Recommend me.....

Hootsmon

a car

Don't know shit about cars but what i do know is Hooters and I are desperately needing a new one before the years end

Up until now we have had a hair dryer of a car year in and year out same car Vauxhall corsa 1.2

Now teh wife is lookin' for some more power and acceleration....aren't we all?

She does not want a MONSTER of a car and we have an eye on petrol consumption....keeping with the Vauxhall corsa,what's a good step up or two up in power for her?

Thanks men

RaymondLin

Considering what you have now and that long I don’t see you care for the badge or looking for really cutting edge performance.  If you have a hatchback then I guess you want to stick to the same and don’t want to spend £20k

So I’ll look at these used.

Ford Fiesta/Focus ST.
Seat Leon FR.
Volvo C30 T5 (if you can stomach 15-20mpg round town, this applies to the Focus ST too with the 5 pot engine)
Toyota Auris
Honda Civic

ESBlonde

Skoda fabia. Bit bigger and a whole heap more reliable. Not to mention more refined. German design and European made to a tried and trusted recipe.

Hootsmon

is 1.5 much of a jump in the Vauxhall range from the 1.2?

is that still in the hair dryer range of cars then @1.5?

RaymondLin

Skoda Fabia VRS would be like a rocket compare to the Corsa.

My C30 T5 feels much more powerful than my old Yaris SR which had a 1.8L engine.

As for 1.5 vs 1.2, depends on the car and gearing.  Size and weight and whether it’s turbo or NA or Supercharged.

A Mini Cooper would be fun but cheap (old) ones are expensive to run compare to a Corsa being made by BMW.

starwarsnosebleed

I believe @Emp_Fab is the man to ask about motors.

exocet

Seat Leon 1.4 TSI

Lovely VAG Turbo engine - plenty of oomph but can still deliver 50+ MPG without too much effort.

I bought mine 3 years ago for £10k - it was 2 years old then.

Not sure what mines worth now but I doubt its more than £3.5k, reckon it'll go on for another 5 years.

Fishboy7

I bought a new Mazda 3 for the Mrs last year.  I think it''s a 2 litre, it drives really nice, is pretty cheap to run and comes with a lot of extras for the money.  (Leather, heated seats and steering wheel, heads up display etc ,..... )  . 

 

thumpingrug

Citroen DS3.  Very nice car, handles really well.  1.2 or 1.4 engine I think but its goes nicely.

sev112

Ford Focus or Skoda, but Skodas have got expensive recently
both 9 months old would be good price,  

HAL9000

Honda Civic. Roomy, plenty of boot space, reasonably quick, and sips fuel.

Hootsmon

Would a corsa 1.4 be OK?

Hooters does all the drivin' and our current 1.2 is a bit weak........would this feel anymore powerful at all?

RaymondLin

Hootsmon said:

Would a corsa 1.4 be OK?

Hooters does all the drivin' and our current 1.2 is a bit weak........would this feel anymore powerful at all?

Not by much, what does the spec sheet say? It will tell you the 0-60 on auto trader.

Hootsmon

Lookin' for a decent 2018 more powerful car than the bloody corsa she has.....I can't get the daft bitch to consider anything other than a bloody corsa range...."i'm drivin' it!"

got about 8k moneys

Paul_C

Something electric?  they generally have plenty of oomph.

RaymondLin

Hootsmon said:

Lookin' for a decent 2018 more powerful car than the bloody corsa she has.....I can't get the daft bitch to consider anything other than a bloody corsa range...."i'm drivin' it!"

got about 8k moneys

Why limit to 2018? Just to be within warranty?

Hootsmon

just to be as recent and as affordable i guess

Hootsmon

I just told her i finished reading an article and the corsa range came 22nd out of 25 for reliability......."It's me that's drivin' it!"

poopot

For £8k?

look at a golf tdi or Audi A3 tdi...

will last years, has bags of omph and great mpg...

just to add. My a3 has now done 150k + miles, sails through it mots and get about 52mpg on an urban cycle!!!!!

Hootsmon

^ reliable too PP?

rustneversleeps

Simples....................Kia or Hyundai