Reply to: Car Hunt Gone Serious

[swamp]

BMW 320D manual estate.

Very good engine, will hold its value better than Modeo or Passat. You'll have to stretch your budget or get finance, but added interest/cost will be compensated to some extent by the lower depreciation. Plus you get to drive a premium car.

[2uk]

BMW 330d or 320d, at least they will hold some value where as your Ford Mondeo, Alfa or Vectra are just going to lose money like no tomorrow.

You can even get a new shape A4 2.0t quattro http://www.cargiant.co.uk/Audi/details.asp?Id=366796

Thats old shape.
and I wanna squeeze the life from that cat.

[AtW]

I can get one for you

Are you pimping second hand cars now?

[moorfield]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ICE-CREAM-VAN-...QQcmdZViewItem

That certainly qualifies for business use surely ...

[Bumfluff]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ICE-CREAM-VAN-...QQcmdZViewItem

[moorfield]

JOOI - are you putting your new car through ltdco ?

[BoredBloke]

For 15.5k you can get a brand new Mondeo here

http://www.uk-car-discount.co.uk/use...&showspec=true

It's the Zetec one with the 140 bhp 2ltr Diesel. 16.5 gets you the Titanium one.

[Bumfluff]

BMW 330d or 320d, at least they will hold some value where as your Ford Mondeo, Alfa or Vectra are just going to lose money like no tomorrow.

You can even get a new shape A4 2.0t quattro http://www.cargiant.co.uk/Audi/details.asp?Id=366796

[DodgyAgent]

Pre-owned Skoda Superb Diesel(Preferably V6 Tiptronic)

I can get one for you

[scooby]

you could get a 3yr old audi A4 avant 1.9tdi for that money. it would return about 54mpg too...

[Sockpuppet]

Also look at Focus, the TDCi variants are seriously good to drive, especially with the Sport pack

I do love the TDCis though. They outpace the ST170s in real driving (i.e. 30-70) and are only 0.1 seconds slower from 0-62 and I still get 53mpg from mine and its done over 101k.

[Sockpuppet]

Any other sensible suggestions within a 15k budget. Need a proper slogger on the motorway and pretty comfy to drive

15k could get you a 55 plate V70 D5 geartronic with 30k on the clock.

[EternalOptimist]

I picked up a Hyundai matrix last night, perfect for motrway and camping.
Getting it ready for a drive to Italy in two weeks.

The salesman says to me, 'How would you like to pay then ?'
'Er, do you take money ?'
They had to get the manual out to find out how to sell a car that wasn't being financed

[Churchill]

Pre-owned Skoda Superb Diesel(Preferably V6 Tiptronic)

[malvolio]

Well i have just been paid and took my last chunk of Dividends out of LTD account so the hunt for my new car is going to have to take a serious step up this weekend as i'm now having to pay for my own hire car. The Short list

Ford Modeo 2.0 TDCI (not sure about as it could never replace my old one)
Vauxhall Vectra 1.9 TDCI SRI
Alpha Romeo 159 Saloon / Estate
VW Passat

Any other sensible suggestions within a 15k budget. Need a proper slogger on the motorway and pretty comfy to drive

Mondeo - now a much better car than even a Bimmer 3 series according to the press - and rather more rare...
Vectra - bit of a dog, ISTR up for replacement soon.
Alfa - great drive but still flimsy
Passat - Golf with a boot. Get an Octavia vRS instead

Also look at Focus, the TDCi variants are seriously good to drive, especially with the Sport pack