Toyota Aygo

In need of a new car and the Aygo seems quite apealing. Cheap to run and Japanese so should be good on build quality and reliability.

Just wondering if anyone has experience on getting a bike or two in the back. Easy/ok with a of fiddling/impossible?

Have driven one, good fun. Very small glass boot hatch thing, could be a struggle.

Citroen and peugot are the same car, fantastic little car, with plenty of room inside, glass tail gate so you cant hang a bike off it, roof rack or tow bar rack are better options.

Had one for a weekend free off Toyota, almost bought it till they told me how much they cost,

Girlfriend has one, horrible thing.
Engine is really noisy and has no umph, useless gutless thing.
Hers is an auto. Leave aside that I hate autos anyway, this one is particularly bad.
It feels really unstable, especially when passing HGVs etc, or on bridges on windy days.
It feels cheap and nasty, one can see where they have cut corners, lots of little things like no lid on the glove box and the interior light will only come on for the driver’s door. Endless list here. I don’t mind basic, I loved my old Landy, but the Aygo just feels nasty. Cheap plastics too.
It has the most uncomfortable seats I have sat on in a car. Journey of 30 mins is about the most I can stand.
Only broken three times in 5,000 miles. Fuel pipe came loose from the tank and gear lever housing also came loose. Now there is a mystery ailment in the front suspension somewhere
Boot is useless, but to be fair that would be the same for any car that size. Although it doesn’t open properly (more corner cutting) which doesn’t help. The glass screen leaves a very small aperture and looks very fragile.

However much you are thinking of spending (and they are not cheap by any means) you can get a slightly older Golf that will be in a different league.

I’ve had a Citroen C1 for 5 years and not even had to change a bulb or anything. As a cheap, small car it’s great it’s fun to drive and I really like the engine (petrol). I’ve always liked basic little cars, but not everyone does. It’s very roomy in the front, but not ideal for transporting bikes. I’ve got a roof rack for mine which is fine. You can get abike in the back, but I have to remove both wheels and the seat post on my bike to get it in. Cheap to run too.

We’ve had one as a second car for nearly 5 years. It’s now done 38k miles but did 30k miles in it’s first year. We’ve not had any problems at all. Does 50+ mpg, £20 year road tax and insurance about £150 a year fully comp. They are city cars but not too bad on motorways. It’ll quite happily cruse at 80 on M62 between Leeds and Manchester, I was using it in the bad weather during December as rwd Mercedes wasn’t fun in the snow!

Not the cheapest car out there but holds onto it’s value well. In a world where you can spend £40k+ on a specc’d up VW Golf the “peoples cars!” it shows cars are getting expensive now.

Avoid the diesel and auto models. I think Andrewh is been rather unfair, you’re forgetting what the car is designed for, cheap city use! Spend more and buy an Audi A1 if you want a small well built city car, and certainly paid for it.

Great little car but you wont get bikes in it and i would expect it to be dreadful with bikes on the roof, because you’d get blown around in the wind and have trouble getting any speed out of it at all. I’d get something a little bit bigger that you can actually get bikes inside personally (Yaris? I used to get 2 bikes in a punto and that was a good little car FWIW)

You’re probably better off with a Fiat Panda if you want a small car. It can actually take four adults and has a much bigger boot than the Aygo. It has a lot more space when the back seats are folded down as well so with the wheels off you should be able to get a couple of bikes in there. Similar fuel efficiency and just as easy to live with and park etc.

As someone has mentioned the peugeot and citroen are the same car, all built in the same factory and they are cheaper so why not get one of those?

I’ve had 3 bikes, wheels out, and cycling gear in an Aygo with the seats down!

I’ve had 2 bikes in the midget so if you cant get one in the aygo theres something wrong!

The reason you get an Aygo as opposed to a C1 or 107 is that the Aygo will hold it’s value better.

I wanted a Panda, but wife prefered the Aygo, she has to drive it every day so it was her choice.

I think it’s really good. Nice to drive, nippy and comfortable. It’s bliss compared to my Mondeo if needing to park it anywhere or drive in town and we’ve done 60 mile round day trips in it, four of us, with walking boots and a couple of rucksacks in the boot no problem.

They do Nick but not sufficiently to offset the higher initial outlay of the Toyota.

Great little cars.
Basic interior, with no glove box and interior light a bit annoying. other than that, cheap to run, cheap to tax etc. great little 3 cylinder petrol engine.
Had a large Spesh hardtail plus a full sus in, seats fold down flat so surprisingly roomy.

Yaris?

