Metropol

Hello fellow Metropolitans,

I'm currently in the process of looking for a new car and wondered what advice anyone here might have? I've currently got an N-reg Ford Mondeo, but I fancy something newer and sportier. I quite like the look of the new shape Honda Civics.

What do you guys drive, if anything, and what would you recommend I take a closer look at?

I drive a hard bargain and recommend you take a close look at your electricity consumption. Stop leaving all that stuff on standby!

HTH

One car I would recommend against buying is the current Micra (although I realise this isn't a sporty car) it's really uncomfortable as a passenger so I wouldn't image it was any better for the driver.

Well my current car is a Vauxhall Tigra (not one of the nice new cabriolet ones alas) which is basically a Corsa with abit stuck on the back.

They certainly have a sporty look and feel about them. Unfortunately I don't get the opportunity to drive it at the moment as a nasty magistrate told me I couldn't for a while! :roll: :roll:

You can't beat Fords, in my opinion.

Have been driving them, with very few exceptions, since one like the above.

At least if anything does go wrong, the parts are cheap, whether original or chinese copies.

Nick Harvey wrote:

You can't beat Fords, in my opinion.

Have been driving them, with very few exceptions, since one like the above.

At least if anything does go wrong, the parts are cheap, whether original or chinese copies.

Woah that is a classic car, when does that date from, never seen one of those before

They date from the fifties, though it WAS the sixties when I was driving one.

The next one I had was the flatter model.

Nick Harvey wrote:They date from the fifties, though it WAS the sixties when I was driving one.

The next one I had was the flatter model.

Ah a 100e also known as the Poplar/Anglia I believe?

Yep, mine was a 100e Popular. 1,172cc, side valve engine.

They had the brand new invention, vacuum powered windscreen wipers (yes, plural, one for the passenger side as well).

Trouble was, the vacuum was generated from the exhaust manifold, so if the engine was struggling, the wipers stopped.

Half way up every hill in the rain, you had to take your foot off the gas for long enough for the wipers to do one wipe, so you could see where you were going.

By the next lot of Ford designs, the vacuum idea had gone in the bin and electric was back.

What ever you get, better make sure its Grodon Brown firendly. If we are to believe all the pre budget hype, he's going to use the current Fashion of being green to raise the road toax on any car with a decent size engine.

Its tought being a motorist - everyone wants their drop of blood out of you