Looking for advice on a car for the missus. She's got £4-4.5k to spend and the only criteria she says is she wants something where she's high up.

Really what she wants is some sort of soft-roader, good on fuel, reasonable to run and have room for the dog, pram and nine week old baby. I know it's not a lot of money for what she's after - ideally she wants a Range Rover or something like that but anything like that in her budget is too old. She'll not be interested in anything pre-2006.

I thought on some sort of Qashqui type thing but the budget has fucked me. Any ideas?

I suggested a Volvo or Skoda estate but she said no estates or cross countrys of any kind.

 

Freelander?

 

my missus has a hyundai terracan, good solid motors, great ground clearance and big boot space. an 06 plate on around 60k should be within your budget

 

I would be looking for a Honda CRV

 

She's looking at Freelanders just now. But £12k ones

 

freelanders are turd

 

That's what I said!

She's now looking at Grand Vitaras and a Kia Sportage. Had thought on a CRV but seems to be over budget for a decent one.

Have never heard of the Hyundai one before, worth a look.

Edit - she's locked in on Rav 4s and Vitaras

 

vitara shit on fuel

 

hyundai also do a santa fe which is slightly smaller than the terrecan

 

Might find a few x5/x3 in that budget discoverys arent bad either

 

An X5 or Discovery are the two that I would have but I'd expect to have a bigger budget for a decent one so had discounted them. Would rather have a fully specced X5 or Disco 3 and spend the extra money but I'm not selling my own car and adding to the pot.

 

Can you not pick up an xc90 for that budget?

 

A xc90 at that price will be scrap imo. I viewed 4 for a customer at work, cheapest iirc was £9000 ish dearest nearly 11k. We gave up trying to find a good one.

 

daihatsu terios?

 

Fiat Panda 4x4?

 

The Terios and Panda are both too small IMO.

She's locked in on a Vitara now and might need to up her budget to £5k for a decent one. The only thing that worries me about that is how it'll be on fuel as a few people have told me that it's pretty poor.

Had thought on an XC90 but didn't think I'd find any within budget, even with Moon milage

 

how about one of these.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mitsubishi...item33882134b8