It's May 1992, you have £2.5k to buy a diesel car.....

[Peter C]

I would take the Sierra but you knew that already.

[fatharris]

CX please, 505 as a runner up!

[SiC]

£2500 is £5354.10 in today's money 

[Zelandeth]

As a car I'd actually have to live with, I'll take the 505 please.

[Soundwave]

Lancer, then I'd put it in dry storage until the mid 2010s and win every FOTU ever.

[goosey]

The 505 

[captain_70s]

I deliberated between all the Peugeots but a 505 estate has to be all the car you'd ever need?

[MrBig]

Flitted several times between 505, Sierra, Golf II and Audi 80, but I think I would go for the CX.

[Stinkwheel]

CX or Visa, having owned both in diesel flavour I'd go there again quite happily, as long as they were the miles and condition they would have been in '92 as well

[Dobloseven]

Definitely 505 Family Estate for me.In fact we had a 504 Family,but a petrol auto at the time.

[Popsicle]

Audi 80 or 505 estate for me please.

I ran a 305 van in the late 80's and it never let me down, but my god it was very noisy and rough, but then again all diesels were back then.

[grogee]

205 if I have to arrive, CX if I don't. 

Absolute misery from Ford and Vauxhall there, the French were way ahead. 

[sierraman]

I’d go for the 2.3 Sierra and vibrate myself to death. If not then the 505 then if that was no go then I’d go Ken Barlow and have the Cavalier 1.6 diesel. 

[Urko]

At around that time I was working for a firm that insisted we take company pool cars if we had to go anywhere on business.  One such was a Sierra diesel.  I liked it, it was a steady old bus with a decent radio etc.

The fleet admin woman loved me as I was the only one who'd take it without complaining.

[Urko]

37 minutes ago, grogee said:

205 if I have to arrive, CX if I don't. 

Absolute misery from Ford and Vauxhall there, the French were way ahead. 

Sierra had the Peugeot engine.

[Stinkwheel]

38 minutes ago, grogee said:

205 if I have to arrive, CX if I don't. 

Absolute misery from Ford and Vauxhall there, the French were way ahead. 

How very dare yuo sir, a CX diesel will get you anywhere (mostly)

[GeordieInExile]

I wonder if I could have a CX *and* a 205 for that budget...

[vinyljunky]

The 505 was hard work for the DIY mechanic? I didn’t realise I’d have blundered into that thinking otherwise very happily before further gilding my muppet status

[Metal Guru]

At the time I had a Sierra  but the 1.8TD and my girlfriend ( now wife) had a Golf 1.6 diesel. Can’t say I liked either. A few people I knew had Peugeots and they seemed to have much better performance.

[Bren]

The cav. Have a soft spot for these and back in the day these were great on fuel.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Passat.  Yes, I'm highly unusual.

[wuvvum]

CX for me, as the only one on the list (in turbo form at least) likely to be able to get out of its own way.  (Although a diesel Visa or 205 is reasonably nippy at town speeds, somewhat less so on the motorway though.)

[Rightnider]

If it was 1992 I’d have to go for the CX.  Now I want the Escort. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Thats easy, Peugeot 505.

But I can't understand why diy should be difficult on the 505? As it is a large rwd barge with a simple diesel engine.

[grogee]

1 hour ago, Urko said:

Sierra had the Peugeot engine.

They let them have their shitty old one! 

[grogee]

1 hour ago, vinyljunky said:

The 505 was hard work for the DIY mechanic? I didn’t realise I’d have blundered into that thinking otherwise very happily before further gilding my muppet status

Wow. I can't imagine many simpler cars. They thrive(d) in third world because of their simplicity

[grogee]

3 hours ago, SiC said:

£2500 is £5354.10 in today's money 

Don't be ridiculous. If that were true it'd be 2024

[2flags]

As long as I can have the estate version, I'll take the CX please. 

[Westbay]

Peugeot 505, Audi 80 ...please

[artdjones]

Just don't get the Passat. I had two back in the  90s and that information about cylinder head problems is very true. And when the head gasket went it usually took the piston rings with it.

Any of the Citroens or Peugeots for me.