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3/22/2013 5:04:00 PM
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Well after looking at several Renaults and Citroens, I can say the build quality has put me off. There's a reason they depreciate so much so quickly. I never realised the BMW was rear-wheel-drive which is what makes them so expensive to insure. Knowing this now though, I'm really tempted to hold out until July and get a 1 series.
Still, if not I've narrowed it to a choice of two cars, both in the region of £5-6.5K with the same insurance cost. We have:
[b]Option 1:[/b] VW Golf 1.6 Match, 5 door. Brilliant spec of car and a range to choose from in the price bracket. Cruise control. Climate control. Audo controls on the steering wheel. 6-speed. 0-62 in 10.8 seconds (no race winners for this budget and insurance bracket).
[b]Option 2:[/b] Audi A3 Special Edition/Sport FSI 1.6, 5 door. Some of the A3s are faster than the others, with less than 11 seconds in the 0-62. These are more expensive to insure than the 102hp models which do it in 11.9 seconds. So the Audi is slower than the Golf, less well-equipped, but damn is it a looker.
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[quote] [b]Option 1:[/b] VW Golf 1.6 Match, 5 door..... 0-62 in 10.8 seconds [b]Option 2:[/b] Audi A3 Special Edition/Sport FSI 1.6, 5 door....with less than 11 seconds in the 0-62[/quote] Both options made me very sad. Seriously though, you don't have Ford Focus' there?
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Edited by Dropship dude: 3/22/2013 5:13:45 PMWe do, but holy hell what do you take me for, a 30-year-old woman? The Focus, despite being a cracking car, is not something a 20-year-old should be driving. They're reserved for families. These are the cars I was on about ^
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A Focus is a girl's car? You have got to be kidding me. They can be tuned to have really great power for their size, and there are tons of aftermarket things to customize them. As opposed to the Golf, for me there is no contest. Focus > VW all day any day. It isn't in the Audi's snobbery realm, but will last as long if not longer.
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Edited by Dropship dude: 3/22/2013 5:53:29 PMIf you tune a car over here in the UK, your insurance company will massacre you. I got a quote to see what a tuned car would do to my bank balance. A 1.6L Focus Titanium model from 2006 would cost me £665 to insure. A tuned one? Just chipping it at less than 10% makes insurance £2000. -blam!-. That. In addition, of the 100-or-so companies a comparison site was checking, only FOUR of them would quote a modified car. And the Focus over here, unless it's the ST or RS, is a woman's car. My Mum has one. She's nearly 50. That says enough for me.
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People of all ages have them here. Tuning costs more to insure. Wow. I did all kinds of aftermarket exhaust, intake, tuner to my Cobra. Insurance company never even asked.
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That's just it, our country is so shit to be a car owner in. Ya know, we pay a yearly tax on our cars just to allow us to have them on the road, that's AFTER insurance and VAT paid on the car. They claim it is to upkeep the roads, but -blam!- me sideways I've never driven on worse roads than those in England. Just up the road from my Dad's house, the road has actually failed and sunk in, likely due to the excessive rain. The solution to the failure? They just added more tarmac on top to "fill it in", but they did such a shit job that it's now WORSE than if it weren't filled. This country is a joke.
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You can't really go wrong with a VW, and I'm sure the Audi would be decent too, although my dad's A4 is a pretty boring car. I have a Citroen and have no complaints on build quality though.
