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First car for missus

  • 26-08-2020 12:26pm
    #1
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,449 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    The wife is looking for a first car as shes learning to drive.

    She needs 5 doors for the kids and petrol as there wont be that many long trips.

    We've a budget of between 7 and 9 grand.

    Any suggestions?


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  • #2
    micks_address
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭micks_address


    I'd suggest Honda Jazz. Roomier than you imagine. Easy to drive..

    Honda petrols bullet proof
    Vicxas wrote: »
    Hi all,

    The wife is looking for a first car as shes learning to drive.

    She needs 5 doors for the kids and petrol as there wont be that many long trips.

    We've a budget of between 7 and 9 grand.

    Any suggestions?


  • #3
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    How many kids? You still carting buggies and stuff?


  • #4
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    How many kids? You still carting buggies and stuff?

    If your wife can’t drive, or is only learning, I wouldn’t let her drive the kids around. Apart from being at much higher risk of being in a crash, they are a massive distraction.

    Lots of bumf online about people carriers being badly pritected except for head on crashes & I aways get the chills when I see cars with basically babies in the booth - many prangs are rear hits - you don’t want your children to be in what is typically the booth and gad almost
    no crumple room.


  • #5
    copper04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭copper04


    Toyota Yaris. Very easy car for first time driver. Very reliable and good fuel consumption. We have a 99 petrol Yaris for over 20 years and to this day not even a bulb has gone faulty. Newer ones don't have as much space for tall driver.
    Good luck with whatever you choose.


  • #6
    Liamo57
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭Liamo57


    Astra hatchback is very reliable. 5000 would get a very decent car


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  • #7
    Joey321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭Joey321


    Very dangerous if only learning especially with kids in the car, not to mention it is illegal, learner drivers have to be accompanied by a person with a full driving licence.


  • #8
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,449 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Joey321 wrote: »
    Very dangerous if only learning especially with kids in the car, not to mention it is illegal, learner drivers have to be accompanied by a person with a full driving licence.

    I will be in the car with her while shes driving, as will the kids. She wont be unaccompanied at any time. But as anyone with kids will tell you its hard to get time away from them


  • #9
    Joey321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭Joey321


    @vicxas, cant go wrong with a toyota yaris for first car, small and very reliable, a little bit bigger would be the corolla, both very reliable cars.


  • #10
    ams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭ams


    micks_address wrote: »
    I'd suggest Honda Jazz. Roomier than you imagine. Easy to drive..

    Honda petrols bullet proof

    was going to suggest also - I am a learner and I find mine easy to drive - very forgiving!


  • #11
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Porsche 911.

    Tiptronic, naturally.

    :)

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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  • #12
    micks_address
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭micks_address


    galwaytt wrote: »
    Porsche 911.

    Tiptronic, naturally.

    :)

    Not a taycan?


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