Budget of about €3,500

Ri na hEireann

I'm looking to move on from the pangs of embarrassment suffered through ferrying myself around in a 2000 Lanos.

The budget can stretch to around €3,500, possibly €4,000 if I hold off for a couple of months. I'm open to all sorts of suggestions but I do a fair bit of mileage with work so would be looking to keep the engine size at 1.4 if it's a petrol (I'm also under the age of 25 until the next policy renewal)

My main priority is reliability so I was leaning towards a Corolla or something similar.

I stumbled across this earlier....any thoughts? Too good to be true, or is there issues with these models?

http://www.carzone.ie/search/MINI/Hatch/Cooper-D/201431225814380/advert?channel=CARS

Moneymaker

Corolla is your best bet.

I seem to tell that to everyone who asks for advice on a car. :pac:

But no, really. For day to day motoring, you can't beat the Corolla for reliability, build quality and a pretty decent drive from a 1.4 engine.

Far better then the obscene price you'd pay for a similar Golf(with a vastly inferior engine).

Run a mile from that Mini. Do you even need to be told? 2009 for less then 4k? Um, ok. Numberplate obscured, one picture, outlandish claims of service history. Come on.

bazz26

That is an old scam, you cannot buy a 5 year old MINI for under €4k.

toyotaavensis

+1 for the corolla or maybe a focus