Small Family Cars – The Used Cars’ Price Guide

Small family cars have always been popular withprices of Focus, Golf and Astra 1.4 petrol models
Irish drivers.  They can serve the whole familyproduced in 2006. Ford has proved to be the
while being cheap to buy, drive and insure. Butmost expensive with the average price of
how to find the best value for money?€16,000. The biggest rival, VW Golf is not
The most popular buysmuch cheaper - €15,500. Opel is the least
Irish leading motoring website ( team has recentlypricey options and the average amount of money
conducted a survey on used cars’ pricesto be paid for a 1.4 3 year old model is only
analyzing the data available on its pages. It turned€12,000 even though it is as attractive as the
out, that the most popular vehicles from the smallother two in terms of technology and equipment.
family segment are: Ford Focus, VW Golf andShould it be Opel Astra?
Opel Astra.To sum up, it seems that Opel Astra may be the
In fact Ford Focus has been Ireland’sbest choice due to its attractive price. What
best-selling car since 2001 and is appreciated forneeds consideration however, is the fact that
its quality, reliability, comfort and lively driverFocus and Golf loose less of value with time,
responsiveness. A 4-5 person family can benefitwhat may make a difference in several years
from its spacious boot and comfortable rearwhen we decide to sell our used cars. It is also
seats. Probably due to popularity and good PR,worth mentioning that the new version of Ford
second-hand Focus is also more expensive thanFocus will be available next year. As some
other used cars from the family segment.satisfied users of the second generation models
The used cars’ pricesmay like to upgrade, the prices may fall a bit due
The Car Buyers Guide team has compared theto higher supply.