Looking for a workhorse type thing to get me back and forward to work.

 

My last job, which they shut down and made us all redundant was a 10 mile a day trip. As I use my Dodge Ram as my daily, 5.7ltr Hemi it wasnt that bad.

A gallon a day took care of the work run !

However, start a new job next Monday and its a 65 mile round trip !! Do the maths !:crying:

 

Looking for a cheapo runaround, but would need a kinda medium type size car, ie,

Vectra, Mondeo etc. Had a few Vectras, but never a diesel.

 

Any recommendations ?? Heres the tricky bit !:ohmy:

Budget is limited ! Can stretch to £2000, maybe a few quid more if its a good un. Fire away troops.

 

Alan............

my bm was the same as that, 55 average but on the run home i got 67 :)

The MPG I'm talking about is what's displayed on the trip computer in the car - but I have to say it seems pretty accurate! My Dad drives pretty steady though to make sure he gets the best MPG he can as he has to pay for his own fuel on the commute to work. I know that some on-board computers are inaccurate for example the 2.0 diesel Mondeo we have says it does 58 MPG on the computer when it does noticably less miles on the same amount of litres as the passat and when worked out manually between full tanks it actually averages more like 51MPG :)