4 push bikes

 

Like that chuckle brothers moving gazebo thing? :lol:

Just need to figure out how to bolt on a diesel engine, oh dear oh dear :dunno:

 

FIRE engined Fiat Punto/Uno/Panda.

 

Seconded, dont think you will find a much cheaper option than the Fiat offerings.

 

It would be hard to find a cheaper beast, maybe a 1.0 AX for cheap spare parts and lower insurance but we are talking pennies.

My 45 L series has lasted over 70K so far with minimal costs. I expect it could do another 70K but this time with much lower depreciation.

 

306 diesel ! my mate gets very high mpg!!

 

 

if you can find a good one a metro diesel or AX or 106.

great mpg, my metro never let me down.

i had a 306 td and it as terrible, about 35-38 mpg and could not get any better.
Handling was crap too.

Steve

 

Depending on how loosely you want to define the term "car", I would think a later Reliant, either a Rialto or a Mk2 or 3 Robin would be about the cheapest thing on wheels imaginable. They do like 60mpg and appear to go for no more than a few hundred pounds a piece, and IIRC have all sorts of discounts on insurance and road tax. The bodies are fiberglass and the chassis are galvanized, so as their old ads said, you'll get sick of the car long before it ever wears out.

However, I understand there's a massive stigma associated with those things over in the UK, probably even worse than the one that BL and ex-BL products have, and of course, they're not even cars in the strictest sense of the word.

 

Having been born in Tamworth where they were made..I have a fond memory of them...sad to say you are right about the stigma - even though they were eco cars long before their time!!

 

Should have said, no noddy cars or robin reliants! Has to be R8/306 to mondeo size.

What I'm really after is an old school diesel with no common rail or other complicated stuff which will scrap the car if it goes wrong

 

L-series Rover 420, should fit the bill nicely, easily achieve high 40's mpg, rock solid l-series and the honda influnce on the rest of the car, should stand it in good stead.

Focus 1.8 tddi, should be achievable, again cheap to run.

Sorry could never recommend a french car!

 

Ford ka.....

 

No, nothing better at all.

 

I had a Rover 420D which I ran on filtered waste vegetable oil. On one journey I managed 46mpg driving from Coventry to North Yorkshire and back whilst towing a caravan.

For some reason - and don't ask me how - it was actually 3-5mpg more economical running on waste cooking oil than it was on diesel. Go figure...

 

I'd have to go with the Metro/106 Diesel. Weigh nothing and a seriously small diesel engine.

 

i would have to say a nova/corsa diesel or for a bit of poke a td but i have so much of a love for vauxhalls im very biast

 

Don't forget anything L-series will cost £190 a year to tax.

 

If you want a larger car then i'd go for a Mk2 Mondeo TD.... i picked up a R plate cheap tatty estate for £200 a few years ago and the car was pretty bullet proof. I used it like a van while i was doing up my house and it took the abuse very well indeed. Returned V good mpg too, even with massive loads in the back....

 

I've a few mondeo's, all very good. MK2 diesels are harder to get hold of in good nick that you'd think now because so many have been cabbed. Shopping for a 420d.

 

Found a mint looking R8 218 sl td with 6 months tax for peanuts, going to have a look at the weekend

This has the pug engine right?

 

Yeah it has, according to ze buying guide http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?r8buyingf.htm

 

106 diesel

 

deffo 106 diesel mine cost me £150 for a 1994 one without mot, its peanuts in tax as it was classed below 1500cc even though it was the 1500 cc diesel???? i could get 420 miles to £28 of diesel at 2006 pump prices, just very uncomfortable for for a fat 6ft 2in driver so it had to go

 

No messing around, got the rover!

A few little niggles but for £300 with tax you can't complain!

 

Well if you want fuel economy go for a 1.5 TD nova , those things hate eating fuel it is like sacralidge Lol but they are rarer than rocking horse shizzle to find

 

Just given up running my old Escort 1.8TD (99 v plate)

Gave £350 for it in March last year, spent £300 on new suspension front and rear, wishbones, bushes etc etc when I bought it, ran it on biodiesel for 20k miles and sold it for £400

Bargain IMHO :king: as that sale paid for the insurance on my ZT