Used Car Awards 2010

Why no best used supercar? That might have been the most interesting category.
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By wilsonlaidlaw on 23 September, 2010, 8:01am

Why no used sports car? No MX-5, no Boxster, no Elise

By DavidI on 23 September, 2010, 11:42pm

People always miss the point of a 'Hot Hatch'. A good one will be all things to all men. Sensible when you have to take the kids to school, but also able to put a smile on your face when you push on a bit on the way home. The Golf is the best at this. Yes there are better handlers, certainly faster but the Golf is the best compromise.
The other thing with the Golf is the pedigree. It is the original GTi. Yes it did loose the plot a bit with the Mk 3 & 4, but the Mk 5 has the fizz of the original. When your sat in the pub with a group of people and the subject turns to cars,I know what I would rather own up to driving. A Renault or a VW Golf GTI. One is certainly going to get more respect, as you sound like a car bore when you have to explain that although it's a Renault it is a fast Renault. The Golf speaks for it's self.
Having said that in terms of value for money forget it. From new it is way overpriced and under specced.

By willywalsh on 24 September, 2010, 8:07am

Rule of thumb...

If buying used...

Japanese are always the most reliable.

French and Italians will normally cause headaches, but not as big a headaches as German turbo-diesels which invariably blow there turbo`s at higher mileages causing severe damage to the wallet! servicing costs are higher and garage owners rub there hands together with glee when any German car appears on the ramps...

Surprisingly from my experiences Fords and Vauxhalls are every bit as good as the Germans second-hand, often better as they will be newer per-pound spent to boot...

Note AutoExpress has honed a list completely devoid of any of the truly reliable makes.

Maybe AutoExpress would like to look closer at the failure rates of VW overstressed TFSi engines and also BMW turbo-diesel`s "turbo`s" both of which cost their unlucky owners a kings ransom to replace!

So the rule of thumb... German cars may give you a certain snob value, but not the wallet value in the long-run!

By LegioIXHispana on 25 September, 2010, 7:37pm

@willywalsh missing the point about a hot hatch???

Hi Willywalsh,

"One is certainly going to get more respect, as you sound like a car bore when you have to explain that although it's a Renault it is a fast Renault. The Golf speaks for it's self." Have to disagree with you ... Anyone who picks the Golf highlights themselves as someone who has no imagination and is doing what everyone else does. My Renaultsport R26 is used regularly as a family runabout, my 6'4" son can sit happily in the back seat behind me, a 6 footer., the back seats fold flat to make a perfectly good loadlugger, and it's relatively rare. And just not boring like a fizzy(?) Golf. Now the R32 .... that's HOT enough!!!! ;¬)

By matt2e on 25 September, 2010, 11:55pm

"but the Golf is the best compromise" and there lays the problem with the golf, its a compromise, it says I have given up car and cant be bothered to think of what else I could get and will settle for the middle.

There is only one hot hatch to have at the moment and that is the Alfa Romeo Giuletta Cloverleaf, it has everything, style (which no german car has!), the power and it now handles like an Alfa should! Oh and reliability which alfa has in spades now a days (dont let anyone at AE or any other motoring publication tell you otherwise!). I have owned a 147 for a few years now and its never gone wrong, not once; unlike my mates Golf that has had thousands spent on it in the same period, has it let me down.

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By kinjack on 1 October, 2010, 4:50pm

to LegioIXHispana

Haha....
My friend - fords and vauxhalls are German cars! :-)
Ford headquarter in Europe is Cologne- Germany where all europeans fords are designed and mostly manufactured.
Vauxhall is nothing more than designed in Germany Opel... with griffin badge.

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