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Buying an estate - recommendations?
We need to replace our 2006 Ford Mondeo Estate, with something similar, but newer.
A Skoda Octavia has been suggested by a friend as has the Volkswagen Passat. It will mostly be trundling up and down the motorway on my commute (50 miles a day) so ideally we wamt something fairly economical but still a reasonable amount of power. Budget is about £10,000 plus trade in for the Mondeo, what do you suggest?
A Skoda Octavia has been suggested by a friend as has the Volkswagen Passat. It will mostly be trundling up and down the motorway on my commute (50 miles a day) so ideally we wamt something fairly economical but still a reasonable amount of power. Budget is about £10,000 plus trade in for the Mondeo, what do you suggest?
Asked on 11 March 2014 by Nick O'Connell
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Honest John
So you don't mean new? You mean used 2nd rather than 3rd generation Octavia estate. Best to avoid the lacklustre and problematic 1.6TDI. A 1.4 TSI might suit, but this with have the 'old' chain cam 1.4TSI 122 rather than the current belt cam EA211 1.4TSI 122. More on Octavias in the entry in www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar
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