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6th March 2012, 09:58 PM
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What kind of miles will you be doing? All motorway?
Might even be worth looking at a well-specced 'city car' with a silly little diesel engine that'll give a million miles to the gallon and be OK to live in.
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6th March 2012, 10:23 PM
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6th March 2012, 10:50 PM
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Not sure poke is such an issue on a commuter.
I'd go for MPG, Comfort/quietness and Safety. One of those long legged A4 diesels or similar from the vast VAG range. Or, like you said Beemers. I too don't buy new, and if you can avoid finance in whatever guise they dress it up, you'll not have the banks cut eating your hard earned cash. Keep something fun for the weekends... Like an S6 Plus perhaps 
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7th March 2012, 09:57 AM
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It will be 80% motorway miles, by poke I mean a 2.0 D and 150 BHP with a decent torquey turbo'd engine at least. I drove my 320D to Holland and back and it was perfect, the right amount of power. Couldn't do with any less really though. A D3 TDI commute car and an E39 M5 V8 toy would be a bloody good combo.
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#7
7th March 2012, 12:48 PM
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Seat Leon/A3/Golf range with low-ish powered diesel - loads available ex-lease at auctions for buttons. The vast majority get serviced on time and you can soon rule out any turds at auction just by looking round them and ignoring the scruffy ones.
Go for a manual if your route isn't too congested - less to go wrong and if it costs you a clutch during your ownership it won't break the bank. Learn to drive it in a way that reduces wear and tear and you'll have lower repair bills as a result. The old PD 1.9 will go on for 200k miles with relative ease and the only nightmare scenario is an injector failing which will cost you a leg, unless VW group are still paying out for any repairs needed as they were last year? The later 2.0 CR diesel is much nicer than the PD but it's also much newer. If you really want that one then the best home for it is an Octavia vRS. I'd be tempted to buy at 3 years old and aim to keep it for 3 years or less at those kind of miles. Take out roadside assistance with homestart etc so you're never left in the lurch and a warranty if you can get one at that annual mileage. If you can live with rent-a-shed interiors then go for something French (PSA, not Renault) or Ford and run it till it dies, then buy another. A million taxi drivers can't be wrong.......
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