What estate car?

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

New baby. Own a BMW 1 series but too small now. Looking for an estate car for about £15k. So far have liked the 3 series estate but as I liked the old Beamer I may be missing better value options. So, big should out to all the dads who need to fill their cars full of tulip.

I have a friend who recently bought an A4 Quattro - I am no fan of Audis but maybe worth some consideration?

[Old Hack]

New baby. Own a BMW 1 series but too small now. Looking for an estate car for about £15k. So far have liked the 3 series estate but as I liked the old Beamer I may be missing better value options. So, big should out to all the dads who need to fill their cars full of tulip.

£15k see's you in a 3 - 3.5 yo E220cdi estate, and that is, literally, all the car you will ever need. Ever.

[DimPrawn]

Q7 or Touareg.

Plenty of space, 4x4 for the global warming winter/spring/summer/autumn snow and ice. Nice and comfortable and luxurious, look down on the peasants below.

[bobspud]

I would make the following points.

1) Whatever you buy your wife with fill it with enough crap to go to the moon so bigger is not always better.
2) Your child _will_ puke in this car so don't get too precious about its badge. Soon it will stick of nappies and baby sick. (for this reason never buy a car with perforated leather seats!!!)
3) the passat/A4/Octavier class look big but when you have then fitted a baby seat in the back the space seems to vanish so if you want an Audi think about the A6 as the minimum.

I owned a 95 Aero estate from new it lasted 8 years, was treated very badly indeed and never stood me a single penny other than servicing. Its final milage when I decided to get rid of it rather than fix what I had caused, was 140k (had I been nicer to the car I know it would have made well over the 200k mark)

[gingerjedi]

Q7 or Touareg.

Plenty of space, 4x4 for the global warming winter/spring/summer/autumn snow and ice. Nice and comfortable and luxurious, look down on the peasants below.

You have to get the V10 though... unless you want Yaris drivers leaving you for dead at the traffic lights.

[NotAllThere]

I have a Volvo XC70. It's unusual to not have enough room to fit stuff in.

[DimPrawn]

You have to get the V10 though... unless you want Yaris drivers leaving you for dead at the traffic lights.

Yes, the Toerag is a tad heavy.

The 4.2 V8 Tdi is a better engine than the old V10.

0-60 in 5.8 sec and 150 mph top speed give an idea how powerful the 4.2 V8 tdi engine is.

[Lockhouse]

Touareg

[bobspud]

You have to get the V10 though... unless you want Yaris drivers leaving you for dead at the traffic lights.

^ This ^ + the seats in the back of a q7 are tulip unless you are a family of midgets...

[Mich the Tester]

0-60 in 5.8 sec and 150 mph top speed give an idea how overweight a car wth a 4.2 V8 tdi engine is.

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