I’m seeing some very nice Panda Pop / Easy models from Fiat themselves for around £5k. Meaning I’d be able to afford it in September if I get a summer job so it’s so so tempting to go Panda!
Don’t let people railroad you one way or another, the biggest mistake you can sometimes make when trying to buy a car is asking someone’s opinion. For example I wouldn’t buy either car, but I can be objective in weighing up the pros and cons of each.
Other people will impose their own situation on you and expect you to share their needs, wants or desires.
I have a relative who things they are God’s gift to buying cars, if you ask them what they thing you will never be right, when my wife got her 2012 mini, all this relative could say about it was the gearbox would go wrong, that it wasn’t a proper mini and “why would you buy that” then I leant it to him for a week while we where away on holiday. He know owns the same model mini, but of course his is better for whatever reason (despite being a lower spec)
So decide what you want not try and pick the best of what everyone else’s opinion is.
I didn’t buy my bright purple golf cabriolet diesel because it was the fastest car or the biggest car, it’s certainly not the best car money can buy and it’s not the cheapest to run or the most practical, it is however exactly what I wanted, so you need to buy what you want, not what everyone else wants.
And 4th Renault?! ..how many months has it been?
I had exactly the same thought.
I wouldn’t own a Dacia if you paid me to have (well if you paid me I’d take the money but not drive the car ever)
Dacia build cars to be very cheap, they do this by cutting every conceivable corner. I know James May liked to romanticise about the simplicity of the Dacia and it being the essence of a car without frills, but for those paying attention that was before Renault took over, now the cars are cheap for the very basic car but everything else is an optional extra, and for what come standard on any normal car ends up adding up to a lot on a Dacia, on top of which, you still have to contend with a budget paint job and the cheapest steal going, cheap seats that bugger up your back and cheap carpets that wear through in 2years.