One of my work colleagues needs car for a couple of months to learn to drive and take the test - after which he's deployed to the far away place. Only limitation is that it will have to parked on the street, he's 6 foot 4 inches and does not nwant to spend more than £500.

Any suggestions ?

Nick

Punto?

I am 6foot 3ish and had a mark II for a few months. Looked at the mark I's and fitted, but wanted a MKII due to addition of ABS, airbags etc.

Plus, buy the right one and know-ones gonna want to steal it if its on the street.

Mark 3 Astra.

I bought an L-reg 1994 Isuzu engined 1.7TD GLS as a 6 month old demo, and ran it as a driving school car for 4 years and 185k miles, and apart from 2 clutches and having the timing belt changed every 40k miles, that car never let me down once. Learners loved it as well. Biggest other job that was done was a headlight bulb.

When it went, it didn't owe me a penny.

Plenty of reasonable ones still out there for that kind of money.

Watch out for the 1.6 16v lumps though, drink oil....had the headgasket go on mine the exhaust was fubard and the new one kept seperating at the manifold :S. Cost me £1k in about 3-4months.

At which point i got fed up and bought a 1.8 16v Mk4 Astra....only ever had to put a clutch in that aswell as new tyres and oil changes every 6k. Never skipped a beat and it did get some stick.

Dont know what sort of prices Civics go for now, but they seem to be bulletproof enginewise.

:)Favorit or Felicia.