20-05-14, 09:30 AM
I'd second the older Peugeot diesels (as would Christo I'm sure). Low tech diesel so don't cost a fortune if anything breaks and economical. Downside is they are boring as hell. Although they use less fuel than an equivalent petrol engined version of the same car, I worked it out for a friend once and found you need to do more than 9,000 miles a year for the diesel to be cheaper to run. The VED on a diesel is higher due to the crap they belch out of the exhaust and fuel is more expensive than petrol.