Can you help me find a new car?

[Hulababy]

Yet again my car order has fallen through, so I think we may well cancel the Smart order - this is both the Smart fortwo and the forfour that have gone wrong and the service at the garage was appalling. Infact the man organising our order was saked today

They have offered me a blue Smart forfour diesel.

But I am in two minds about using them after their incompetence.

So, what eslse could I get?

I like something a bit funky maybe.

[past cars have been Ford Ka2 (when first out), Smart (when first out), Audi Cabriolet, Golf GTi, VW Beetle]

It's the second car so not got as big a budget as I have had in past.

I have up to about £9k I guess. Have the Beetle to trade in.

Can be new or nearly new.

If two seater (which I love!) has to have ability to turn airbag off.

If four seater has to have Isofix (or option of) in the back.

What to get?!

Would an MX 5 make you smile, hula ?

BTW - is it worth going to a less incompetent Smart dealer, LOL ?

(If your heart is set on it, it seems a pity not to get one IYSWIM).

mx5's are meant to be great but they're a bit dull, aren't they ?

I had an MX5 great little cars. What about a Nissan Figaro, If I didn't have my dog I'd get one of those. Very retro, stylish, cheap to run.

forgot to put this in

I think the figaro is a great car, MM, if hula fancies 'different' LOL

wat is a figaro when it's at home ?!

oh I see.

see link Nom

I'd guess that hula wants a few more modern safety features

I know nothing about the figaro aside from shape...

Does it not have airbags etc. ? (it's a current Nissan design, right ? I would guess it's loaded with bits but may well be talking pants).

on the britax webpage it lists all the cars with isofix

They look retro (50's)but I think they're about 8 or 9 years old or so. I believe there were a batch of 20,000 made in Japan and you had to have a lottery ticket to buy one they were so popular.

is it ?! Gawd, it looks like a car from the era of the Hillman Imp.

That's the idea ndp, LOL.

Produced between 1987 & 1991 according to a nissan figaro specialist site.

LOL you beat me to it H2D.
OOOOh I lusted after a Hillman Imp when I was a kid, that and a Triumph Vitesse!

bloody awful, IMO.

I think refreshingly different, ndp.

Maybe not quite to my taste, but come on: nothing else (current) looks like it (I guess you would argue for good reason, LOL).

Modern cars are so borrrrrrrrrrrring IMHO.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one hub

FWIW, it isn't 'different', it's a rehashing of a 40 year old styling idea !

Maybe something a little newer!

Small, sporty 2 seater would be fab - if no air bag in front

Do I really need to go down realms of practical?

So annoyed with Smart at moment, and only dealership in Sheffield. Just fed up with them.

\linkwww.whatcar.com/car-review-pictures.aspx?RT=738\Peugeot 107} or Citroen C1 - Which look like the same car?

oh dear didn't preview! Peugeot 107

Yep, ndp: "retro"

But many old designs have proven to be classics - timlessly elegant / special (not sure I'd try and argue the Figaro's side there, LOL) but the old minis or E-types etc. float my boat.