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My daughter is looking for her first car.

She desperately wants a Holden Cruze hatch. I have read the reviews and the Aus built hatch isn't bad. Looking around the 7k mark.

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts/reviews on them as a second hand car.

Other options we're looking at, Corolla hatch, Lancer sedan or hatch, Mazda3 hatch.

I stress, we're not going to buy a car now as she's 15y 5m, but we want to narrow the field by weeding some of these options out.

gadj1976 wrote:My daughter is looking for her first car.

She desperately wants a Holden Cruze hatch. I have read the reviews and the Aus built hatch isn't bad. Looking around the 7k mark.

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts/reviews on them as a second hand car.

Other options we're looking at, Corolla hatch, Lancer sedan or hatch, Mazda3 hatch.

I stress, we're not going to buy a car now as she's 15y 5m, but we want to narrow the field by weeding some of these options out.

Without looking at exact models / k's / condition I'd lean towards the Corolla or Mazda 3, but given you're spending $7k you'll get something pretty decent in any of those models. The Lancer would be the last of those 4 I'd look at.

Check out the ReDriven youtube channel.

He does a review on a second hand Cruze. From memory, not great.

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Booney wrote:

gadj1976 wrote:My daughter is looking for her first car.

She desperately wants a Holden Cruze hatch. I have read the reviews and the Aus built hatch isn't bad. Looking around the 7k mark.

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts/reviews on them as a second hand car.

Other options we're looking at, Corolla hatch, Lancer sedan or hatch, Mazda3 hatch.

I stress, we're not going to buy a car now as she's 15y 5m, but we want to narrow the field by weeding some of these options out.

Without looking at exact models / k's / condition I'd lean towards the Corolla or Mazda 3, but given you're spending $7k you'll get something pretty decent in any of those models. The Lancer would be the last of those 4 I'd look at.

you havent shopped for a 2nd hand car lately have you...

haha...I know it's gone nuts but you're right, I haven't.

HH3 wrote:Check out the ReDriven youtube channel.

He does a review on a second hand Cruze. From memory, not great.

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Thanks mate, I hadn't heard of ReDriven before. I watched the video. Their comment "nup, no, nada, don't". The mechanic "They're sh*t" was his first sentence. Hmm.

Thanks, end of story! We'll look at something else.

Edit: I've just watched the ReDriven reviews on the Mazda3 and I've added in the i30 as they look the best of the options remaining.

Booney wrote:

gadj1976 wrote:My daughter is looking for her first car.

She desperately wants a Holden Cruze hatch. I have read the reviews and the Aus built hatch isn't bad. Looking around the 7k mark.

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts/reviews on them as a second hand car.

Other options we're looking at, Corolla hatch, Lancer sedan or hatch, Mazda3 hatch.

I stress, we're not going to buy a car now as she's 15y 5m, but we want to narrow the field by weeding some of these options out.

Without looking at exact models / k's / condition I'd lean towards the Corolla or Mazda 3, but given you're spending $7k you'll get something pretty decent in any of those models. The Lancer would be the last of those 4 I'd look at.

$7k for a first car and it's only JUST decent. Hmm....

Saw a 2012 Mazda 2 advertised for $13k today

Brodlach wrote:Saw a 2012 Mazda 2 advertised for $13k today

That's Covid cheap!

Hopefully the prices will come down soon.

Brodlach wrote:Saw a 2012 Mazda 2 advertised for $13k today

Done less than 40,000kms in 10 years

Picked up a 2022 Ford Wildtrak about 4 weeks ago.

Going from the 2020 version to this feels like jumping 10 years in tech.

Yet to take it offroad, but if I took the 2020 on a few fully offroad trips, and if its anything like that one, itll do anything I want it to do.

Now just looking for a cheap 4x4 that I can tinker with and chuck a shitload of Kings stuff on so I can do some dodgy offroading without worrying about rolling the bastard.

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Was gazing out the window at my workplace, and running my eye's over the cars in our carpark.

Of the 50 or so cars I can see, only 1 is a Holden. You would not have said that 10-15 years ago. We just don't make them here anymore.

At a rough estimate I think I can see Toyota with the largest representation in our car park, followed by Hyundai. Then Nissan, Mazda on the next line.

An interesting sample of the car market share.

How many of them are SUV / truck / people movers?

The abundance of large cars on the road astounds me with the way the modern world is, emissions, fuel costs etc.

They are a status symbol for the vast majority of their owners, most 4WD/truck owners wouldn't have been on dirt/sand other than a day at Silver Sands with their pompous arse dog shitting gourmet food all over the joint.

Booney wrote:How many of them are SUV / truck / people movers?

The abundance of large cars on the road astounds me with the way the modern world is, emissions, fuel costs etc.

They are a status symbol for the vast majority of their owners, most 4WD/truck owners wouldn't have been on dirt/sand other than a day at Silver Sands with their pompous arse dog shitting gourmet food all over the joint.

I'll never understand why families who don't need an SUV sized car actually buy one. It's a pain in the arse on fuel, parking, etc.
I can't wait until we can down size that bitch.

Booney wrote:How many of them are SUV / truck / people movers?

The abundance of large cars on the road astounds me with the way the modern world is, emissions, fuel costs etc.

They are a status symbol for the vast majority of their owners, most 4WD/truck owners wouldn't have been on dirt/sand other than a day at Silver Sands with their pompous arse dog shitting gourmet food all over the joint.

First people to whinge about fuel prices

Armchair expert wrote:

Booney wrote:How many of them are SUV / truck / people movers?

The abundance of large cars on the road astounds me with the way the modern world is, emissions, fuel costs etc.

They are a status symbol for the vast majority of their owners, most 4WD/truck owners wouldn't have been on dirt/sand other than a day at Silver Sands with their pompous arse dog shitting gourmet food all over the joint.

First people to whinge about fuel prices

Well diesel is a lot more expensive than petrol when it shouldn’t be.
Blatant rip off!

My daughter has a diesel i30...gets 1100km to the tank.

We ended up going with a Mazda3 SP23 auto hatch. It's done a lot of kms but is mechanically very sound.

Considering I’ve been in hibernation for 8 years, have been going through some old threads, and thought it would be good to give an update.

dedja wrote:

dedja wrote:First car driven: 1952 Morris Minor
Current car: 2004 Mazda SP23
Best car driven: 1973 LJ Torana
Worst car driven: 1975 Datsun 120Y

2014 Update

Current car: 2014 Volkswagen Golf GTI
Best car driven: 2014 Volkswagen Golf GTI

One word ... awesome

2023 Update

Current car: 2014 Volkswagen Golf GTI, stage 1 tune
Best car driven: 2014 Volkswagen Golf GTI, stage 1 tune

Just bought a 2021 Volksy Amarok V6, only 12,500kms,
it goes pretty bloody quick but it's also economical too.
I'm doing about 700kms around town before the fuel light goes on & then there's still about 12 litres left in the tank.

Therefore I'm selling my 2015 2 litre Amarok if anyone's interested.