Recommend me a car for £5000 or under

[adam c]

Hi due to the nova getting sold im on the lookout for another car.It needs to be fairly quick,handle well and be reliable.It will also be my daily driver and be used for going for drive's upto scotland/wales etc(and hopefully germany and the nurgburgring).the few cars i've been looking at are:

Civic type r - Honda reliability,suppose to handle okay but not very tunable in N/A form.

seat ibiza cupra - Very tunable,not supposed to handle that good and starting to look abit dated.

clio 182/172 cup -Handle brilliantly,fairly quick,not keen on interior(nothing seems to set it off from the other models in the range)

s2 106 rallye - Handle good,fairly rare,getting old abit and i can see them being a bit of a pain on motorways etc.


what do you guys think or suggest?anymore cars?also anywhere else to look on the internet for cars?i've tried ebay,pistonheads and various owners forums.

[hendrix]

my astra coupe turbo lol

[Sloth]

306 gti-6 mate, or an astra sri turbo mk4

[Spudly]

Lmfao he said a car not a rolling fail lol


Sorry dude, um you can buy my nova for £4500 and it comes with a five metre guarantee and free mcDonalds arches:thumb:

[mowgli]

one of those tata things?

[Pistol Pete]

I'd go for the Civic, Ford Focus or something from the VAG stable. Golf, Audi A3/A4, Seat Leon, Skoda Octavia.

[Ash]

clio 182 or a Leon Cupra R :cool: - if you can afford the insurance.

Regards to the Civic - why would you want to modify it? It's one of the few cars that I recon are near perfect out the box.

EDIT: and look on Auto Trader, cars seem to go less on there than eBay lol

[hendrix]

Lmfao he said a car not a rolling fail lol


Sorry dude, um you can buy my nova for £4500 and it comes with a five metre guarantee and free mcDonalds arches:thumb:
Its sorted now, crank sensor kept killing it. cheeky fecker lol
Passat 1.8T??

[Matt Pickering]

Some nice Audi S3's on piston heads for around that money


Matt..

[Bubba]

mk2 golf with a 1.8 20vt ;)

[greg1.4]

astra gsi turbo..

[Welshy]

clio sport mate no doubt about how much of a smile it would put on your face, either that or a astra gte/gsi

[Bubba]

ooo a gte...nice choice

[Sloth]

hmmm a mint mk1 astra gte or a manta with a let?

[brainsnova]

my mates slk £4500

[Ash]

Just been looking around, can get an Audi TT for £5k :thumb:

[Welshy]

mk 1 gte with no mods at all in cream, pure sexy lol

[~~joycey~~]

Astra coupe turbo


Mk4 golf gti 20v turbo


:)

[ednovasr2]

BMW 2000 new shape 320 or 320d there mint and with coilovers even better but the Skoda Vrs is mad too with a few mods easy to see 390fl lb

[johnny_turbo]

vw bora

[adam c]

BMW 2000 new shape 320 or 320d there mint and with coilovers even better but the Skoda Vrs is mad too with a few mods easy to see 390fl lb

the only BMW i would consider is an E30 M3:cool:

[keithrg]

Id be looking audi or lexus for fun yet comfort and reliability

[Bubba]

get 10 nova's..

[adam c]

Matt- Good call on the S3 im going to ring a guy tommorow about one:thumb: .i didnt know how much they had dropped!

Ash- The leon cupra seems a bit big and lardy for my liking and the civic is fairly tuned out of the factory but i know i will want abit more power eventually when i get boredlol

Sloth- Stop putting daft ideas into my headlol .after the nova i want abit of a more comfortable newer car.

Bubba- No just no!lol

[nacho mcnova]

sierra cossie pick them up for 4g's
skyline r33 turbo
Focus ST170
escort RST
or jst buy a mini and convert to a 1.3 hayabusa turbo!!!

