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Good Commute car Maynooth To Athlone Mon-Fri

  • 08-07-2015 2:55pm
    #1
    MrTom1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭


    Hi All looking to know you thoughts, Girlfriend going to college in athlone and will be commuting Mon To Fri up and down. What sort of car with a 2K budget would you buy if it was yourself?


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  • #2
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭pippip


    Any restrictions to engine size? i.e. has she full licence.

    I'd be making sure it has cruise control as that road is extremely boring.


  • #3
    MrTom1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭MrTom1


    yep full licence and all, i drove it last weekend took me 40mins :cool: but she is a sunday driver so shes looking something that is good on fuel, doesnt matter what it looks like


  • #4
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    I'd be looking at something in the size of a diesel Passat. She wants something quiet and comfy to stop herself getting tired on the way home. Think of a winter evening, pitch dark and lashing rain, you don't want to be sitting in a rattly, loud box thats going full blast at 120 kmh.

    Had a 2004 100 bhp 1.9 for a while and it would get 45-48 mpg at 120kmh on a run like that. Cruise control would be a benefit.

    BTW the clampers in AIT are fairly harsh but an annual parking permit is €20. After 9 most of the free parking is occupied, the pay car park needs €3 in coins.


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