First Car suggestions?

[.Jasonnn]

I may not be able to play on the server for a while but it doesn't stop me getting help... I have been learning to drive for the past few months and am struggling to find my first car. So here is the question.. what car should I get? Price range £1500-£5000

 

[NotMattch]

A couple of questions:

• Who's going to be paying the Insurance / Tax / MOT Charges?
  
• Are you willing to get a telematics box fitted to the vehicle for Insurance?
  
• Do you actually need a car or do you want it "just because?" (This will become more apparent later)
  

 

[.Jasonnn]

A couple of questions:

• Who's going to be paying the Insurance / Tax / MOT Charges?
  
• Are you willing to get a telematics box fitted to the vehicle for Insurance?
  
• Do you actually need a car or do you want it "just because?" (This will become more apparent later)
  

1. I'll be paying the insurance as I have a job to do so and the MOT and tax.

2. I'm guessing that is the black box... well yes as it will if I drive safely decrease my insurance a little.

2. I have to catch the bus to work a lot and it is costing me a tonne of money... but it'll probably cost more for the car... so I'm gonna say want it. 

 

[CoreyB]

I love my lil fiesta. 1.6 TDCi. only cost £20 a year for tax and insurance is reasonable without a black box. I would recommend a black box for the first year tho.

 

[Alucard12368]

Get a Polo, they're basically a skateboard with an engine =P

 

[Zeito]

Always check what your insurance is like before you get your car. My first car was a 1998 Mk4 Ford Fiesta 1.4L. It cost £500 and insurance was £2800-3200 in the couple of years i had it. As an older car it broke down ALL the time. It actually spent more time off the road, than on the road. Yes I actually had it in this 'Cadburys Purple' colour. This was a shit car, but it got me from A->B

Then it was stolen and I replaced it with a 2001 Mk2 Clio - 1.4L. This car was amazing. French cars get a lot of bad press but i only had 2 issues with it and neither were a big deal. The 1.5L DCi version of this clio is cheap to tax, and very cheap to run. I loved this car, I had it for 3 years, even as petrol it was cheap to run, insurance ranged from £1400 to £500 in the years I had it (lost NCB when claiming for the stolen Fiesta). I had it in this sweet green colour. 4 doors was also great.

I had my Clio above for the rest of university and when i graduated I traded it in to buy myself my dream car which is my 2007 Subaru Impreza WRX UK. This car is awesome, it's a 2.5L Turbo Petrol, but it costs £500+ a year to tax. It costs around £60 in petrol every week, but the insurance is actually pretty reasonable at £700/yr.

For your first car - you'll have to accept a few things. 1) It's going to cost a totally unreasonable amount to insure. Likely many times its value. 2) It's going to possibly be bit of a shitbox. 3) You will, statistically speaking, crash it. So it needs to be cheap to repair. I would recommend the Clio - out of all the cars I had and my friends had when we started driving - the Clio was the most widespread (parts are cheap) - they cost absolute buttons to run, they are fairly cheap to tax - £30 or so a year for the 1.5 DCi Diesel, or £130 or so a year for petrol (1.4, the 1.2 is probably cheaper, but im all about dat BHP) - You can get them for a cheap as a few hundred quid, so when it gets dinged in a car park, or something horrible befalls it, it's cheap enough that you're not massively financially invested in it.

Whatever you go for - i recommend you get a 4-door car. 2 doors becomes a real hassle letting people in and out of the back. Unless you get something like a Mazda MX-5.

 

[Jumper]

Golfs are great cars especially for a first. Try to either lush you budget for one or see if you can get one at your price.

 

[Chris England]

Always check what your insurance is like before you get your car. My first car was a 1998 Mk4 Ford Fiesta 1.4L. It cost £500 and insurance was £2800-3200 in the couple of years i had it. As an older car it broke down ALL the time. It actually spent more time off the road, than on the road. Yes I actually had it in this 'Cadburys Purple' colour. This was a shit car, but it got me from A->B

Then it was stolen and I replaced it with a 2001 Mk2 Clio - 1.4L. This car was amazing. French cars get a lot of bad press but i only had 2 issues with it and neither were a big deal. The 1.5L DCi version of this clio is cheap to tax, and very cheap to run. I loved this car, I had it for 3 years, even as petrol it was cheap to run, insurance ranged from £1400 to £500 in the years I had it (lost NCB when claiming for the stolen Fiesta). I had it in this sweet green colour. 4 doors was also great.

I had my Clio above for the rest of university and when i graduated I traded it in to buy myself my dream car which is my 2007 Subaru Impreza WRX UK. This car is awesome, it's a 2.5L Turbo Petrol, but it costs £500+ a year to tax. It costs around £60 in petrol every week, but the insurance is actually pretty reasonable at £700/yr.

For your first car - you'll have to accept a few things. 1) It's going to cost a totally unreasonable amount to insure. Likely many times its value. 2) It's going to possibly be bit of a shitbox. 3) You will, statistically speaking, crash it. So it needs to be cheap to repair. I would recommend the Clio - out of all the cars I had and my friends had when we started driving - the Clio was the most widespread (parts are cheap) - they cost absolute buttons to run, they are fairly cheap to tax - £30 or so a year for the 1.5 DCi Diesel, or £130 or so a year for petrol (1.4, the 1.2 is probably cheaper, but im all about dat BHP) - You can get them for a cheap as a few hundred quid, so when it gets dinged in a car park, or something horrible befalls it, it's cheap enough that you're not massively financially invested in it.

Whatever you go for - i recommend you get a 4-door car. 2 doors becomes a real hassle letting people in and out of the back. Unless you get something like a Mazda MX-5.

your insurance was loads cus you went with a expensive insurance company... 

I've just bought my first car, it's a black 1.25l 2010 fiesta, cost me £4,100 to buy, £120 MOT and £1200 insurance per year (no black box) if you're gona be a safe driver i recommend a company called "achoice insurance", they're not super well known but do cheap insurance, my friend has a 1.2l corsa which is also £1,200 a year for insurance from the same company so i recommend something like those cars. Fiesta's are good cars btw, really easy to drive and have really good stock speakers so no need to get a sub, not that you can easily put one in a fiesta.