God, I hate this pile of shite

[Dead Eye]

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I can't see you being able to afford the 2.0 GTi and the 1.1 petrol is false economy - you have to rag it so hard to get anywhere that you lose any MPG gains unless you drive like a nun. You have a heavy right foot, so that puts you firmly at the opposite end of the scale. Also note that the 1.6 HDi has lower MPG and is actually a higher insurance group compared the the 2.0 HDi, which makes no sense...

I get around 6.5 l in the city per 100 km on 1.1 106 peugeot. It is a light little car. However, a 206 sized car is heavy and a 1.1 engine just sucks and uses a lot of fuel. For real economy one needs a smaller car. Or a bicycle.
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Oh I totally agree, it wasn't a generic statement about 1.1 engines, my remarks were specific to the 206

The 1.4 Peugeot petrol engine is nigh on bulletproof as long as the cam belt is changed.  I bought a 1.4 306 for my daughter as her first car and it ran forever despite her having raced karts from the age of 11 so treated everything else on the road as a competitor that must be overtaken at all costs.  There's a coolant hose at the back of the engine that gets oil on it so goes all soft and squidgy which will burst at the most inappropriate time and they weep oil out of the front right corner of the head gasket (but will do that forever and isn't a reason to change the head gasket as you seem to feel that is beyond you).

But what has caused the sudden change from not wanting to repair the 106, not wanting a car and wanting to get the bike thrown back together again? 

Is the 1.4 in the 306 the same as the 206? As far as I was aware the 206 had a new line-up of engines as it replaced the older 306. I had a 306 as well, 1.9L Diesel (no Turbo) and it was a great run around car but because of its weight it just couldn't accelerate as fast as the 1.5L Diesel 106 - it cruised much better though

I thought the same, until I checked a Rover 45 saloon!

A 45 Saloon is not the same thing at all compared to a 620. The 45's were budget cars and fairly common which means people crashed them a lot

For example, I was looking at insurance on BMWs - the 3 series and 5 series between 1980~ to 2000~

The oldest, smallest car (an E30 318i) was the most expensive to insure despite having a relatively average 1.8L engine. However, the 4.4L V8 in the E39 540i was half the cost and the second cheapest despite being a larger, younger car with almost 3x the power

In fact, it would cost less for me to insure that 540i with 0 no claims bonus than it is to currently insure my 2.5L V6 MG ZS which is essentially a Rover 45 remember - it has the same engine