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Still keeping the Supra of course, but my family has outgrown the Astra Estate so now we are looking for a medium size SUV which will carry the kids and all our stuff.

 

List of things required, no flexibility on these:

 

- manual

- petrol not diesel (unless it has proper decent performance)

- 2.0 or bigger engine ideally with turbo

- max £8k

 

OK let's see what you all come up with :)

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I think Mazda diesel engines are bad news, and the Porsche will just be expensive when it goes wrong.

 

Certainly not the porsche, budget is only 8k

 

Mazda engine is petrol 2.3 turbo

 

Honda is possible but just 2.0 with no turbo, doubt that is enough for such a large car

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Zafira GSI / VXR?

 

Obviously it isn't an suv , but certainly practical and both quick and tuneable.

 

Nice try! A quick look online shows the boot seems very small, much smaller than the estate car we currently have. I'll never get our family & camping equipment etc in that

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I think I'm a bit old-fashioned in thinking that diesels just aren't as quick as petrol. I'm sure to be proved wrong, but I just don't know anything about them.

 

That used to be the way before, I fondly remember an Astra diesel (think 1996) that I had which was a diesel and it was horrendously slow!

 

With turbo charged engines it has come a long way from that. Again, if possible I would highly recommend you drive one first to be in a better position to judge what you want.

 

Check out the Lexus if you can ;)

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Drive a diesel CRV, then a petrol one, not only will the diesel bury it performance wise it will do 40 plus MPG pretty much however you drive it. The petrol will easily dip sub 20 MPG. The wife inherited a CRV, and I hated the way it handled. Once it had the sheer junk tyres changed her late father had had fitted it was transformed and never missed a beat in 18 months of high mileage use, towing and general neglect. She part exchanged it and got strong money for it. Great cars, but diesel repairs can be costly if you fall unlucky.

 

 

Edit: Oh, and the manual gearbox is light, fast and slick....

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Diesel CRV is great, much better than a lot of cars in its class... I've had one for 3/4 years now and it's never missed a beat.... I even took it on Dragonball and kept up and over took a lot of Supra's (ask kamasupra aka Dave, he wasn't impressed) lol

 

I'm near Thame if you want to have a try...

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That's what I don't understand - figures for the CRV diesel say 138bhp and 10.3 secs for 0-60.

 

How can that match a Supra?

 

I know quoted figures can vary somewhat from real life (especially mpg) but when comparing so many cars that's all there is to go on unless I spend ages travelling around the country doing test drives.

 

Actually Rob I might take you up on that, I'm not too far from you at all.

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Turbo diesels (modern ones) are all about low RPM torque, they feel very rapid in the RPM band "normal" people really like to operate at driving discretely. Just try one, you'll know instantly what I mean.

 

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Possibly; I always thought SUVs were a bit of a con in that they were just estate cars propped up on a high chassis.

 

 

They are, but women have been brainwashed into thinking them safe, cool and a must have accessory to modern living.

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That's what I don't understand - figures for the CRV diesel say 138bhp and 10.3 secs for 0-60.

 

How can that match a Supra?

 

I know quoted figures can vary somewhat from real life (especially mpg) but when comparing so many cars that's all there is to go on unless I spend ages travelling around the country doing test drives.

 

Actually Rob I might take you up on that, I'm not too far from you at all.

 

I'll PM you :)

 

As Chris says the torque on modern diesels makes a big difference...

 

Which part of the Astra have you out grown?

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