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[Viral_Jim]

Of all the cars posted so far, I'd go with the 406  .

The (glacially slow) 90bhp is the one to have as there's no DMF. It also has old school injectors so no £1000+ failures, no DPF etc etc. I would say 78k would classify as barely run in on one of those!

[Marks DTM Calib]

It seems like one of TB & Al must be wrong ..

TB says they lag behind European designs.
Al says they use European engines and that's why they're not worth considering.

*scratches head*

 

2.2dci Almera motor is deffo Renault's

Actually, its a bit of a bastardised lump using bits from all over the place, the bottom end is definitely Renault and potentially also the head but, other bits are Nissan.

Means it suffers the usual random Renault catastrophic mechanical failures

[henryd]

Of all the cars posted so far, I'd go with the 406  .

The (glacially slow) 90bhp is the one to have as there's no DMF. It also has old school injectors so no £1000+ failures, no DPF etc etc. I would say 78k would classify as barely run in on one of those!

My old one(110) is now close to 240k miles and going strong

[Marks DTM Calib]

Regardless of make, it does like nice for an estate. IIRC the 2.4 JTD is the 5 pot version of the 1.9cdti fitted into the Vauxhalls. I'm surprised the VX diesel people haven't noticed this, as the 1.9 is tunable - but there is no replacement for displacement.

Yes it is, none fitted to the GM range, only the Fiat family saw them

[aaronjb]

And never, ever buy a Renault 

My first car was a Renault 5 1.1. Despite the claims of EVERYTHING electrical would fail, it didn't - perhaps because there wasn't anything electrical. Even a clock and a glovebox door were options 

The same with my R5 GTT.. the electrical bits always worked. I killed two turbos and the padding was falling out of the seats as yellow dust, but apart from that it was perfect