Cheap do-it-all car

[100%Bitch]

I'm obviously missing something here . OP asks for 'Cheap do it all car' ...not 'cheap do it all Mercedes Benz' (doesn't exist)

IMHO the 1.8 litre petrol Astra estate in the same advert group as the MB would be a far better option .

Now you're just talking silly. Me, in an Astra?!?!?!

 

[100%Bitch]

The above was what I thought and what flagged a Saab....
Astra is a fair bit smaller

Sorry, can't drive a Saab. I'm a financial adviser, not a boring grey accountant.

 

[E55BOF]

My last car before I started with Mercedes nine years ago was a SAAB 9-5 Aero estate. That was a cracking car.

I'm not a boring grey anything; I don't care for grey cars, either. SAABs were typically driven by architects, not accountants, who tended to have Volvos at the upper end, and something dull, reliable and Japanese - Nissans, say? - at the lower end. Some even had motor caravans...

 

[DucatiEVO]

Shouldn't say this on here, but you could consider a Saab 9-5 estate from a capable 1.9tid to a pokey 2.3 HOT, several years younger, with more modern creature comforts and the same load space, give or take.

Friend bought one (diesel) as a stop gap in lockdown and it's stayed as the tip trip hero, big stuff carrier and even serving as muddy sons football team mover.

It's not a Mercedes admittedly.....

I looked at the Saab's also, they do a nice aero estate which looks great and is punchy, but some do have issues with the bulkhead cracking and it's not easy to spot until it's too late.

 

[100%Bitch]

My last car before I started with Mercedes nine years ago was a SAAB 9-5 Aero estate. That was a cracking car.

I'm not a boring grey anything; I don't care for grey cars, either. SAABs were typically driven by architects, not accountants, who tended to have Volvos at the upper end, and something dull, reliable and Japanese - Nissans, say? - at the lower end. Some even had motor caravans...

 

[DucatiEVO]

My last car before I started with Mercedes nine years ago was a SAAB 9-5 Aero estate. That was a cracking car.

I'm not a boring grey anything; I don't care for grey cars, either. SAABs were typically driven by architects, not accountants, who tended to have Volvos at the upper end, and something dull, reliable and Japanese - Nissans, say? - at the lower end. Some even had motor caravans...

Last architect I used drove a c63-AMG estate! lol

 

[E55BOF]

I looked at the Saab's also, they do a nice aero estate which looks great and is punchy, but some do have issues with the bulkhead cracking and it's not easy to spot until it's too late.

That's the Cavalier-based 9-3; the 9-5 was a real SAAB and did not have the problem.

 

[JHS]

I still miss my Honda Civic Estate...............

 

[ChipChop]

In these strange times it could well be best to defer looking for a cheap do it all car. The £3000 e320 cdi estate posted by the OP in reality is a car worth £1000 not £3000. Wait until the next round of energy price caps are introduced in October 2022 and you may well find cars will be becoming a lot cheaper as the cost of living crisis comes to a head.

 

[fabes]

Or not.....
Supply of new cars won't be back to normal, churn will maintain some demand and some people will or will have to financially downsize, including their cars.
Some of these older EU4 diesels will do decent mpg, can be cheap to maintain, so may come back in vogue.

Be interesting to watch

 

[m80]

Some of these older EU4 diesels will do decent mpg, can be cheap to maintain

and be more reliable due to less complexities, especially if they don't have, what for many was an option of, the DPF system.

 

[ChipChop]

and be more reliable due to less complexities, especially if they don't have, what for many was an option of, the DPF system.

I presume at some point in the near future, post 2030 perhaps, the taxation on Euro1/2/3/4/5 diesels will become prohibitive. You know to save the planet.

The classic car (40+ years old no RFD or MOT) rule being the only exemption to these eco-lunatic rules. Pre 1990 diesel cars may take on a whole new life as cheap to run cars post 2030, just watch out for the eco-dimwit tyre slashers.

 

[100%Bitch]

There's been some interesting ideas on here, but we've bought a car.

It's a 1994 S124 E280. Nothing like what we were looking for, but that's normal for us when we're car hunting.

 

[Jobsworth]

Last architect I used drove a c63-AMG estate! lol

Hmmm, I have a customer who’s an architect, drives a C63 estate…

 

[DucatiEVO]

Hmmm, I have a customer who’s an architect, drives a C63 estate…

This guys name is Duncan

 

[Jobsworth]

This guys name is Duncan

They must have moved on from Saabs then

My chap is called Doug