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My problem is I'll consider anything if it looks like its at a good price!

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    Cliff, wedding bells this year, I am sure that might lead to the patter of tiny feet and so on, go back up to post #15, your car is there, no need to trawl the classifieds, your holy grail has found you ^ #15  ;)

    Have you seen the price of standard replacement clio trophy dampers? Sole reason why I'd never buy one.

    MkI Octy L&K?

    or, you mentioned E36. Mate of mine and fellow forum member has one. Goes like stink now he's tweaked it.

    The 330D BMW above, good fuel economy, unassuming in white very practical and will keep up at How Fast, sensible hat still on.

    Those 330d's are pretty nice. 

    You probably need to prioritise what car will actually fulfil your needs. Do you need economy (fuel and running costs), speed (with it probably high running costs as if nothing else, the car will have been thrashed), space (extra storage for mini-Pasties?) or just something different (to hell with worrying abut costs, reliability, space, insurance etc).

     

    Of course we would all like a car with the looks of a Ferrari, the performance of a P1, the economy of a diesel/hybrid.super-mini, the space of a Transit van and the sound track of an AC Cobra, all for the price of second-hand toothbrush, but there aren't many out there :( So if you listed what's most important to you through to what's least, we might be able to focus on finding you that illusive rocket propelled Ferrari Colgate Hybrid model that you need :)  

     

    Come to think about it, this could be a project for Top Gear :)

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    ex Police cars are serviced extremely well, a mate of mine has a 530D touring, he paid £1,000 for it with 155,000 miles, when the service history was read it became apparent that every 6,000 miles a full service was carried out, the car wanted for nothing whilst in the Police.

     Compare that to the full service history Leaseplan or ex company cars offer and personally I would not hesitate to buy an ex police car.

     

    In fact I am trying to convince the wife to chop the Fabia VRS in and buy this very 330.

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    You probably need to prioritise what car will actually fulfil your needs. Do you need economy (fuel and running costs), speed (with it probably high running costs as if nothing else, the car will have been thrashed), space (extra storage for mini-Pasties?) or just something different (to hell with worrying abut costs, reliability, space, insurance etc).

     

    Of course we would all like a car with the looks of a Ferrari, the performance of a P1, the economy of a diesel/hybrid.super-mini, the space of a Transit van and the sound track of an AC Cobra, all for the price of second-hand toothbrush, but there aren't many out there :( So if you listed what's most important to you through to what's least, we might be able to focus on finding you that illusive rocket propelled Ferrari Colgate Hybrid model that you need :)  

     

    Come to think about it, this could be a project for Top Gear :)

     

    You missed out the most important thing.

     

    Fun. :)

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    ex Police cars are serviced extremely well, a mate of mine has a 530D touring, he paid £1,000 for it with 155,000 miles, when the service history was read it became apparent that every 6,000 miles a full service was carried out, the car wanted for nothing whilst in the Police.

     Compare that to the full service history Leaseplan or ex company cars offer and personally I would not hesitate to buy an ex police car.

     

    In fact I am trying to convince the wife to chop the Fabia VRS in and buy this very 330.

     

    and its already chipped

    sneaky old plod. lets hope they declared it to their insurers :D

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    Subaru, you will need a petrol tanker too, no good for the commute IMO

     

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    Subaru, you will need a petrol tanker too, no good for the commute IMO

     

    yeah i know.

    i drifted somewhat off topic when a modified legacy came up in my ebay search :)

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    Something I like doing when looking for a car is to go to Autotrader, set a maximum price, mileage and fuel type if you want to be specific, just set a max price if you don't and hit search.

     It is unbelievable what cars come up that you would never have considered, try it. 

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