Best car at being a car £500 - £1000?

[Zelandeth]

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This:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Y-Reg-Hyundai-Accent-1/143031087960?hash=item214d513358:g:81kAAOSw5-hb~msY:rk:1:pf:0

 

33K. Got to have a few years trouble free motoring in it

Fair enough suggestion actually. We had one as the garage loan car for three years, and even under that treatment it never missed a beat!

[1duck]

If i was being more sensible I'd probably try get honda hrv or a crv, my neighbour has one and it seems a really handy thing, him and his mates chipped in for it so they could all have a spare car for when their chod FTP.

How about a ford fusion? those always looked a handy shape, they are cheap because they are unpopular but i'd guess finding a giffer owned one would be easy, plus they share all their parts with the rest of the ford range so cheap bits if owt does go wrong?

[skoda_fan]

I've just bought an ageing Peugeot Partner for the price of a few beers. Because it was there. And because it might prove useful. In my head. Time will tell how useful it is in reality. I'm semi-consciously saving all my Skuds for posterity (even though I'm bound to flog them in the end), so I get paranoid if any of them get even slightly muddy. The Peugeot is a hack about which I have no such qualms. At least at present. Though being a shiter I'm bound to gradually fall in love with it.

[Eyersey1234]

I’ve loved the Focuses we’ve had, handling on them particularly the Mk1 is superb. Piece of piss to work on as well. Never understood why people rate them as dull then cite something like a BMW 318i as being tantamount to the reinvention of the wheel.

I love my Focus, bought for £490 a few weeks ago. Good to drive. Few jobs that need doing but for the age and price its to be expected.

[Eyersey1234]

If i was being more sensible I'd probably try get honda hrv or a crv, my neighbour has one and it seems a really handy thing, him and his mates chipped in for it so they could all have a spare car for when their chod FTP.

How about a ford fusion? those always looked a handy shape, they are cheap because they are unpopular but i'd guess finding a giffer owned one would be easy, plus they share all their parts with the rest of the ford range so cheap bits if owt does go wrong?

I like the Fusion, test drove one in 2006 when I got my Fiesta, sadly I couldn't afford one. I was considering one when I was looking for a car a few weeks ago but got the Focus instead.

[Snipes]

My girlfriend has a Fusion for hauling drumkits and it is a decent size internally relative to external. It's bigger inside than my C4.

[Marm Toastsmith]

I take it back about the Picasso... Just had a look at some pictures and actually I quite like them. Weird how with age cars can grow on you.

 

I just read this on Wikipedia:

 

"The Picasso name was licensed from the family of Pablo Picasso,^[6] which created significant international publicity at the time of the car's launch, as not all the Picasso family were happy with the association of the artist's name with a car, when his granddaughter Marina attempted to sue her uncle Claude in April 1999."

 

A shame BL were no longer in business, they could have counter-sued Marina for stealing the name of their popular saloon.

 

Actually, come to think of it, a 1300 Marina estate would be perfect. Or an Ital.

[jcr]

Seconded...the MK2 Accent, despite it having a look only it's design team could love is a very competent car...your best bet is the 1.3i as shown in the picture...they look "pure" whilst the other higher spec models look very tacky with their bargain basement different grilles and add-ons. I've owned two sub-£300 examples and had no regrets other than i wish i had them now...cheap to insure, roomy, relatively comfy, lovely to drive and great MPG. I wish it was still in production now

I really like the mk2