"The downside is the Dacia models which use the 1.5 diesel get slighlty less MPG officially but you should still be getting near 70mpg on your commute (officially 80mpg extra urban or 74.0 mpg combined)."
I don't belive for one moment that you would get 70 mpg out of a Dacia Logan. The official figures for the Logan are identical to the much smaller Sandero and on the Honest John real MPG pages the Sandero 1.5 has a "real" figure of 57.9 mpg. Drop a few off that since the Logan is bigger and I would say a max of 55 mpg would be a more realistic expectation.
"I would stay away from the 1.6 diesel in a Ford focus, these engines are known to be financial time bombs (unless they are now using the Peugeot.Citroen unit?)"
Ford have been using the PSA engine (same as Peugeot, Citroen etc) in their 1.6 diesels since the inroduction of the Mk 2 Focus in about 2004 or 2005. We had one for 5 years and it never missed a beat. It was correctly serviced using the correct lubricants.
Now have a Kia Ceed SW. Huge car for the money, totally reliable and on an 80 mile commute you should get possibly the mid to high 50's. Some good deals out there on nearly new cars with the best part of the 7 year warranty remaining.
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