[tom_beverley]

If you don't mind tractor noises then a Fabia vRS ticks a lot of boxes, except for they don't handle fantastically (not bad either though) standard. Fairly cheap too, can pick a really good one up for £5k. Nice interior, lovely and comfy, power kicks in around 2k rpm and at 80mph you are doing just over 2k rpm in 6th gear.

Mines still running the standard clutch and was RR'd at 164bhp with 259ft/lb torque, yet will still deliver 45mpg on a good run. Any more power and you want one with an uprated clutch minimum, but the engines are good for over 200bhp and near 400ft/lb with a hybrid turbo and a few other bits.

[Dod]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/bkz187/E39%20BMW/5.jpg

530D M Sport. Nuff said.

[Asa-James]

fiat coupe 20valve Turbo (get the + model if you can)
fiat coupe 16valve turbo (uses the lancia delta hf integrale engine:))
alfa GTV v6, later spec 3.0 or 3.2
alfa 156/147 GTA, 250bhp, lovely noise, and suprisingly comfortable.

thats my current list anyway, unless you include a Panda 100hp

[dj_wudgey]

go for something old and not ghey lol

[Stuart]

There is an X plate 540 for under £5K at a 2nd hand dealer that likes to charge a good 20-30% more than most... so thats a funky big ass start

[xe Dan]

s3 is the way i think my mate has got one and he gives it death every day just watch out for clutchs they take about 9hours to do and they are not cheap

[ant_tay]

impreza

[rednova]

s3's are good but you can get s4s too which i think have slightly more kudos in my opinion anyway - tbh theres a lot of fast audis out there

[RJM25R]

impreza

imprezalol

spend £4k on the best one you can (Late classic or early frogeye) and a grand on an exhaust/warlbro/remap+270-280Bhp and 280-300lbfttorque.

[ant_tay]

i cant beleive i was the first to suggest an impreza

[Ash]

Ash- The leon cupra seems a bit big and lardy for my liking and the civic is fairly tuned out of the factory but i know i will want abit more power eventually when i get boredlol
lol

Civic vs Leon vs Focus vs Mini vs MG ZR vs Clio 172 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6BTrKmyAAc)

BTW the later leon is 225bhp. The early one is 210bhp ;)

[keithrg]

how about one of these. they can sure move.
RENAULT MEGANE sport 225

[Ash]

:eek: find me one for £5k - I'll buy two! lol

[Nova_Sean]

The cupra r is a very nice car. The old man used to have one but sold it. it was mint. God how he misses that car!

[nacho mcnova]

impreza are to common and there not as good as everyone thinks, most peeps just buy the car for the note that comes off them. Audi s3/s4, mazda RX7 twin turbo are pretty uncommon and they are fun to drive and fookin rapid!

[ant_tay]

you can get a cheap uk spec facelift and throw on a TD05h turbo off the imports and your looking at import power and the cheaper insurance uk spec being only grp 17 or there is the ihi range of turbos all will boost the power very well this is what i did with mine anyway juat my opinion also common is not always a bad thing

[Welsh Dan]

You could get an ST220 for that budget.

[adam c]

im off to go look at an s3 tonight:)

[General Baxter]

why go fast when you can go anywhere

patrol ftw :)

[adam c]

i went to see the S3 tonight but it was a bit tatty so im still 50/50 wether to get it or not:confused: .

[Welsh Dan]

You can get a lot of car for £5k, I wouldnt want a tatty one.

[Welshy]

get a golf and put a bora front end on it... a BOLF!!! FTW!!!

[adam c]

You can get a lot of car for £5k, I wouldnt want a tatty one.

Yeah ive now decided against gettin it.so im still on the look out:)

[Huffy]

the cilo 172/82 are nice well thats what id have if i never had my nova. my mate has a 172 its nice inside and out

[Joe Richardson]

saph cosworth:thumb:

[Joe Richardson]

s3 is the way i think my mate has got one and he gives it death every day just watch out for clutchs they take about 9hours to do and they are not cheap

yep,there is alot of labour involved on doing the clutch on a old shape s3:(