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Following anuncharacteristicly long period of happy car owner ship (well for me) my vitar blew up today and is dead. I need a new car fast and cheap but I also want to drive something that is very me.

My most recent car was purple with yellow flames and I loved it, not just for the colour (although it was fab) but because it was good in bad weather and had enough space for all my stuff but I didnt feel like a mum missing 3 smallchildren. Any suggestions, I only have around 700 to play with but am quite good at getting prices knocked down.

I have owned
3 fiestas - good cars but not sure I want another one
Ford Puma - worst car ever
Hyundai accent - far to long didnt last
Ka - tend to rust to quickly and a bit light

Any suggestions?

What about one of these Masie?

For reliability and superb build quality I will never buy anything else other than a Mercedes. There are loads of 5-6 year old Mercs around for 10K or less.

Agreed, but the insurance on a Merc for a young girl like Masie would be a fortune. I say go for a VW Polo, good, solid and German!

Yup, yer right. Comp fer me is only ?468 and I tend to forget younger people will have to pay a premium on their yoof.
Polos' are good and solid. A young lady opposite me has had them for years and she swears by em.

You don't buy British Rodders ? Not very patriotic of you !

?700.00 will not buy you much at all.

belfast_birty wrote:

> ?700.00 will not buy you much at all.



Not so. There are bargains to be had if you know where to look and what to look out for! I recently purchased a 1995 Citroen C5 3.0 V6 Exclusive (sat nav, twin zone air con, electric everything, etc) for ?720. Inspected by AA who gave it a clean bill of health and with 85,000 on the clock and a full service history, it's less than half way through its life.

According to Parkers it should have been around the ?3500 - ?4000 mark so the question is... do I sell it and make a nice bit of profit, or do I keep what will be a nice car to drive for the next few years?

Why so cheap? Big cars are tumbling in price because of increased road taxes and petrol costs, but having owned a Peugeot 406 Coupe with the same 3.0 V6 engine I'm used to the running costs (about ?15.00 a week in petrol most weeks for a couple of commutes into central London at unsocial hours when a train service isn't an option). Secondly, in spite of all the standard kit, big Citroens are notoriously poor at holding their value, and many people just don't want to touch them because of an earlier reputation (in the 1970s & 80s mainly) for breaking down and being expensive to fix.

Overall the extra costs of running some of these bigger cars are more than compensated for by the low sale price.

Purple with yellow flames? !shocked!