So now I'm moving out of London I have to buy a car to drive to the station in

Grumblings of Mrs Git about having a third car have imposed budgetary constraint of about 6k

My heart wants to buy an old Land Rover Defender diesel, but at that price it would have at least 100k miles on the clock. Would it spend its life up on blocks and generally be a pain in the arse, or do they really go on for ever?

My head says buy a Skoda or a Toyota Yaris because it'll be lower mileage, good value because of badge snobbery and much more reliable. But it is such boring idea that I'm not sure I can face it.

My other ideas have been a VW Golf convertible or a Mazda MX-5 (bit mid-life crisis-ish). In that price range either would have about 70k on the clock. Am I going to run into major mechanical issues?

What does the wisdom of the Wrath suggest?

Posted By: Old Git on April 16th 2008 at 13:49:05

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So now I'm moving out of London I have to buy a car to drive to the station in (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 13:49:05
- Hare goo (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Apr 16, 14:17:27
  - And the Defender has it by a country mile... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Apr 16, 14:22:11
- Hang on a bloody sec.... (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Apr 16, 14:10:27
  - ...ok, now is cool... (General Chat) - Arganth, Apr 16, 14:11:11
    - No thanks (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 14:33:17
    - No thanks (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 14:28:11
      - This one is lovely. I just want something LHD. (General Chat) - Arganth, Apr 16, 14:31:26
- Just bought a Yaris for the missus ... (General Chat) - meeky, Apr 16, 14:08:44
- Mazda 6, 2l Diesel 136hp (General Chat) - Cannydc, Apr 16, 14:08:10
- Get a Skoda (General Chat) - Tomblander, Apr 16, 13:55:42
  - He ain't got any so it would be perfect (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Apr 16, 14:00:16
- Use one of your existing 2 cars and spend 6K on frivolities... (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Apr 16, 13:54:14
- Are you moving back to Norfolk? Oh and get the Land Rover (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Apr 16, 13:51:28
  - Kent (I'm gonna be a commooooota) (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 13:52:13
    - Well good luck with that... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Apr 16, 13:59:56
- 75% of the Land Rovers ever built (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, Apr 16, 13:51:16
  - but why would you buy a Land Rover to drive to the station? (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 16, 13:52:20
    - Might be able to use it at weekends to do, err, rugged things (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 13:55:17
      - Starting up with the dogging again OG? (n/m) (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, Apr 16, 14:10:29
        
        Me and JT, we work as a team (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 14:15:49
    - to get OG's bath chair in the back (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Apr 16, 13:54:27
      - oh yeah (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 16, 13:54:59
- buy a vespa (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Apr 16, 13:50:57
  - Lambretta betta (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Apr 16, 13:51:40
    - indeedy (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Apr 16, 13:54:32
    - are they? whastha difference then? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 16, 13:52:54
- 3rd car? (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Apr 16, 13:50:25
  - Today's Reading Badge goes to blindasabat (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 13:51:50
    - for blindas then (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 16, 13:53:54
    - thank you (General Chat) - blindasabat, Apr 16, 13:53:07
      - Mrs Git will need them (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 13:56:07
        
        NEEDED for school run ? Lots of fields chez OG then ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Apr 16, 14:12:36
        
        she can drive 2 cars at once? (General Chat) - blindasabat, Apr 16, 13:59:06
        
        As you well know (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 16, 14:00:15
        
        well then (General Chat) - blindasabat, Apr 16, 14:03:48

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