What Car Should I Buy?

Laguna estate? Cheap ish actually tyre sensors are an issue as well as breaking springs

also fugliness a concern

Oh watch that the te doesn't get classed as commercial and effected by the emmissions zone.

Or a Sirocchohohohoh

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Skoda Ocatvia RS Wagon? Then you can fill the roof and boot with bikes and pretend your in Le Tour. Plus like a Golf, only cheaper, and less wankie.

I've got a Skoda Roomster Diesel, it has removable rear seats and will take a full Rollapaluza setup including four bikes, spares and small PA, plus driver and one passenger....but is a small car for insurance and tax purposes.

63mpg and reliable...has done over 100mph over here on German Autobahns.

Rover 75 or MG ZT tourer.
But only the Diesel (BMW motor) or the V8 (Mustang motor)

If you go by the Rules the car should cost less than your bike. I bought an old Citroën ZX. Cost next to nothing by Danish standards (180% tax on cars), fits at least two bikes sans wheels in the back and goes more than 35 mpg.

I'd sell you my Volvo for £3,000, which is less than I spent on the engine rebuild by quite a long way.

The car has 161K on it, but the important bits (engine/turbo/tyres/clutch/brakes/suspension) all have less than 10K.

The engine would be classed as "built", and in the configuration that it is currently in will provide 400 horsepower with a bigger turbo/injectors/intercooler.

It's currently running around 100 below that, depending om ambient conditions.

As you are well aware, before the engine rebuild it would do 146 mph with three bikes, you and one other person in it.

It costs (based on current petrol prices) around £0.25 per mile for petrol, and my insurance (fully comprehensive including business use) was £406 this year, including the declared modifications.

Focus/Mondeo estate, diesel.

Job doe.

If he's not going to do many miles then the higher cost of buying a diesel is a waste of money surely?

No.

I will sell you my Porsche for about £3K

No.

Why?

A diesel car will be ~£1,000 more to buy than the equivalent petrol model.

More to tax as well, depending on the age of the car.

£1,000 buys a lot of petrol- that would get my stupidly thirsty petrol car £4,000 miles, and that's on super-unleaded.

A 1.8 litre petrol Mondeo (for example) will use the cheaper unleaded, and do many many more miles on a tank.

The only reason to go for a Diesel would be if he's going to do 10,000 miles a year, and I doubt that is going to be the case.

I get 550 miles on a tank of diesel. It costs me £80 per tank. It takes 3 months to use a tank.

It cost me no more to buy the diesel model.

That's as maybe, but typically if you take two (say) Mondeo estates the Diesel version will be much more expensive than the petrol, both new and used.

If he is planning on keeping the car for any length of time then it will easily pay for itself.

This is the man who cannot keep a phone for longer than three months- he'll have four cars during the first year.

Anyway, he's an IT contractor, he can afford to run his car on whale oil if he wants to so this part of the discussion is pretty pointless.

Look Hippy, only a V8 will satisfy you, we all know that.

Be prepared to get actually raped by insurance companies.

V8 estate- RS4 would be too small to get a bike in, probably going to be a C class.

can get my track bike in my corsa without taking any wheels off. I don't think anything is too small to get a bike in.

Old flatmate had an RS4- it's tiny in there, we struggled to get a headboard in with the seats down.

Heh, there is a diesel Sierra pick-up on eBay, quite tempted by it myself.

All I can say, is that if you buy a car from eBay... put the link on LFGSS first and click-through to make the bids.

If you go by the Rules the car should cost less than your bike. I bought an old Citroën ZX. Cost next to nothing by Danish standards (180% tax on cars), fits at least two bikes sans wheels in the back and goes more than 35 mpg.

Cost less than which bike though?

VW Passat with BlueOysterBar technology.. whatever that is?

http://www.buyacar.co.uk/volkswagen_passat_diesel_estate/car_20_tdi_bluemotion_tech_s_5dr_32921.jhtml