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which small car to buy

Personally, Honda Jazz gets my vote. With back seats down, you have one of the biggest boot spaces of any car.

Pretty strong engines from both the 1.2 and 1.4's and the gearbox is a dream to use. Not to mention the reliablity. As proven by the JD Power Surveys which the Jazz tops.
 
Have a good look at the Kia, i'd always looked down my nose at cheap end motors until my daughter brought a Kia Ceed, had a go in it and was impressed. Long story short, I brought a Kia pro- Ceed (3 door hatchback) a year ago, 40 mph, 7year warranty, plenty of room for my clubs, reliable, reasonable level of comfort I'm very happy with it. There's an awful lot of badge snobbery out there, just ask the knockers how long their Ford,Fiat,citron etc is guranteed for, non of em will say 7 years, and the warrantry is transferable.
 
We actually want a small car though no point having anything bigger. We have citroen picasso at the moment but we just rattle around in it only the front seats are ever used,besides our days of coast to coast trips are behind us.
 
We actually want a small car though no point having anything bigger.
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How much are you looking to spend? Tops?
I have just literally (yesterday) done a deal with a lady buying a Peugeot 307CC from me. She purchased a Chevrolet "Spark" earlier this year brand new, only done 2,800 miles but wishes she had bought a cabriolet.
Got to be honest, I'd never heard of a Chevrolet Spark but was taken with it as soon as I saw it. Funky little thing.
Metallic Black, got everything on it (it's the 1200 LS+ model) five door, £30.00 road tax a year and is literally 5 months old (registered 28th May). It's as clean as the day it left the showroom.
 
We actually want a small car though no point having anything bigger.
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How much are you looking to spend? Tops?
I have just literally (yesterday) done a deal with a lady buying a Peugeot 307CC from me. She purchased a Chevrolet "Spark" earlier this year brand new, only done 2,800 miles but wishes she had bought a cabriolet.
Got to be honest, I'd never heard of a Chevrolet Spark but was taken with it as soon as I saw it. Funky little thing.
Metallic Black, got everything on it (it's the 1200 LS+ model) five door, £30.00 road tax a year and is literally 5 months old (registered 28th May). It's as clean as the day it left the showroom.
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Mods move to the For Sale Forum or bin it as there are no photos :D :D
 
We actually want a small car though no point having anything bigger.
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How much are you looking to spend? Tops?
I have just literally (yesterday) done a deal with a lady buying a Peugeot 307CC from me. She purchased a Chevrolet "Spark" earlier this year brand new, only done 2,800 miles but wishes she had bought a cabriolet.
Got to be honest, I'd never heard of a Chevrolet Spark but was taken with it as soon as I saw it. Funky little thing.
Metallic Black, got everything on it (it's the 1200 LS+ model) five door, £30.00 road tax a year and is literally 5 months old (registered 28th May). It's as clean as the day it left the showroom.
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Sounds so plausible, if you didn't know the source !





:D :D :D
 
We actually want a small car though no point having anything bigger.
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How much are you looking to spend? Tops?
I have just literally (yesterday) done a deal with a lady buying a Peugeot 307CC from me. She purchased a Chevrolet "Spark" earlier this year brand new, only done 2,800 miles but wishes she had bought a cabriolet.
Got to be honest, I'd never heard of a Chevrolet Spark but was taken with it as soon as I saw it. Funky little thing.
Metallic Black, got everything on it (it's the 1200 LS+ model) five door, £30.00 road tax a year and is literally 5 months old (registered 28th May). It's as clean as the day it left the showroom.
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Sounds so plausible, if you didn't know the source !

:D :D :D
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just the one careful lady driver, only used it for the shopping . . . .
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I have a skoda fabia VRS, Its a little car, 1.9 Diesel engine(PD130 golf gti engine), 130BHP and bags of torque. Costs £112 quid a year to tax and can do 70MPG on motorway runs in 6th gear. It has enough room in the boot for clubs, 5 doors and lots of cubby holes, storage and seat combinations to play about with. Only group 9 insurance too.

On the other hand my mrs is just about to sell her 57 plate VW POLO with 29,000 on the clock so if you have 5k to part with you could always inbox me for more info. :D
 
Just bought my wife a Fiat 500 Abarth. She loves it and I have to say it goes great.
 
I have a skoda fabia VRS, Its a little car, 1.9 Diesel engine(PD130 golf gti engine), 130BHP and bags of torque. Costs £112 quid a year to tax and can do 70MPG on motorway runs in 6th gear. It has enough room in the boot for clubs, 5 doors and lots of cubby holes, storage and seat combinations to play about with. Only group 9 insurance too.

On the other hand my mrs is just about to sell her 57 plate VW POLO with 29,000 on the clock so if you have 5k to part with you could always inbox me for more info. :D
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Apart from Tony's mrs bit, I concur! I will throw the Skoda Fabia Vrs into the ring as well. Such a fun little car and kicks mads Mini Coopers ass round the track!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqEXiOgUuZ0



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUHjV2U3ipA&feature=related
 
I'm not paying more than 7k and I've seen the chevvy spark and yeah I'm quiete taken with it, a bit bigger than the c1 more room for the bats.We don't want a speedster or owt flash just a new a-b'er will do us nowadays.
 
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