Nissan Micra, Suzuki Alto or Swift?

itarumaa

Hi,

I think I will at least try to sell my current Daewoo Matiz car, since it has given me too much problems.

But what to get next, I would like to buy Japanise under 1l, year around 98-00 and price around 2000-3000 euros.

So what should I pick?

Micra, Suziki Alto or Swift,

maybe not any point to speak about looks, none of them are really nice to the eye, but what would be good deal to buy. I was thinking automatic Micra, but they are quite expensive.

I had a quote for Polo 1.4l, but that car would bring me 240e extra for insurance and around 150e for roadtax = 381e per year extra, so no point to get over 1l car. You can buy a lot of petrol for 380 euros.

Matiz would be ok if that would stay in the road without fixing it all the time! I drive around 30miles in day in backroads so I really want something that does not break down. Another must is Immobilizer, I would not like to buy a car without, Power steering is a plus as well.

colm_mcm

Micra would be the best all rounder of the three

Volvoboy

Always think of the micra as the 00's answer to the 60's mini, great little cars go for ever and parts are plentyful fairly easy to work on and low on ins and petrol.



-VB-

colm_mcm

only the mini was cool

ballooba

colm_mcm wrote:

only the mini was cool

I was reading that post thinking, were Minis really nerdy in the 60s and did they induce incontrollable bouts of rage back then. Minis were quick, no?

colm_mcm

to be fair, minis were deeply uncool until John Cooper and the Italian Job got people to like them!

unkel

ballooba wrote:

Minis were quick, no?

No. The original Mini did 0-60MPH in about 30s using all of its 34BHP

Of course there were quicker versions later. The first Mini Cooper S had 70BHP...