best modern daily for the wife?

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Any Lambo will suit her fine. Good visibility, nice light clutch, easy to live with around town, reasonable mpg & cheap servicing 😉

toyota yaris
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Pretty much what I’m hearing. I’ve always been loyal to VW with my older cars but out of the loop when it comes to modern stuff

I think mk4 golf era and before they where pretty bulletproof, especially with the 1.9 pd engine. Nearly every mk5 golf I see is covered in rust though. And the dash rattles are enough to drive you insane. I avoid driving it as much as I can, it costs too much in oil to run

What sort of distance would her daily commute be? That would be a big factor in this decision for me

Dacia Sandero, My wife has had one since 2016, 1.2 petrol version, absolutely reliable, zero issues with it.

As you would expect it's basic i.e not much to go wrong especially as it's old tried and tested tech coming from Reanult models of old.

You could pick up a 3 year old car with lowish miles for £3000. Depends what she wants in a car I suppose, my wife loves hers because of it's simplicity and to be honest I rather like driving it for the same reason but if you want soft touch materials and gadgets galore you will have to look elsewhere.

Good luck with the search.

Not even 8 miles a day but it’s also our main car at weekends too

The wife uses a 55 plate one of these with the 1.8 diesel so no dpf on it, great spec including full leather, heated seats, air con etc and it cost about £1800, had it three years and all its had is a turbo pipe, front tyres and front discs and pads. Also with it being a Ford if I keep it long enough it will be worth a mint! 😂😂😂

My daily is the big brother Grand C Max with the sliding side doors, great car.