Help with a change of car.

A 4wd is not totally necessary Dave but they seem to be the only cars that give the height between ground and car body. The track is muddy and as the car will be using the mountain road (high ground) to and from work there's also ice/snow to take into account although we don't get much here.

 

Fiat Panda 4x4

Jack McH

 

FC......Thanks, we'll check out the Kia Sportage and see if we can track down the Hyundai.

Jack......now there's a thought! A local farmer used to use a Panda to round up his sheep in the fields.

 

Whatever you go for, buy Japanese Turn the key, and it goes...

 

F.....fix I.....it A.....again T.....tomorrow.

Fiat Panda..... as with all these small cars, known in my family as a 'pasty warmer'. Sorry, no offence meant to anyone that owns one.

FC..... The word Suburu, sounds expensive to me.

 

Hi Sheal , for a second low price get to work car the Jimny is great. They use them as hire cars on the Greek islands and they are pretty reliable. Sounds a good choice to me !!! Its not a 4 x 4 get you up mount Snowdon type of motor , but down a bumpy farm track it will be fine.

 

Can you ask the owners of the track to fill in the potholes

4x4 are not much more heigher an most cars, yes the body work is heigher off the ground but the running gear isn't much heigher unless it's on big wheels, the height of the axle and the towbar is the wrost bit

 

Totally agree, the other suggestions are going to prove far too expensive for a second car!! A Jimny is a great little car, I almost bought another but was tempted but the zero tax on the Aygo.

Val

 

Its the isle of Man ,they only have three legs , terrible on corners.

 

The track is attached to the farmland that my husbands new boss owns. He actually owns a machine to level it but lent it out to another farmer some while ago and hasn't got it back yet. Now, considering how slowly things can work here, the track is not going to be sorted out anytime soon, if at all.