Looking to buy a second car to only use 4 days a week, solely for the trip to and from work, as it's not the main family car and is just for my commute the budget is low (£1200ish hopefully)
The round trip is 80 miles (on a generally clear Motorway stretch).
Any advice on something not too small (wouldn't feel safe on the motorway everyday in a diddy little thing) that's decent on fuel (specifically taking into account that sort of run) and reasonably reliable? Thinking of an '03 Focus (mainly because there's so many of them under the £1500 mark) but have never had one, any pitfalls I should look for on them?
Or any advice on something better?
Cheers
No pitfalls - I used to do 120 mile round trip each day to work (which shrank to just under 80 miles per day after a time) in a 1.6L petrol 52 plate Focus LX, which is the bog standard one. It was great. I learnt to drive in it, and then Mr B gave it to me and bought another car. I put about 40k on it and px'd it when it hit about 97k for a larger car. Comfy. I swapped the radio out for a DAB unit too - made the drive much more fun!
I never had any problems with it. I reckon it'd be hard to find a better medium-sized car with such reasonable running costs. It had decent mpg (and yes, I probably should have had a diesel at about 2.5k miles a month!) and crucially, low insurance.
I only px'd it because I found that I was a secret petrolhead and needed more horsepower ;-)
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