+1

We had an 02 plate 1.4 diesel for years as second car for years.
Really quite good all-round and sliding back seat made boot reasonable (but still not big)
Having run a Picasso instead for a couple of years now and really been quite underwelmed, we’re again on the lookout for another Yaris diesel.

OP- I remember reading recently that Citreon were offering a special deal on C1’s – something close to 5k NEW.

I had an Aygo. Drove it from Manchester to southern Germany and back on NY’s one year. On the same tyres as well.

Over the worst weather this winter I hired a Pug107 after I had successfully rejected a Toyota Yaris (design fault on their gearboxes that they tell you to ‘accept’) anyway it is nippy- feels nippy for a start. Regarding the comment above- yes an auto with it really would kill any speed. Binners- commented on it once when I gave him a lift.

It handbrake turned really well on snowy/icy junctions 😀

Its cheeky- love the start up noise and thrum. The gearing is great- you can do serious speed in 2nd and third plus if you rev the knackers off of it it sounds like a beast of an engine/note 😆

I managed to get a puschair in the boot (babyjogger), two other adults and a childseat no issues.

One important point – its very stable at speed on the motorway compared to a panda IMO.

I’ve been in one, and it was VERY basic. Of course, they are very cheap too, but for my money there are many better basic cars around. I’d take a 3 year old Fiesta/Ibiza/Polo etc over a new Aygo any day of the week. Or even a 10 year old one, for that matter.

Aygo does look a bit small for bikes.

We had a Nissan Micra for 3 years (the model just before the new, slightly odd looking one). It might not be trendy, but it was totally faultless for the whole time, did the best part of 50mpg, could easily get a bike in the back with the front wheel off and back seats folded, and I also had a halfords rack for the back. Nippy enough around town and reasonably comfortable, although slightly noisy engine at *cough* 80mph *cough*.

Yaris.. blah blah… design fault on their gearboxes that they tell you to ‘accept’.. (edits out Clarksonspeak)

Yeah? Wassatden?

1st to 2nd gearshift. Its a slight notch/kickback on shifting. Fine the other way but definitely there from 1st to 2nd. Its present from cold, especially cold days for say the first 30mins-1hr depending on how its driven.

Alot of the Yaris’s’ were affected however I was told this was a feature. A Mechanic admitted to me otherwise on a testdrive on the fault.

Even without that admission I would have had an independent inspection to follow to prove them wrong.

Depends what you are looking for in a car. Part of buying a car is emotive. You are looking for certains traits (and ‘looks’ of course).

You can buy a 2k Beemer way better than any Aygo/old Fiesta however new C1/Aygo’s come with 3 or 5yr warranties along with fuel economy, cheap running costs and backup.

On the bike-fitting front. how many times a week do you use your car to carry your bike? Once? Bike rack. 🙂

Never noticed any problem (or features) with the gearbox on the wife’s Yaris. Must’ve been lucky.

We got ours to replace an aging Pug 406 Est, that was doing less than 30mpg and bits kept falling off. Plus it was going to cost a fortune to tax, MOT and service.

The Aygo is almost twice as economical, almost free tax, cheap servicing, warrenty, etc, basically it’s a free car even when you take the finance into account.

You can buy a 2k Beemer way better than any Aygo/old Fiesta however new C1/Aygo’s come with 3 or 5yr warranties along with fuel economy, cheap running costs and backup.

Warranty aside, you can get cheap running and good (or better, 50mpg’s nothing to shout about at all, especially in a car that dinky) fuel economy and a far far better car even if you go up one size to Fiesta/Yaris etc. I would not consider a warranty on such a simple car to be worth the disadvantages. Even the Micra I drove was miles better as a city car and just about as small.

I wouldn’t get one.

Dezb, From whatcar

synchromesh problems on the gearbox appear to be common

I ‘think’ 07-09 on certain engines (1.3). ‘think’ as in I did research to back my case up but never had to present it in the end.

I see the C1/Aygo as classless. I’ve always seen Micra’s as driven by people who are scary/can’t drive 😆

We have an 06 Yaris, small petrol engine, feels so much better than the Aygo. The Aygo felt cheap in side and doesn’t feel like a Toyota normally does. I drove an Aygo recently and it was to be honest, rubbish, shame really. Whilst talking with a dealer a while back, he pointed out that the Aygo isn’t really a Toyota, it’s just badged as one. I couldn’t agree more.

I’d go for a Yaris 5 door or the Fiat Panda.

Being a Toyota isn’t a badge of honour anymore though.

Was it ever!?