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Sad news everyone!

As some on here may be aware, the price of petrol in the UK is currently a f**king pisstake, and as a result my dad can't afford to run his beloved Evo any more :'( so he's getting shot of it, probably quite soon in fact. In the meantime he'll need a replacement, obviously. So I ask you, the kind folk of PCA, to give us some suggestions of a replacement. Criteria is;

- Needs to have 4 doors
- Needs to be less than £3,000
- Must be reliable, or at least easy for me and him to fix if needed
- Must be something a little bit special at least, something he can look at and be proud of, you know?

So far we've considered the E36 328i and the 156 2.5 V6

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On that note, if anyone fancies buying a fairly cheap Evo V, send me a PM.

£3,000?

How much are you planning on selling the Evo for?!

About £5,000, hopefully. Money's not in abundance at the moment so pennies must be saved. We're living like jews at the moment

This post has been edited by Ben.H: Feb 24 2011, 09:06 PM

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I would have thought that evo would be worth a little more than that.

Not in the UK, they're quite cheap, quite good if you're a buyer, not so much as a seller.

http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/list.asp?s=...amp;o=q&pc=

Also, in before Ed recommends a Volvo and/or DMC-12 recommends a classic Ford (IMG:style_emoticons/default/toung.gif)

An older MazdaSpeed3? I'm not sure how much they go for there. If not, a normal Mazda3 is still a great car.

MazdaSpeed 3's are still commanding high prices here. Look at this - http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/list.asp?s=...amp;o=q&pc=

I think my dad needs something a bit bigger and geared towards daily driving anyway, no full on sports cars

So, the price of gas going up is the reason for selling?
doesn't the evo get fairly good gas mileage?
and the goal is to find something with better fuel economy?

Yes, pretty much, my dad lost his job before Christmas so it's been difficult since then really.



You must be kidding, it's probably something like 15mpg or so. Probably a lot less when he boots it.

And yes, something cheaper to buy and run in general.

Oh, that sucks. Our Petrol is going up to, maybe not as high but yea.
Couldn't you have the Evo as a weekend driver or I dunno, that's gay.
You're lucky that Evos are fairly cheap, ours are all around 20k.

Look into the normal Mazda3s... They aren't really any smaller then the Evo.

And ya, evos get horrible mileage. I have a brand new evo block and I get 20mpg average

o.O that sucks.
I would have thought that they could get better mileage while still getting power.
I mean...there are turbo v6's out there that get better mileage than that.

anyways, go for a civic (IMG:style_emoticons/default/toung.gif) great mileage.
And if he were to get say a 2007 civic si, it's still a pretty fun and quick car and the mileage is great.

sierracosworthcando35mpg...





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cav gsi2000 will do 40 on the motorway (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

This post has been edited by DMC-12: Feb 24 2011, 10:18 PM

I checked out Mazda3 prices on pistonheads. You MAY be able to get one for under 3,000 if you really negotiated... Or you could go for its older brother and get a Mazda 323.

As for a Civic, For 3,000 he could probably only get like a 2000 model or so, definitely not 2007

yeah, i forgot about the 3k price limit when i typed that year.

You could maybe find a type r civic for that in an older model. But if you look for just regular civics, you can definitely find one. Maybe up to like 2002 or 2004.

The only down side is that it might be hard to find a bone stock civic if that's what he's looking for. If you're okay with slightly modified though, you've got a huge market.

He needs 4 door too so I don't think Type-R would apply.

So... i herd thoze fiesta lx's were pretty cool

honda civic / mazda familia / porsche 911

http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/list.asp?s=723
Kinda expensive

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go for one of them there vauxhaul astra diesels or whatever it is is over there in that compact car diesel class froma few years ago.