Good fun car for under 1 grand....

[vrooom]

Does anyone have a suggestion ?

I currently drive citroen AX GT, will get new car soon ... due shoddy condition of AX GT

by the way, how does those japanese car like Honda civic, CRX, Toyota MR2 whatever cheap for under a grand drive ?
r they THAT expenisve to run, dull to drive... ???

It has be cheap runabout coz i currently out of job, grim grey line at dole (

personally i liked drive Fiat uno 903cc Sooo fun car, but way too underpowered, until i blew the engine... had to scrapped my red tin for £10
looking for a car that have same or above the level of fun-ness of fiat uno... my citroen AX GT doesn't even match the fun-ness of fiat uno, beileve or not!

Jay

ps sorry for not making a sense at all as i'm still in hangover mode after new year.... also useless long post

[HarryW]

Not the quickest thing available, but will certainly last and has good handling, visibility, and a certain amount of presence that'll allow you to get away with having such an old eurobox. You should be able to get a decent one for around £500.

[HarryW]

Mk1 Golf that is

[steelnads]

205 GTI 1.9 are mega fun

[ZZR600]

2.8i crapi good bit of arse out action i miss mine

Edited by ZZR600 on Tuesday 1st January 14:36

[McNab]

Jay,

Have you tried 'Exchange & Mart' ? Click on cars in the centre and then enter £1,000 in the price box. I didn't bother with the other boxes, and it came up with 4,190 cars of all sorts. Some of the adverts were quite encouraging.

Come back here when you've made a list of possibles and you'll get lots of good advice about what to try and what to avoid. Good luck!

[anonymous-user]

How about a Manta GT/E.
2.0 fuel injected, not mega fast, but you can hang the tail out on roundabouts.
I sold mine for £270 and it was in really good condition.
Triumph Spitfires are also good fun, but you would have trouble picking up a decent runner for under £1500.Stick a straight through twin back box exhaust on one and you get crackling and pops out of it like a racing car.And thats from a 1500!!

Lee

[reardrive]

Sciroccos are very cheap, same engine/chassis as Mk1 Golf. Brisk, economical & handle well. Insurance a bit steep though. Good classifieds section at www.vwmonline.co.uk

[Dave_H]

Have you looked at Alfa 33's?

They are very cheap under 1K fun!!

[craigw]

Daihatsu Charade GTTi, 900cc rocketship.

[anonymous-user]

skoda 130r
now youve stopped laughing think about it!
bombproof 1.3 engine with a bit of scope for tuning, REAR WHEEL DRIVE and when you get bored you can chop the roof off and turn it into a porsche 550 spyder replica!

"If I'm not looking out of the rear window, I think I can save it"

[dan]

What about a mid eighties 6cyl 3 or 5 series BMW. Serious amount of car for the money, and the early ones are relativly easy (and cheap) to work on.

[ZZR600]

Metro GTI 1.4 16V 114 BHP , good car if you can ignore the image

[hertsbiker]

Something by Tamiya ??!!


Seriously now, why not an old R5 Turbo? just about do you for a year.

C

[ZZR600]

Good enough reason to get a tight pair of trousers and a permed wig !

[M@H]

There's a Porsche 924 on eBAY at the moment on £820..

[ZZR600]

Thats the one that shares its engine with the VW LT35 van isnt it ?

Edited by ZZR600 on Wednesday 2nd January 15:16

[M@H]

Yeah but 150BHP if its the 2.5 thats gotta be worth a grand...

[kevinday]

2.8 Capri was rated at 160 bhp. I've had two and next to the TVR they did best at the 'grin factor'.

[JonRB]

I seem to remember reading in Autocar a few weeks back that there is a firm that will take a Capri donor car, strip out the interior and fit racing seats & full roll cage, replace the leaf-spring suspension with spring & dampers all round, and drop a 5.7L American (forget which) V8 in under the bonnet. Total cost is about £5k I think, and yields a cheap & fun track-day car.

Ok, bit outside the £1k budget, but sounds like a laugh to me.