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£4-6k doesn't buy much these days

"So now I'm looking out for a £4-6k diesel car. This is the pick of the crop off Autotrader. Nothing is shouting at me as the VFM option"

My lovely well serviced E320cdi avantagarde was traded in for £4600. 103,000 miles, comand, cream leather, four newish tyre and rear park sensors. I didn't bother with listing it for sale in the forum, very little seems to sell from the classifiedssection.
Look at my album to see it. It will soon be in auction somewhere. Lots like it out there.
 
wemorgan said:
A 2006 Civic 2.2 CTDI is now parked on the driveway :) Job done for at least 2 years I hope.

On the drive home from the dealer I averaged ~55mpg. I'll be very happy with that economy if it remains. Might even try to push 60 one day.
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70mpg on the drive home from the petrol station :)

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The previous tank averaged 59mpg (full to full calculation)
 
I love my 2004 CLK 270 CDI but for fantastic value for money my last motor was a Jaguar X type 2 litre Diesel with full leather, it was reliable, cheap to run, in a low road tax band, looked good, some of them have the option of a folding rear seat and I got a good price when I sold it on with 103k miles.
You could get a good one between £4-6K
 
I got about 55 on average in mine, but it only really did long journeys. Impressive to see 70mpg up over a decent range Will.
 
Dieselman said:
I'm surprised. I know two people who have/had them and got mid 40's.
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Me too. A friend with an Accord with the same engine said he found it difficult to achieve over 40mpg.

But the official figures are 55mpg (combined) so I had faith the car was good give decent economy.

I doubt I'll be able to maintain 70mpg for a whole tank, but 60mpg seems doable.
 
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