The Kia 1.1 is not very powerfu according to owners revues.

I got a petrol 89 hp as i cannot justify the mileage and usage pattern of my driving (dpf)

It was £7995 at a year old, rio2 with aircon and all the toys (well most of them) and that saving £4500 against a new one will pay for a lot of fuel and got a genuine (brim to brim) on a 600 milw round trip, its about 40ish around town, but use it less now as have bus pass.

£30 ved group 4 insurance etc

there are lots of small cars available but this one has reliable 4 cylinder chain cam engine and naturally the balance of the 7 year warranty.

As Oli rag says can you justify the extra expense and worries?

Selling a perfectly good car whose only "fault" is failing to meet your economy expectations and buying a new car with supposedly better mpg will never save you money plus the new car will almost certainly also fail to meet your mpg expectations.

Lets assume your Fiesta is doing 40 mpg and you do 15,000 miles a year. If you buy one of your alternative cars you may well increase your economy to 55 mpg but you will never know until you try it over several months.

Using the above figures the Fiesta will be costing you £1773 in fuel, an alternative £1351 (at todays prices). That is a £442 a year saving.

How much is it going to cost you to swap cars. If you are lucky and it only costs you £2000 its going to take over 4 years before you see any savings. Obviously if you do more miles it will be quicker but less miles and it will take longer. But I expect it will cost much more than £2000 to change.

If you do less than 15,000 miles a year forget diesels.

Ignore insurance groups and only rely on quotes for actual costs. The groups are just guides.

Edited by skidpan on 17/02/2015 at 10:46