Without any regard for style:

What brand of car do you guys think is a really good on economy. Any garage can fix, parts not expensive, good value for money and automatic
Zippy enough, but will a 1 litre ish engine be ok?

Petrol or diesel?

Few thousand ish as a budget

Dacia looks ok but not automatic.....


Any suggestions ? Filters are in fact so good that in certain circumstances, when the ambient air is already polluted, a diesel car will tend to extract more particles from the air than it emits. Emissions Analytics worked with........etc etc

He who dies with the most toys wins...

For me I would head towards a diesel Golf. I take it youre looking at an older car in which case the 1.9PD engine is nothing short of amazing in terms of economy and performance, I've had 2 PD engined vehicles, both did 200,000+ absolutely trouble free. BMW i3 Electric Car
2012 Full Fat RR 4.4 TDV8 (now gone)
2006 VW Touareg 3.0 TDi V6

Focus.......petrol if you can find one. David

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Fiesta?? 2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue SE Buckingham Blue with Ivory and clear glass = "Rory"
New Defender D300 90 on order so "Rory" will be going to a new home....!
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Thanks for your pointers...


Bill Filters are in fact so good that in certain circumstances, when the ambient air is already polluted, a diesel car will tend to extract more particles from the air than it emits. Emissions Analytics worked with........etc etc

He who dies with the most toys wins...

Ford Fiesta. Any day. There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
FFRR 4.4 SDV8 Autobiography Santorini Black.
Fiat 500x 1.4 multiair Lounge 2015
2010 LR D4 Commercial 2.7 TDV6

Fiesta 1.0 ecoboost.

Bought one a couple of years ago for my daughter. As powerful as a 1.6 non turbo petrol, 64 mpg, zero road tax and parts as cheap as chips.

Car now has been passed down to her younger sister so I gave it a full fluids service, including changinging the gearbox oil and brake fluid for under £100 using FoMoCo genuine parts and oils.

Jim

I have a 54 plate (first of the newer shape, MK5? i think?) Golf TD GT 170hp DSG and its quite simply ace... Cost me next to nothing to run and can be bought for banger money these days...

Post 2010 Fiat 500. Seat as comfy as a FF and 50+ MPG. My Mrs has one and we love it.

Renault Zoe.

Free tax, low insurance and about 2p per mile for fuel. Nippy as anything else arrive town and happy to sit at 70+ out of town. Free home charger installed paid for by govt grant and Renault.

Electric. It's not the future. It's the present.