whats a good, reliable and cheap to insurance car to buy for this amount? im looking at Ford focus... what do you think of them?
2006-12-19 22:36:04 · 12 answers · asked by Littleme 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Buying & Selling
peugeot 106...cheap to run reliable, and cheap insurance...the wife has had one for 6 years..awesome car.
2006-12-19 22:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by intruder3906 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I Had a ford focus as a first car!. It was beautiful until it was wrote off by a BMW. Yeah it was nice!. The impact of the two cars was about twenty MPH and my engine was resting in the window my door had to be prised open be a truncheon, Lucky for me the police was behind. Sorry i didn't tell you how it happened i was pulling up to a set of traffic lights as he came through the wrong side as he swerved to miss another car. My advice is have a look at the less popular makes of car. I Bought a Deawoo with a lot bigger engine and it was just as cheap to insure. Insurance company's look for
How desirable a car is to steal?(more popular harder to trace)
Where it will be kept?(on the drive or in a garage)
The performance of the car?(I.e don't go for a sporty number sxi and that sought of thing)
The type of people that the car is aimed at?(e.g Boy races)
Sometimes it pays to think outside the box. If you want cheap insurance stay away from these makes Ford,Valhalla, V.W,Nissan,Citroen,Peugeot, are some examples. good look.
2006-12-19 22:59:39 · answer #2 · answered by Gilly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i would recommend a focus for anybodies first car. if you have the patience to wait and look around you should get a real bargain this time of year. try and avoid the 1.4ltr engine as they are a bit weedy and lack in performance. a 1.6 is cheap enough to insure and pretty reliable. £3500 is allot of cash to spend on a car that is unreliable and dear to run
2006-12-21 08:06:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
take all your money, arrange it neatley and set it on fire... well it cuts out the middleman, IE the ford dealer. they are pieces of junk..with so much added rust worm itll fall apart before your very eyes... im not joking, we specialise in bodywork... thats rust repairs to you. good engines, but absolute crap bodywork.
pick someone who lost a war recently... secondhand german/swedish engineering is always going to. last longer and perform better than anything out of fords catalogue.
with your cash, i suggest you look to AUDI, (A4-A6) or the volvo range... even mercedes... they are a lot cheaper than you think, and would you rather have a second hand ford, or a second hand mercedes... a C220E merc (diesel) around 2 grand... with a full merc service history.... oh, and 45+ to the gallon, or the A6 Audi... their diesels do around 60mpg... and 350'000 miles arent uncommon on any of these cars... oh, and theyre group 12 insurance...
good luck
2006-12-19 22:47:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Toyotas are utterly reliable. You could get a fairly new corolla for that money, not the best looking cars but they are so easy to drive cheap to run and reliable it would be daft not to have a look.
2006-12-19 22:52:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have had good reports from customers on there reliability and they are generally liked which is a good sign
2006-12-20 02:49:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would recomend a vw passat tdi from 1998 upwards, they are very comfy, reliable and also very economical to run, ie not hard on fuel
2006-12-20 06:10:37 · answer #7 · answered by D McC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go and buy a car and stop annoying us
2006-12-19 22:38:24 · answer #8 · answered by Ivan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Seat Ibiza is a nice car and realiable and cheap on parts!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-19 22:45:45 · answer #9 · answered by Very Sexy Vixen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try a seat good on fuel and cheap insurance
2006-12-19 22:44:13 · answer #10 · answered by johnny boy rebel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