At least Dick Turpin wore a mask!!

[Robby71]

I was looking at the new Vauxhall Corsas the other week, they do a 1.4 turbo which sounded good but looking at the figures it produces 100bhp which is the same as the old shape 1.4na? guess mpg will be better though?
In SRi spec and with the XP pack you can buy them for £9.5k 1 year old and they do look nice
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182047795644? ... EBIDX%3AIT

I have a few months to decide what car to get when my lease expires, i was looking at 116 M-Sport but reviews aren't that good - golf GTs look good but a bit bland so i'm 90% decided on a Polo GT ACT as it looks economical/ nippy and has a nice interior

There are a lot of cheap small cars about but think about if you need to transport something in the future, will it be big enough? I've had Minis and an Abarth 500 which were big enough for my everyday needs but useless when i needed to collect something of average size

[RUM4MO]

I think that you meant "is the 1.4 16v reliable?" - well, it does not get much competition in these stakes form the rest of the VAG engine range, so it is very easy to say it is reliable!

Yeah, you're correct, I meant the 1.4. Is that not the same engine as the 85PS engine in the Polo then?

Yes!

Edit:- when I was picking the engine for my wife's new Polo back in April 2015, I did consider the old 1.4 16V 85PS for a short time, but by that time VW only offered it with auto trans, so no good. Now if VW had still offered an old school engine with some power, like the 1.6 16V 105PS then I would have jumped at getting one!
Modern technology is okay in itself, it is just that all manufacturing industry first looks at the bottom line cost wise, and takes it from there - "market says low emissions - have we got an engine range that satisfies that?" if the answer begins with "well in a few months we will" - then the immediate technical decision by the technically inept money man in charge is "get them out there - the donkeys will buy them!" and so we are where we don't want to be now, ie here, nasty but true!

Low annual mileage coupled with short journeys still points to either old tech engines (VAG 1.4 85PS) or electric, DPF don't like not getting fully warmed up neither do any turbos - ie of either fuel, well it is not that they do not like it, it will be just that you should find the repair/rework a bit costly. I have a very nice early 2011 Audi S4 sleeping in my garage, it does get out for long walkies now and again (4K OR 5K a year)! For the normal short local journeys it is my daughter's Ibiza 1.4 that get taken - that is until she returns to UK! All the other shortish work is done by wife's 1.2TSI 110PS Polo 6R 6C.