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Hi all. Currently have a 58-reg 2.2 Tdci S-Max. I can't afford the finance (or fuel, to be honest) on it any more due to job circumstances so I'm selling it, paying off the finances and getting something cheaper to run for a while.
I work from home so do very few miles at present. If that changes I'll worry about changing the car again then. However I do quite a few small journies of 5 to 20 miles several times a week (with most of the family in the car) and maybe once a month a longer ones of > 100. Also 3 or 4 trips to Devon for family visits/holidays each year with roofbox and surfboard on top. Overall mileage probably well less than 10k per annum, with 70% of that being short-ish journies.
Whole family is very tall. I'm 6'5", daughters are both 6'-ish and have long legs. We use most of the S-Max boot space when doing trips here & there so need to have a good amount of room.
When I bought the S-Max last year I did the test of "sitting behind myself" by setting the driving seat to a comfortable position and then getting into the passenger seat behind. In doing so (these were for new vehicles, mind you, so older ones may have different dimensions) I found that the Nissan Qashcai+2 was tiny and I could barely get my knees in, the Insignia was plenty big, the Passat was very small - similar to Qashcai) although the Touran had good room, the Zafira also had good room and I think the Mondeo did as well.
I need something where new tyres don't cost the earth like the daft S-max 245/45/18s, the cost to fix things/spares aren't extortionate if/when something goes wrong, doesn't need startling performance as fuel economy is more important than performance at present and is pretty reliable generally.
Creature comforts: Air con and cruise control are pretty much essential. I know, I know... it's just those small luxuries that I'd really struggle to do without.
Budget - dunno... £5k-ish?
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