Chris_C wrote:The Civic pre that is pretty awesome, the wedge one.

Indeed they are. I'm waiting on my Aunt to sell me her mint one owner from new VTEC with something silly like 50k on the clocks

A MkII Polo is another car which looks good with OEM alloys and some special edition stripes. Here's a "girly" car if ever I saw one



I'd rather have a 1.3 in one of those than in a Golf. 55bhp MkII Golfs are even slower than a B14 340 ...

Tom

The trouble with those Polo's (and the ones after) is that they don't have servo'd brakes making them very heavy to drive, esp for a new driver who has learnt on something a bit more modern. They're also pretty basic when compared to Civic's, 340's etc and feel very flimsy and tinny.

V6 Man wrote:The trouble with those Polo's (and the ones after) is that they don't have servo'd brakes making them very heavy to drive, esp for a new driver who has learnt on something a bit more modern.

A mate of mine was looking to replace a K10 Micra with something, as his (now wife) was learning. Had to be safe, so we went shopping and brought back a 340.

"It's big"
"It's grey"
"Steering is heavy"

and other such woman stuff.

Nowt wrong with it, but that's woman for you.

They have a Mk3 or 4 Glof now.

Civic before that rounded model is bit prone to rust and there is not much metal to rust so usually there is hole or something falling off when there is rust. Those rounded ones are bit better, but not classic insurance then again.

1.3 in Civic is enough fast and has good economy, it is not a rocket, but I don't think that first car should be a rocket, visibility is good and controls are very easy to operate. Older ones are with carbs.

There is also sedan which does not suffer so much from scene tax? At least less boyricers would be doing traffic light racing which that body type:


But it is Japanese car with all good and bad with them.

That Civic foggy posted - can imagine insurance will be an issue... as even the lowly 1.5's are about group 12 or something!?

That brown Golf Tom posted looks surprisingly nice, great colour. You'd easily get one for under a grand, you can even get 8v GTi's for that kind of money and they're not total sheds. A 1.6 driver wouldn't be a bad idea.

foggyjames wrote:I am indeed talking about Ruth. She wants a car, but has very little money at present to spend on making it happen. Insurance is by far the biggest worry, as she has only recently passed her test.

Just a thought on this...

Cars have a habit of breaking and either she's going to have to learn how to fix it to truely run it cheap (you know as well as I do how much any of our cars would have cost had we used garages), or you are going to have to give up a project car. Granted you'll possibly get more bouncy fun time...

The way I can see this going is Ruth gets to choose and drive a project car you end up constantly chasing which is going to be something you arn't interested in and it a pain as it's small and FWD. You'll loose the faith and even less of your cars get any attention than do at the moment. All to save someone else money.

Just a thought...

SteveP wrote:That Civic foggy posted - can imagine insurance will be an issue... as even the lowly 1.5's are about group 12 or something!?

The 1.3's are groups 8-10 and have the advantage of cheaper road tax. There's a nice 3dr 1.3 hatch on autotrader at the mo with only 35k, but it's £850.