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This all makes sense. Did they sell pug 407/508 estates in the UK in any great number? Surely they'll be cheap. I remember test driving a 508 and it was quite large inside and completely unremarkable. Seemed as good as any modern car.
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508 Yeah, decent size, quite practical load space and child entertaining plastics in the back. They depreciated hard though, and AFAIK no where near popular as the 405 and 406 were for fleets, so just not many around to choose from. Would prob get an older one under 5k as they are still depreciating hard.
Always fancied a Citroën c6, prob stoked by the potholes we have here and wanting my spine not to be impacted every time I go anywhere lol
BrickMan
A4 and octavia are smaller platform car (a3/vw caddy van platform) than a passat (a6/superb platform) hence bigger in many ways.
3 series is generally about same as a4 and lexis 200 series type cars. Smaller than you think and not the practical car many think they are.
For practical Ness and not scary running costs get an accord or a mondeo. IF you can find any for sale, neither have sold anything like the numbers of tge Germans abd French cars recently, accord wagons are almost "rare" and higher spec mondeo (2.2 in graphite or titanium x) are equally hard to come by but drive quite rewardingly and have many gadget standard.
If you want German, get a superb, unless you get into current generation passat 2015 onwards and plummet value way worse than previous generations, which is odd). The older (2010/15) superb wagon I think is prob the best of those.
2008 on volvo v70 are ok so long as it has a volvo engine in it (any 5 cylinder petrol or diesel). I used to saw maybe avoid the 1.6 and 2.0 diesel ford units, but now i saw defo avoid, unless they have got way less than 50k on. Know too many people that have fallen fowl of this engine made of cheese.