Estate Cars

I'm more than liklely gonna get an estate car, then put a tow bar on the back of it.

I was thinking of getting a Ford Focus Estate, 1.8TD. Any ideas of anything else of what would be a good one to get? I want something cheap and reliable. I was thinking the estate would be better as I could get more bike gear in there ect. That above car is a group 6 so should be cheap to insure.

[dirtydog]

How much you loking to spend on a car?

Escort estate may be a bit cheaper and is more tahn capable of towing a bike, mine towed kitkats Raptor 1000 from Scotland down to mine (about 460 miles) with no troubles at all

Was thinking £2000 at the most, if I can.

Umm an escort could be an idea, my last one served me well until some idiot crashed into it.

peugeot 405/406

[husky03]

we use focus estates in my station and there great machines-the older ones 52-55 are the better models , the newer ones seem to lack a bit of grunt.Ours get hammered , being run almost constantly, a few have over 130000 on them and are still running ok-but i wouldn't buy an ex-police one though.

buy my vectra 2.5 2000 plate, lovely and big not too thirsty 30 to the gallon, and not as bad to insure as you'd think

Originally Posted by dirtydog

How much you loking to spend on a car?

Escort estate may be a bit cheaper and is more tahn capable of towing a bike, mine towed kitkats Raptor 1000 from Scotland down to mine (about 460 miles) with no troubles at all

How many miles has your done? Seen one with 100k miles, under £1000. For run about if it will last for another 50 000 miles, that would be fine.

Don't want Pergeuot they are cr**.

Mate of mine is selling his ford mondeo, its up here mind so its not exactly local, got 101,000 on the clock buts its going cheap I beleive.

Volvo estate. Fab. My last one was 15yrs old and minted [ and would still be minted if some d*ck hadn't bumped me off the road!]

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by Bluethunder

Was thinking £2000 at the most, if I can.

Umm an escort could be an idea, my last one served me well until some idiot crashed into it.

YOu could easily get a late well looked after escort estate and still have cash left over for the insurance/service etc.

My escort (of 1995 vintage ) was running fine and just had it's mot done when got rear ended and it was written off

Originally Posted by Bluethunder

How many miles has your done? Seen one with 100k miles, under £1000. For run about if it will last for another 50 000 miles, that would be fine.

Don't want Pergeuot they are cr**.

I've had 3 escorts in the past, the 1st was a 1.4 which had done about 80k miles only reason i sold it was for a bigger car.
2nd was a 1.6 which had about 110k and still going strong only sold it cos I bought a van
3rd escort was a 1.8si, cracking good engine and towed the trailer no problem. Would still have it if it hadn't been written off, that had done about 80k


best bit about escorts is there are loads about and spares are cheap