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Family/ Learner car compromise
My daughter turns 17 later this year and will start learning to drive.
We run a Toyota Auris 1.6 and while I think it would be ok to learn in I suspect the insurance may be prohibitively expensive, so we're looking at smaller engined cars.
We need 5 seats and 5 doors so have discounted the C1/Aygo/KA size and are looking at Jazz / Polo / Fiesta / Clio type cars.
In your opinion is there a stand out car in that size that fulfils the 5 seat, 5 door family car role as well as being good to learn in and not excessively expensive to ensure.
We run a Toyota Auris 1.6 and while I think it would be ok to learn in I suspect the insurance may be prohibitively expensive, so we're looking at smaller engined cars.
We need 5 seats and 5 doors so have discounted the C1/Aygo/KA size and are looking at Jazz / Polo / Fiesta / Clio type cars.
In your opinion is there a stand out car in that size that fulfils the 5 seat, 5 door family car role as well as being good to learn in and not excessively expensive to ensure.
Asked on 22 June 2011 by Oxford Dave
Answered by
Honest John
Hyundai i10 1.2 Classic at £6,995.
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