British Auto Thread

Anything French.

ford focus mk2 diesel
its shit dont get one, get a petrol mk1

next best is something like a 500 twinair or UP! TSI, or something with a 1.2 turbo, as maybe you could stretched to a 100BHP 1.4, as anything over a 1.5 diesel is expensive, for new drivers.

I think my next car will probably be a Ford Fiesta, I would love the ST model but really expensive and insurance is ridiculous.

look for the Zetec S, same styling but, less oomph, and available with a diesel to lower the insurance.

The one I'm looking at currently is this one

autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201712202181810?make=FORD&model=FIESTA

£1k/yr without box

I think I've heard that diesel engines can be quite loud though with standard driving, but it seems Diesel fits my choice as I need something quite practical for the time being, but I also want something really sporty that looks great and sounds great.

i would say that's a lot but, i've been quoted £650 for my 74BHP seat Mii.

if you go above 3k diesels are loud and annoying, but if revs are low they aren't too bad, and that's how they like to be driven, revs low always in peak torque, but you could try to find the 1.0 ecoboost, fiesta, but they are expensive, as the cheapest i've seen is £6500.

well most of my drives will be over 3k anyways as my trip to work is mostly on a dual carriageway

There's this 1.25L petrol version motors.co.uk/car-47962541/?i=5&m=srs

>really want an XK8
>too emotionally and financially invested in my rx7 to sell it at a loss and trade up
>tfw I'm going to have to wait a long time to buy 400hp British luxu-missile

Cheap insurance and exciting don't go together, especially if you're under 25, double especially if it's your first car.

>tfw 2nd car
>tfw 21 soon
>tfw all insurance is around 2k

oh here is a british truck.

>2014 reg
>1.25L Zetec
>56k miles
>5.5k cost, 4.9k part ex'ing my ca
>940/yr insurance no telematic box

worth y/n?

y tho, its a shitty fiesta

We occasionally have a /brit/ general thread lurking about when I can be arsed to put one up.

We have quite an active slackchat, and we're planning on a peak district drive at some point.

This was the last thread: archive.4plebs.org/o/thread/18468220/
As per that thread, leave your email (either your own or a throwaway) and we can add you into the slack if you so wish. Otherwise just keep an eye out for /brit/ generals when/if I put one up.

Also mah car - 1994 Toyota Starlet GT Turbo

Why is it shitty? What else would you recommend.

Set your insurance to start when you turn 21, and put an experienced 2nd driver on your policy. I've just got quoted less than 2k for a Polo BlueGT with no box, even though I've had my license less than a year and in a shit postcode.

Nearly anything can be registered in the UK. It is one of the most relaxed places in the world for well put together cars.
You should join Brit/o/ lad we do drag racing meets and such like in the summer.
Sorry bud you're a kid and can't drive. Not being sarcastic, you're probably shit at it.
Trucks are great and you are an underaged bench racing mug.
Diesel owners about to get cucked this year
Possibly ugliest poster in the thread.
If you are making a loss on an RX-7 in the current market you should probably learn to negotiate
>above average mileage
>fwd
>1.25
NO

V8 ONLY

some of them was me being 21 and 2 experienced drivers, however they where mostly a lot sportier as in 150 bhp+ or 1.8L + engine.

Well recommend me a nice / modern car as in 2013+ that has a better engine and bhp that I can get insured for around 1k/yr, I'm 20 years old and 1 year no claims

Can you live with a black box? Might be the only way. You could get a GPS blocker but you'll be fucked if you have a crash.

I'd rather just be without one, been a pain in the arse with my current car.

is it really that much better than the car you have atm? you would be much better getting an older fiesta with low miles and saving your money until you can afford something nicer

Why do you need all of those qualifications. Get something really cheap and shit and put up with it until you can get something RWD and not shit. Ding ding ding

Cheaper car then

pic related is my current car

That car is garbage but presumably cheap enough to run. Drive it and ignore it's shitness while saving for something fun, don't jump into something else because it's modern. The fiesta you posted is even less fun to drive than an old corsa

Got any questions about classic British cars I'm here to help, I work at a restoration shop specializing in British cars. Currently in the middle of 3 Austin-Healey restorations and an MG TF.

