A diesel, economical estate, what would you get?

[RandomJord]

Skoda Octavia vRS 170TDI estate.

Game over 

All day!....... IF you can find one an get there before the rest!

there is quite a few of these on fleebay

Ah yes, frequent of the poor

[DubFan]

^Oi !

I like my Octavia.

For price comparison, my 2007 Octavia estate was under £6k with 40k on the clock. I found it quite tricky to find a decent diesel Octavia with decent miles around that price. So for £8k you should be able to find one. I plumped for the petrol 1.6 FSI engine instead. Very good on petrol, can very easily get 40mpg.

[Chris#101]

BMW E46 330D 

[VW BUSH]

Time has finally come (well two weeks) that the familly are getting a derv estate. Passat sized.

Mum wants to spend round 6ish but I reckon they'd push for 8.

Don't want any more then 60k miles. Dad wants a Passat or an Audi although I've been put off with Adam's issues.

Then a Honda accord 2.2 Estate popped up, what are they like size wise? Probably pretty damned bombproof, no?

What would you get? 


Honda is a nice car, we have one as a pool car at work.
Like all modern cars they are cheap to run until something goes wrong, get a warranty

[Neo Badness]

Skoda Octavia vRS 170TDI estate.

Old boy has one from new, cracking all rounder in standard form and I enjoy driving when the opportunity presents. You almost hope to get stuck behind slow moving traffic on B-roads so you can overtake with ease. If driven sensibly you can even get decent mpg I've heard 

Just watch out for EGR valve issues...

[sprout99]

BMW E46 330D 

my choice.......needs to be facelift (higher power version which were 2004MY)

Awesome handling and build quality and 6 pot burble.