my cossie is coming of the road for a few months to be sorted out and i need a run about for school run/ general dinking about

mpg: un important
power: more the merrier
street cred: who gives a toss
rwd: bonus
turbo: bonus (up the boost haha!)

budget £500 ish

been looking at 850 t5's
old bimmers

but ayone think of better?

 

Doesn't meet the "Desirables" above but for the first three it does... that being a Focus, a car that is ultra reliable and practical I can not rate them high enough. Thats what i would say if you could stretch your budget a bit.

Tbh with that budget there are not a lot of cars I can easily think of that could satisfy all your needs.

Martin

 

Buy an old granada cossie. get them for pennies id have thought
Not to far from you really
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1992-FORD-GRAN...item1e6095cbcc

 

st24, some cheapies to be had nowdays, paid 600 for mine on a t reg, not bad nick either

 

All i will say to the above is stupid waterpump and headgasket problems. Im bitter towrd those engines, I had a 24v ghia x saloon years ago, Fucking thing lol

 

the headgasket probs were due to plastic waterpumps, if its been replaced there should be no probs, my pal has a r reg one that ticked over to 180k over xmas an is still as smooth as mine

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1998-FORD-ESCORT-GTI-RED-/330514199757?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4cf42e74cd

id have a punt at this

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ford-P100-pick...item2eb248ca1a
12mts test!

 

I dont like them when they are flat beds like that with no rear bodies. You say you need a car for the school run etc? I take it you only have 1 kid if your contemplating a 2 seat vehicle

 

yea just the one we have a octavia as the family car but the "missus" uses it for work so im left walking about! i only want something that can be binned when finished with lol!

 

agree with the flatbed statement looks like it has a 6x6 fence panel strapped on it!

 

Fair enough then. buy ans mr2. theyre cheap and fairly lively. mate ha d a 2.0 g limited import years ago an d it was quite good. his dad had the uk gti version at the same time and the import was much quicker. think they were more power than the uk version too

 

yea just looking on fleabay at the moment there is a couple of mr2's on there really cheep surprizing whats out there really for under £500!
ooh! looking at rwd bimmers now!

 

omg this is the one! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7h...-drifting_auto

 

just buy an festa

 

is that standard.

 

e36 325
190bhp
rwd
looks nice
nice interior

volvo 740/940 turbo
rwd 170/200bhp (depends on model,theres a few)
sleeper if you up the boost
good load lugger

those would be my suggestions

 

Nah,shows 540hp/ 700nm of torque!!!!I'd say 200/250 in real life.

 

old BMW, thats what i'd go for

 

Volvo every time....Up the boost let the pupy rip.

 

bloke at work has one just covered 267,000 and had no work done othere than the services each year his is on a s-reg and he got it from new

 

Cheers for the responses lads some of you get my way of thinking lol!

 

i was going to convert my 2.8 xr4x4 for one of them engines but fuck that to much hassle my 2.8 might not be the fastest motor but easy to fix.

 

just get something that works, rev the fuck out of it and bin it.
for that reason i bought a seat ibiza gti, not particularly quick, or great on fuel, but reliable and didn't mind chucking all sorts of shit in the boot.
now don't need it as i bought a bora tdi.

 

This just popped up on retro rides,it's actually 1988 not 86.

Proper luxobarge!!!!

http://retrorides.proboards.com/inde...y&thread=94983

 

850 T-5. 225bhp, five pot turbo lump, and most are really well equiped. I wouldn't buy anything else for around that sort of money to be honest.