Pic related, my work.

Looks good bud this is my daily

Suck it up and wait is the only real solution. After you hit 25, and with a few years no-claims under your belt, your premiums will go down a huge amount. At the end of the day, if you want more power, you're going to pay more for insurance. There's no getting around that.

What would you recommend? I'm on 1.2k a month before tax/expenses and around 750 a month after, saving maybes 600-650 a month, it will take me a long ass time to save up for anything over 6-7k. I have a bit over 1k saved and either part ex'ing my current for 600 or selling it for maybes pushing 1k

can someone convince me cars from the 60s are deathtraps in every way?

I wanna get a cool camper van but I'm starting to realize that function>style

I'm really not arsed about having a standard hatchback car with sub 100bhp or a 1.2L engine, I just want something that looks nice and feels modern.

Whatever you buy will still be shit right now. Just wait. If you find someone who will pay £1000 for a Corsa-C then you bite their hand off

You are too dumb to keep a 60s car legal and safe.

...

well if I could afford an unreal car hell I would but I can't so I'm pretty much stuck with shit cars until I land a better job.

Mate ive got a 64 plate polo that will make you cream for 225 of those pounds per month.

age / years driving?

1.2 tsi 10k miles dab aux mp3 £20 tax ins group 15 is that about right?

Mate no ill sell you that if you want it

What you want costs money, because you pay for what you get. You can pick up a half decent W203 C-Class or an E46 3-series for around the £3k mark if you really want to look richer than you are, and in honestly they're the most car you're going to get for that kind of money, but beyond that, there's not a great deal I can recommend.

Get a 14 plate corsa then, cheap and shit but will feel modern.

feel that i'm almost 26 and still expensive for my first car
miatas are a cheaper way to have fun, still around £1k for insurance, also finding a hatch with a decent chassis, like a mini, fiesta, swift, and UP! can be cheaper.

Remapped 2.0tdi golf
Insurance was £2200 first year because i've been banned but was £1400 this year

CUTE

look i drive a British made truck its a real good truck.

Good British Trucks

>my mum bought this piece of shit for £400 (exactly the same as pic but not mine) when I turned 18 while I was away without even me getting the chance to look at it
>exhaust fell off not long after I started driving it - some £200 spent
>clutch wore out and failed - another £400 spent
>failed its MOT on fucking brake shoes when they were just fine - £250

I only got my license last year and haven't even been treating it badly in any way, yet she's getting everything she deserves for not allowing me to even look at it

Thankfully my insurance went down by £500 after driving for nearly a year so I'm having it in my name to which I can sell it with its new parts and hopefully the next owner won't have to endure the shit I have.

Still like the car and is fun to drive though

Subaru :)

1988 E30 316: 4cyl, 1.8L, carbed & RWD. I know it's the most entry-level of entry-level BMWs, but she's in great shape and I love BTFOing kids in brand new 1.0L shitboxes. Insurance was actually decent for an 18 year old.

Fucking iPhone

whats insurance like on these

I'm paying £2200 yearly, but I've been driving for less than a year, so not bad at all. Gotta go through those specialists tho.

I've got one of these. 1.4 litre. cost me like £500. not overly fast or overly reliable but 1000x nicer to daily than a similarly priced corsa or 206 etc. insurance was 1300 first year and 800 second year

fucking madman did you skip the 1.0 Corsa stage and go straight to an e30?

