Currently – drives a fiat 500 diesel, 74k miles, in gc but 8 years old. She wants rid before it’s worth nothing and we have kids.
She drives about 150 miles a week. We also have a volvo estate.

Her car requirements are:
petrol
under 9K inc 3k from the fiat
future proof with regard to push chair
not a honda jizz or suv type car
easy to drive, poky and economical
4 doors preferred

Skoda Octavia Estate? Chicks car innit!

Boring but inevitable, Golf.

She is only small lol!! Octavia is far too big!
She like the Polo etc

A red one?

Fabia (estate) then..

Wimmin? Drive Minis or Beemer 1 series like nutters don’t they?

deffo not a bmw!!

Let her choose? It’s her car??

Rachel

4 door Ecoboost 125 Fiesta.

Link to Ebay

[EDIT] – oh, and if it is her car and she’s paying for it – what Rachel said.

[EDIT] [EDIT] eBay link to “a red one”

Ibiza 4 door hatchback. Or a Polo, it’s the same; both cracking cars.

Rachel – she asked for ideas?? She said a red one!! Neither of us are arsed about cars just looking for reliability and competitive price!!!!!

We’ve got a 12 plate Ibiza. The boot will only just take our baby buggy – I suspect a ‘stroller’ would go in a bit easier but we opted for a ‘travel system’ thingy. We specifically went for one of the smallest available was well, because at the time we both had small cars.

A friend of mine has a Fiesta – she can only get her baby buggy in by talking the parcel shelf out.

If a baby is a real possibility in the near future, I would be looking at something Focus/Golf sized or perhaps an Ibiza/Fabia estate.

I’d get a ford focus/ Astra / mazda 5

Big enough for a pram but not too big and not desirable enough to have a price premium

Oh, and if she’s only doing about 6k a year, petrol.

I can see a nice 1 litre focus eco boost in your future…

I have a Seat Mii Sport which is the same as a skoda citigo or VW up. It’s an excellent little car. 9/10 would by another one. Split seat fold for buggy + isofix for seat. Babies are only small after all.

poky

£8,995

Has isofix and a big boot

Yaris. Good big little cars. Bigger engined one if she wants “poky” (clearly Toyota don’t sell a lot of Yaris’s on that basis)

Polos are good cars and the new models are close in size to Mk1 Golf. “Poky” versions available.

Could look at Fabia or Ibiza

Fiesta 1.0 Ecoboost 100bhp
Lower insurance than the 125bhp

Something Focus-sized, we had a Fiesta when the kids were little and the boot isn’t really big enough for pushchairs and all the other kiddy-related crap you will accumulate.

I’d probably get a Focus myself, mainly for the heated windscreen.

Fiesta ST

Poky but not pokey.

Comes in red with hedgrow accents.

Just get an MX-5.

And some flowers.

Might be able to shove a pushchair in the back… Meh, world’s overpopulated anyway.

Seat mii is a great small car but the boot is small and you might struggle with pushchairs. The Skoda rapid fastback, has great boot space with out stepping up to a focus sized car

Fabia (estate) then

This.

Or, we have Ibiza Estate (“ST”), that is small and nippy with a boot nearly twice the size of a Focus….

We’re just kicking around changing it for a PCP Fabia Estate, Leon or Rapid Fastback, as we’ve got some silly cheap deals on offer over 4yrs….

Rachel – she asked for ideas?? She said a red one!! Neither of us are arsed about cars just looking for reliability and competitive price!!!!! [/I]

Honda Jazz.

It’ll never go wrong, and you can sell it one easy enough to a pensioner when you buy another 🙂

She wants rid before it’s worth nothing and we have kids.

What’s it currently worth, and tbh you’ve 9 months notice, you’ll have plenty of time.

I went as far as a test run in a Rapid Fastback, they look OK in a funny squashed together way (old Octavia with a new Polo) but IIRC the Fastback is really short – shorter than the saloon – and capacity isn’t great. And the guy was trying to sell a 1.2 as that would be all we’d need (how he worked that out I’ve no idea and I reckon he was wrong..)

I was impressed with the rapid, focus sized boot for polo prices

Focus 1.0 Ecoboost 125.

Decent push chair friendly boot. Goes well enough and easy to drive. It’s comfy on a long haul and good round town.

£9k would land you a nice 4 year old Titanium spec one with low mileage.

The 100ps version is ok but the extra perkiness of the 125 is worth the premium. We clocked up 2000km in a 100ps over a couple of weeks in a rented one. It’s just a bit noisier at motorway speeds and struggles a little when loaded to the gunwhales.

Easy to drive = automatic??
I was never a fan but I’m completely bowled over by the missus auto BMW. It’s an 8 speed ZF, changes are almost seamless and econony is exactly the same as the manual. It is effortless to drive whether on a busy motorway or in town.

Civic.

http://www.skoda.co.uk/why-skoda/driven-by-something-different/pages/default.aspx

Mrs Coolhandluke loves her (gopping) mini countryman.

To very fair, it’s cheap on diesel, road tax is peanuts and it drives lovely.

Kia Carens?
Considering you have kids etc you need something “tall”. We wish the SUV had been “invented” when we had ours, bad backs etc. This is something we realised when grandkids came along and we had a Touran 🙂
Berlingo
Roomster
Yeti
Altea
Doblo
Touran
Zafira

MrsT is not the tallest and had always had a fear of “large” cars until she had to use hire cars for work. After driving an XTrail and a Mondieo estate she changed her mind . Our first “big” car being the Touran followed by 2 Sorrentos :D. She has no intention of parting with the current one

Suzuki Swift.
Toyota Auris.

Get one with automatic gear. 😛