I'm curious what price you think these might drop down to? I'm after a Fiesta and might wait till next year if you think it's worth holding off?

The Suzuki Celerio is a fab little car. Have now bought three of them for various family members.

Wife has recently acquired a Hyundai i10 1 litre Premium and I'm amazed at the quality of it. Really well screwed together, quiet, economical and (at last) a decent looking Korean (via Turkey!) car. Very cheap to insure/tax also. Plus the 5 year warranty and 5 years breakdown cover is unrivalled at the price point. Seriously now looking at an i30 for me.

I agree with you.

When I stop using Thames Link to commute to London, I plan to buy i10 2017 to drive to work locally.(Between me and my wife, we already have a large SUV family car and do not need another.)

VW UP is not an option as its automatic version is very bad. I only want an automatic car.

Its got 5 doors as standard, they do not do a 3 door in the Viva

I presume £1000 is the minimum, may be worth it if you have a bit of a banger that needs some work,

That might have to account for other part imports and such.

Your comment is misleading and wrong. The only Vauxhall built in the UK is the Astra (and some of them are built in Poland!) Everything else is built abroad. Viva and Mokka come from Korea. Corsas are from Spain or Germany. Oh and most manufacturers have increased prices by the way

Yes but make sure your insurer is ok with the lease company being both the registered owner and keeper. Most insurance companies are ok with this and won't affect your premium as if it was your own car. Make sure you take out gap insurance if you're worried about the shortfall in case you write your car off

The RHD Celerios sold in the UK and made in Thailand, not India which is probably a good thing.

Yes, you're right. The top model SZ4 Suzuki Celerios are around the £10k mark but the three I've bought (all SZ4's) have been very low mileage ones, typically around six months old and I paid £7.5k, £7.0k and £5.8k (the first two from dealers, the last one privately). You'll get at least £1,000 p/x for any old banger (we got this for an 11 year old Aygo) if you go to a dealer.

These cars aren't to everyone's taste but they'll happily do 70 mpg if you have a gentle right foot, there's no road tax to pay for and the auto's are a doddle to drive without the penalties you get from a conventional fluid-drive or CVT.

There's nothing wrong with the Viva but it doesn't come in auto so was off our shopping list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_i10#Second_generation_.282013.E2.80.93present.29
It certainly used to be India for the old i10, the difference in build quality to the turkish built i20 was obvious. Sounds like Hyundai also saw the difference and moved production of the i10.
http://www.richmondmotorgroup.com/i10-offer.aspx

This scheme is actually called the "£1,000 Swappage Allowance". There's no free government money. It's designed to confuse naive people into thinking the previous scheme has returned.

I'm not saying the car isn't worth £7K, but this "swappage allowance" nonsense is complete marketing BS!

Yep. I'm 100% with you on this. I recently bought a 16 plate car, not because I needed one but because in a year's time, I reckon it will be at least 10% more expensive and because of inflation I'll be that much poorer. I also bought one with the absolute minimum running costs because fuel is set to rocket.

I really don't understand the views of people that even now still believe voting for Brexit was the smart thing to do. The £ is already substantially down and likely to crater even further whatever happens with Article 50. Inflation is already with us; I'm already seeing this at Aldi & Lidl. We're retuning to the days of bad money where inflation outstrips what you can get in interest on your savings. And for what? We're already set for £122 billion in lost growth. It looks very much like we'll continue to pay into the EU for access to the single market. Everyone already here will have the right to stay here and the bulk EU law will simply be enshrined in English law! How is that a win??

I find it deeply ironic that people who make such an emotionally incontinent display of 'loving their country' are the very people that are going be responsible for damaging it beyond repair. So sad when, for the first time I'm my living memory that the country was actually doing okay relative to our peers.

Apparently a lot of people who felt 'left behind' or were 'just about managing' voted for Brexit. Good luck then with the new post-Brexit reality that's about to engulf you. You're about to become 'left way behinds' and 'just can't manage any mores'. Or maybe they believed Nigel Garage's rallying cry about 'fighting for The Little Man'. I do hope these people have now spotted that Nige has gone back to his old day job of being a stockbroker and that his chief financial backer trousered £220 million as a result of betting on Brexit. Ever felt like you've been conned? Oh, and about the EU not doing so great. Well maybe it isn't but WE were doing well, very well actually, in fact better than we had done for decades and surely that's more important, especially if you're going to wrap yourself up in The Union Jack and claim to love your country?