I guess lol, but I learnt on a Citroen C1 and drove that for a few months while I was waiting for the perfect car to come up. The ad for the E30 said it was owned by one disabled dude for the car's whole life (backed up by ownership docs) so I doubt it was thrashed. Only 96000 miles as well, so I suppose I was lucky to find it.

nice dude my first was an e30 316 too, although i had the touring for maximum sheddage

would love another

Yeah man, they're great cars. The 4 cylinder is rev happy and has just the right balance of power and MPGs for a car like that - slow car fast meme and all that. I'm trying to persuade my parents to get a touring to haul the dogs around in :)

>that house
>that car
chav detected

Mazda 2 sport

Steering and gear change of an MX5. Shame its 1.5 only gets 35 mpg on a 1000kg car. Honestly wish they'd made an MPS version of the 2, a turbocharged 1.5 with 150 or so would have been amazing

£3k BM or Merc is such a dumb idea, you'll spend half the car's value in maintanance each year unless you're mechanically proficient

the house is really nice inside, it's just the outside of the Bungalow looks horrendous, and I'm far from a chav

Yooooooo do you live in south Manchester?
Those houses are practically identical to where I moved out of last year

Fastest motha on the touge reporting in.

Unless it's wet.

Or cold.

Or bumpy.

Or gravely.

Fiesta Zetec S or Metal if you are willing to pay a bit more to actually buy the car. I'm paying a grand for my Metal at 22 with 0 NCB

fuck that i would have just scrapped it for beer money, also insurance is fucking expensive as shit on cheap shitboxes.

The 1.25 in the Mk7 and Mk6 is the most ridiculously anaemic engine imaginable. I had a Mk6 with the same engine and it struggled to no end, in a heavier Mk7 it would be honestly dreadful. Shell out slightly more and get it with a 1.6

pretty stoked i get one of these delivered tomorrow, but red and 3rd, a 74PS 3-pot sewing machine

but still kinda gutted i couldn't quite stretch to a UP exclamation mark.

Depends which level of tune it has, the 1.25 varies from 59 to 82 bhp.

>74ps
Scratch what I said about the 1.25 Duratec, that's a good 10bhp worse

You should've got the citigo

In my Mk6 it was 79 I think which was still appalling. It was fine in earlier versions of the Fiesta which weighed less.
If you wanted to go up any significant hills at 40ish you had to be flooring it in 3rd, and that was with just me in it.

They should stick a 1.2tsi in it and call it the Mii Cupra

That shit is why I welcome all the little turbo units getting put into new small cars. The extra torque and power is like night and day, whilst retaining small displacement mpgs

i looked it one, but it was £1300 more and only had the 59PS engine.
i've thought about sticking a turbo in it, but might just look at seeing if it can get chipped to at least 90PS.
also i'd love a Mii Cupra, but VW won't allow it yet as it'll eat in to sales of the UP! GTi.

the cheapest 1.6L petrol manual fiesta 2013+ is like 7.5k, I might aswell just save up the extra 1.5k and get a 65/16 reg civic

Yeah, I haven't driven the 1.0l Ecoboost Fiesta but by all accounts it's an entirely capable engine, and in terms of performance shits all over the old 1.25
The 1.6 Duratec is a cracking engine though, well capable of 160+bhp without any forced induction so it's a shame to see it dropped

>the cheapest 1.6L petrol manual fiesta 2013+ is like 7.5k
How the fuck? I paid 6.5k for my 2012 which was a limited edition one with a decked interior and 140bhp

What was the mileage?

brexit and webuyanycar, both of them fucked used car prices,

40k, one previous owner

>i've thought about sticking a turbo in it

If you could afford that you might as well have gotten a Polo GTI. Putting a turbo in a car will double the insurance

I bought it 5 months ago

I'm looking at autotrader and motors what websites would you recommend to use for used cars?

autotrader has the best filters
ebay and gumtree are alright but more risky

i got lost down a youtube hole which gave that idea, but it'd probably be easier to find a scrapped TSI, and try and swap the engines.

autotrader, also look around carshop and evans halshaw just incase they have something on clearance.

No senpai, that was Burnley.

Prolly same building company innit

that very nice mate.
Im sure you are also grateful to here for buying you a car, what are you looking at next?

I am proud to have not too long ago picked up one of the only non trashed s13's in the country. Real credit to PO's.