Reply to: What estate car?

[milanbenes]

The thing is with the R Class, and with most 7 seaters, its one or the other 7 seats or boot space which puts me off, if I need more than 5 seats odds are you will also still need boot space too

that r class is fecking disgusting looks like some yank crap

GL class ok

G class ok

What about Mitsubishi Pajero/Shogun

Toyota Landscruiser

Milan.

[SimonMac]

The thing is with the R Class, and with most 7 seaters, its one or the other 7 seats or boot space which puts me off, if I need more than 5 seats odds are you will also still need boot space too

[bobspud]

Obsidian Black, with deep blue tints and AMG body kit. Wife seems to like it, not entirely my bag. 19" tyres a heartache when you (she) puncture one twice....

Wait till she dents a wheel in a pothole

[bobspud]

So given two kids (and a wife of course) I'm currently tempted to have two smaller cars rather than one bigger one as it is rare that we would go somewhere far enough to justify the need for a bigger car.
Discussion please?

It depends if you are the type that travels light or the muppet we see every bank holiday with the duvet stuffed into the back of the car so hard it looks like the air bags gone off

I have seen too many crash scenes on the m4 to risk putting everyone I love in a small tin can with a rubbish engine and crap brakes. Thats why our family car is the other end of the scale. But it does cost a lot to run. I always tended to lumber the wife with a large safe family car then drive a convertible or coupe of some sort for work when there is only me in the car most of the year.

Do you need two cars? If I lived in London again I wouldn't bother.

[milanbenes]

Passat estate shirley?

we have that one as well

2003 model 110hp

sorteeeeed

Milan.

[Mich the Tester]

Passat estate shirley?

The Passat really only has one drawback; I might fall asleep while driving it.

[DimPrawn]

Nissan Pathfinder

sorted

Milan.

Passat estate shirley?

[milanbenes]

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.

Nissan Pathfinder

sorted

Milan.

[bobspud]

Interesting analysis. Did you do that for dealer trad in or private sale? I'd have though FDSH would be worth a lot more when selling private.

Dealer trade ins always rip you off.

I found out the hard way. I do lots of miles and until I started work on our house, I was buying 2 new cars every 2.5 years. Always had full dealer history always got very base trade in figures (but then again I also made sure that I got a shed load off the incoming car so was never that bothered)
No one buys nice cars privately down here. I had my first SL on sale for 2 months before I gave in an took a trade in. full MBSH and took no more than £500 difference from what it would have been if it just had random history.

[Troll]

Get 2 small cars the same make, colour & year, fill in a SORN for one of them , clone the plates on the non SORN one and get 2 for the price of one motoring

HTH

[DimPrawn]

So given two kids (and a wife of course) I'm currently tempted to have two smaller cars rather than one bigger one as it is rare that we would go somewhere far enough to justify the need for a bigger car.
Discussion please?

You either need two cars or you don't.

[Old Hack]

So given two kids (and a wife of course) I'm currently tempted to have two smaller cars rather than one bigger one as it is rare that we would go somewhere far enough to justify the need for a bigger car.
Discussion please?

What about when you do.

[Troll]

So given two kids (and a wife of course) I'm currently tempted to have two smaller cars rather than one bigger one as it is rare that we would go somewhere far enough to justify the need for a bigger car.
Discussion please?

Double insurance, road tax, service costs

[yasockie]

So given two kids (and a wife of course) I'm currently tempted to have two smaller cars rather than one bigger one as it is rare that we would go somewhere far enough to justify the need for a bigger car.
Discussion please?

[Old Hack]

In black it looks like a hearse!

Obsidian Black, with deep blue tints and AMG body kit. Wife seems to like it, not entirely my bag. 19" tyres a heartache when you (she) puncture one twice....