Zound
///Member
Hi Fanatics,
Looking for a car to replace my sisters 2013 Hyundai i10. The reason for changing is my father recently came across a new crash test report where the i10 did not pass. That and in combination with seeing a couple accidents involving these cars, I and my family simply do not believe my sister should be driving one.
My father and I are very handy with a wrench and will DIY, service and repair almost anything, heck we even tackled doing valve stem seal replacement with the head on, on his E60 525i (N52).
So the question is, what do we look for?
It is restricted to BMW and Mini type cars because I have Rheingold and that makes diagnostics and repair a breeze.
My sister is 20 years old and travels to university every day doing approximately 40km a day. The trip consists of a little bit of traffic but a fair amount of highway driving too. Probably 60/40 highway/town.
She is not a confident or experienced driver yet, so spatial concerns are a factor and thus, a small-ish car would be preferred, however, she is completely competent driving my fathers E60 (Manual) around.
We are expecting to sell the i10 for about 80k and is thus the subsequent budget for the replacement.
So far we have been looking at 116i, 118i, 120i, E46 320i, E46 320D, Mini Cooper R50, was even looking at a Z3 2.8!
My mother owns an R56 Cooper and it is a fantastic car with fantastic fuel consumption (7litres/100km) but ,unfortunately, the R56's seem to be a bit out of the budget.
So, what would you buy?
Looking for a car to replace my sisters 2013 Hyundai i10. The reason for changing is my father recently came across a new crash test report where the i10 did not pass. That and in combination with seeing a couple accidents involving these cars, I and my family simply do not believe my sister should be driving one.
My father and I are very handy with a wrench and will DIY, service and repair almost anything, heck we even tackled doing valve stem seal replacement with the head on, on his E60 525i (N52).
So the question is, what do we look for?
It is restricted to BMW and Mini type cars because I have Rheingold and that makes diagnostics and repair a breeze.
My sister is 20 years old and travels to university every day doing approximately 40km a day. The trip consists of a little bit of traffic but a fair amount of highway driving too. Probably 60/40 highway/town.
She is not a confident or experienced driver yet, so spatial concerns are a factor and thus, a small-ish car would be preferred, however, she is completely competent driving my fathers E60 (Manual) around.
We are expecting to sell the i10 for about 80k and is thus the subsequent budget for the replacement.
So far we have been looking at 116i, 118i, 120i, E46 320i, E46 320D, Mini Cooper R50, was even looking at a Z3 2.8!
My mother owns an R56 Cooper and it is a fantastic car with fantastic fuel consumption (7litres/100km) but ,unfortunately, the R56's seem to be a bit out of the budget.
So, what would you buy?
