Which Mpv 10K to spend

Psygnosis

Hi,

I've now sold my Ford Mondeo privately. So need to purchase a decent MPV with large boot space as I will have 3 kids under 2 years of age soon.
The criteria I'm looking for are as follows
1 Very Large Boot
2 The middle row of seats to be able to take 3 baby seats (Zafira and Mazda5 are out)
3 Would prefer something with good MPG so thinking Diesel.
4 Reliability is also a factor as it will be the main car.

The car will get good runs down from Dublin to Cork every 2 months or so and maybe Donegal 2 or 3 times a year. Other than that it will do a 6 mile round journey 5 days a week, and weekends a bit more.
Working out my mileage for the last 4 years it was 65kms. I envisage this will go up though.

Cars I've spotted which I like are the C4 Grand Picasso and the SMAX not gone on the Verso or VW Touran. I test drove a FRV and the boot was too small.

Would prefer 2008 but its not essential if the car is good.

http://www.jjbyrnecarsales.com/used-cars/Citroen/C4-Grand-Picasso/PICASSO-7/36513758846808860/

Went to see this one but he offered me crap money for my car and the place was packed so didnt stick around but car looks well
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Citroen/C4-Grand-Picasso/PICASSO-/36313711397782930/advert?channel=CARS

http://www.carsireland.ie/detail.php?ad_id=947009&r=s.php%3Fm%3D16%26o%3D2204%26f%3D2%26t%3D1%26pp%3D50%26g%3D0
Not sure on the price on this

Smax private
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Ford/S-Max/ZETEC-1./201329216020188/advert?channel=CARS

NIMAN

I'm in the same situation as yourself at present, and am edging towards an FR-V to be honest (boot big enough for me).

Only thing I would say, if most of your driving is short distances, you may cause damage to the car before it gets the long runs? I'm no expert on all this technical stuff, but from all the reading I have done, and we will only be doing a lot of short runs, we have decided to go for petrol.

Psygnosis

NIMAN wrote: »

I'm in the same situation as yourself at present, and am edging towards an FR-V to be honest (boot big enough for me).

Only thing I would say, if most of your driving is short distances, you may cause damage to the car before it gets the long runs? I'm no expert on all this technical stuff, but from all the reading I have done, and we will only be doing a lot of short runs, we have decided to go for petrol.

I liked the frv all right quite rare to find a good one though. I'd done similar driving in my Mondeo and it never missed a beat although it was very well looked after car

Psygnosis

Also wondering what % discount could I haggle for being a cash buyer would 20% be realistic

bazz26

Psygnosis wrote: »

Also wondering what % discount could I haggle for being a cash buyer would 20% be realistic

There is no set formula. It all depends how keenly priced the car is to begin with against similar cars and how much the car owes the dealer in order for him to make a profit on it's sale.

NIMAN

Chatting to a few dealers over recent months about cars the biggest discount I was ever offered was 10% of the price. Majority were around the 5% mark.