So I've decided I need a new daily car to get me to work ect, I have no idea what I want to buy but have about a 10k budget, could go a little higher if I find something perfect. I really couldn't care less about the looks of the car, the main priority is economy and cost to run it day to day with tax, insurance and mpg. So far the hybrids seem to be winning in the form of prius and Honda civic.

 

Firstly does anybody have any experience of these cars in terms ofrepair costs and parts if anything goes wrong and secondly does anybody have any other suggestions or words of wisdom against the prius and civic.

 

They both do about 60 mpg and cost about 20 quid a year in road tax.

 

Cheers

I was told the Prius is nothing but trouble dont know about the Honda

ive had an 08 plate Civic since new and i've been very happy with it. it's note even a Type R or Type S

Renault megane 1.5 dCI mine on an 56 plate tax 35 per year and will be free when i do it next, also have a chip fitted and did a 250 mile round trip to bradford and averaged 80.2 to the gal, cheapest car ive ever owned to run

ive had an 08 plate Civic since new and i've been very happy with it. it's note even a Type R or Type S

 

the car i have been looking at is a 1.4 hybrid half electric half petrol effort, cheers for the response tho, i do hear good things about hondas reciently

Renault megane 1.5 dCI mine on an 56 plate tax 35 per year and will be free when i do it next, also have a chip fitted and did a 250 mile round trip to bradford and averaged 80.2 to the gal, cheapest car ive ever owned to run

 

brilliant, thanks i'll look into it, any down sides to having the chip thing done and how much was it if you dont mind me asking

My personal opinion is similar to that of the Top Gear team.....

 

.....forget hybrid shite like the Prius or Insight and buy a decent turbo diesel car instead.

 

Something like the Golf TDi or the new Astra TDi Eco-flex are the way to go. Better MPG; better performance and they don't look like crappy electric cars either. Plus with the Astra TDi Eco-flex; emissions are below 110g of CO2 so the road tax is a big fat zero!!

 

Yes, that's right - I've just bought a new Astra estate Eco-flex (cost £16.5k) as a company car for someone at work and sure enough, the road tax does not cost a bean. And it's about 110bhp (I think); so without the extra weight that hybrids have to carry it's faster and more economical.

 

Richard:thumbup1:

I can vouch for those Megane 1.5dci's I had one as a courtesy car for 2 weeks before (130bhp) and it went like a rocket and I was getting silly Mpg.

 

It just looks like crap.

My misses has a 1.4 honda jazz se sport, it was fully loaded with holiday stuff and a roof box 3 adults and a baby. Went from Portsmouth to Minehead Butlins and back to Portsmouth only cost £35 in fuel. The fuel light was on so put in £25 then on the way home have put in an other £10 as i got on to the M27. And it sits at 80 easy on the motorway.

 

Might be worth looking at the new civics. The Jazz is a girls car.

Life is too short to drive a crap car, spend half of ya budget on something nice and comfortable (jag,merc S class, BMW 7 series, saab convertible for the summer) and waste the other 5 twards the fuel over the next few years.

I use a 5 liter merc as my daily driver at the moment, was 90 grand in 1995 and is still a better car than any new econobox now.