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£7000 Budget for a new family car?


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Starting to look for a new car as the other half and i are expecting a little one in may. Needs to be diesel and 5 door and no more than £7000 any ideas? Needs to be practical good on fuel but not that it is going to bore the crap out of me. So far looked at and quite like the new shape 320/330d BMW

Any ideas?

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So if its a saloon then it's only A4, Passat or Jetta. If larger then an A6. Otherwise it will need to be a Q5 - I dont recommend the touran (older models - to much of a van and the blind spot on the rear quarter is a shocker..

If you wanna step outside the box my sis has one of those ford fusion things and swears by it. - I have seen one lowered all black and rear tints and alloys and it looked the bolloxs ... Smax is a good drive.. but massive

TBH mate all saloons you will struggle with the opening on the boot not pram friendly at all! So either a big hatchback or you will need to go the people carrier route. In which case get the biggest you can as the people carriers perversly tend to have a limited boot size when all seats are in place...unless you go roof box then handling and mpg are affected.

I fully understand the BMW diesels but always remember rwd and thus dont work in the snow. X1 or X3 maybe an option but again they must have 4wd othersie you have the same issues on those weeks the UK stops...

Golf TDi 4Motion if you can find one is a belter of a solution..

hope it helps...

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Cool some different options there. The reason for the BMW is i have already had 3 so just like the drive of them and the fact they are solid Room for the buggy is something i need to check though. As for the snow im not worried just means more fun for me lol. been ok in the snow with my last ones so shouldnt be a problem. Dont really want a 4wd as they always seem to drink the fuel.

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