Cheap economical and Best SUV / Kombi

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Also production has been suspended (dreaded exhaust problem).

AFAIK.

Also AFAIK: Dacia Duster is cheap, but beware of rust and other problems.

If I would buy one, I'd have it sealed professionally and would try to find a decent dealer who doesn't want to upsell you into a Renault...

The upside is that for a 20k car, you don't need a 2500 CHF/year insurance - you can probably get by with much less (just liability).

Yearly services are apparently also much cheaper than VW et.al.

From forum posts in Dacia-forums I reckon that it's OK-ish to drive, but not for longer distances.

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The correct advice is to get a 10 year old Porsche Cayenne Turbo with 150000 km on the clock, fresh MFK and service, for half your budget: www.autoscout24.ch/4042870

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and hope that the defect part is not open

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We bought a Ford Maverick 3.0 with 90k for 3800, +800 for adding the trailer hitch.

Tom

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But you know a thing or two about cars.

You usually know what is broken and what it will cost to fix, what might break soon and what it would cost to fix.

People who come to this forum and ask these questions usually don't have this qualification.

There's TCS inspections - but you can do this only for so many cars before it's a financial drag. So, you have to narrow it down.

That A6 from a couple of weeks ago would probably also have worked for OP.

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Maybe a Suzuki!

http://www.suzukiautomobile.ch/?gcli...FQIcGwodRuQEUQ

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Good value car in general but at that price I guess it's going to be the 1.2l petrol which, based on a hire experience in Spain a couple of years ago, is seriously underpowered (couldn't even hold 120 Km/h uphill on a motorway). Better to go for a recent used diesel imo.

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Just make sure it's already EU6-compliant

Not sure if Volkswagen have actually for their problematic EU-5 Diesels...

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The diesel/petrol argument depends on the OP's expected traveling requirements.

There are strong arguments in favour of petrol when a car is used for shorter distances etc. Especially as new small capacity petrol engines are more powerful and fuel efficient.

Octavia 1.4 gives out 150bhp, enough for most people if not towing a caravan etc, etc.

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This one just got posted on EF

https://www.englishforum.ch/items-sa...enswil-zh.html

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How about the guarantee and service when I import new car ?

Can the local garage give the same service and guarantee with imported cars?

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It will depend on the brand

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Take a look at these - already imported so no paperwork hassles but most vehicles seem to come from EU and hence cheaper than Swiss models.

http://www.adu.ch/Autos.1.html#make=...f=&closeform=0

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With that dealer I gave the link for, says 4 year warranty, but you could see that for yourself if you bothered to look.

The only requisite is it gets serviced in an approved garage.

Don't buy any base spec model of any car, selling it will be an issue.

The Octavia Ambient+ seems decent spec.

How long will you keep it?

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Same guarantee and service unlikely as it is the importer that underwriters this essentially.

For instance a car purchased in Germany will have a 2 year guarantee from new, whereas a car sold by the Swiss importer is usually 3 years

"Free servicing" in included in the price, so there fore in my opinion it is not free, just paid up front simply.

Whilst this doesn't explain the huge differences in price between "Swiss" cars and parallel imports, it is something to take in to consideration when making your sums.

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Lets say min. of 5 years.

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So the warranty would have expired and the stigma of buying a grey import will have also gone.

Meantime if you have 20k then you can only get a base spec Octavia, could be fine for you though.

You could send them a mail and see what they can do.

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This should do the job as well, and you have change for insurance and winter wheels.

http://www.adu.ch/Ford_Focus_SW_10_S...um.v90246.html

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I have a VW Touareg R50 from 2010 - 20K and it ́s yours!

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Its Friday so I did some shopping for you! Now you got about 336 off roaders to test drive!

https://en.comparis.ch/carfinder/mar...g%22%3Anull%7D

Personally, I like this one: https://en.comparis.ch/carfinder/mar.../show/20383525

But I'm a sucker for green cars (Blend in best with the environment)