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Re: Which budget buy?
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:25 pm
by JPB
Now that's a serious bargain! Nice price.
Re: Which budget buy?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:50 pm
by SirTainleyBarking
JPB wrote:SirTainleyBarking wrote:....I used to thrash a Rover 115SLD 200 miles a day for work.........A nice little ride
And the
ideal car for business use if your employer pays by the standard capacity allowance scale since 1500cc is in the biggest group, so gets you the highest level of expenses, but the car has a sub-1549cc engine, so if you have to pay for tax, it's in the cheaper band of the pre-2001 VED rates and it should use far less fuel than anything else of that engine size. The little Peugeot engine doesn't mind a drop of veggie either, so I'm told by colleagues who run them for all of the above reasons.
Yes, good call.
The engine doesn't mind Veg or anything even remotely liquid or burnable as its indirect injection, but I never did the veg oil thing, as the Lucas copy rotary diesel pump that I had on mine takes one look at anything remotely non dino, and dies horribly. Needs a piston style Bosch pump to handle that.
55 to the Gallon, driven Flat out on the motorway.
The XUD / TUD 5 engine was Pug's finest IMHO
Re: Which budget buy?
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:12 pm
by rld14
Bollotti wrote:Well I have taken the plunge and bought a Rover. However is is a little more modern in the shape of a 75 CDT SE.
At the price is was going for (under £500.00), it is a bit of a bargain. Needs a little TLC, but mechanically it appears to be spot on.
As an aside, I decided it would be prudent to joint the Rover 75 Club Forum. Here is the reply I recieved this morning:
Unfortunately your registration at The 75 and ZT Owners Club Forums did not meet our membership requirements. Therefore your registration was deleted.
Sorry,
The 75 and ZT Owners Club Forums
Now I can only assume that at age 45, I am considered too young join
Funny you should mention that... ther's a 75 here in America that I have contemplated buying, and I tried to register there and got the same message!
So much for that, eh?
Re: Which budget buy?
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:02 am
by humberjohn
Peugoet 205 lots of good examples at rock bottom prices or ford sierra 1.6 or 1.8 these cars can only go up in value. pweople may not give these cars a second look at the moment but they will.
My prediction for the next hot ford early mondeo st 24v it might take a few years but these cars will be hot stuff