Anyone know about reliability etc of Peugeots!

I think that has been done and dusted, nice cars but for a single mother I don't think they would be good value for money

Listing 435348188 worth a go Wasser if you are game for a bit of work, not much else about at the moment.

Now that just exudes class.I like it

89 is perfectly acceptable, like I said anything under 100 is generally fine. You have to read the list properly and comprehend what you are looking at.

Many of your common similarly sophisticated vehicles like the Mondeo, Mazda 6, Toyota Avensis etc usually sit in the 70-80 points range so its not far off those.

Your "Knowing for a fact" about paying extra to own older European cars is rubbish. If you are paying extra its because you are choosing to pay extra or not being savy in your choices.

I have had many many European cars of that age group and older and my running costs and total cost of ownership on these vehicles is carefully monitored.

Its actually the out of warranty 5 - 10 year old (at time of purchase) vehicles that usually work out the cheapest to own. You are benefiting from the high initial depreciation and the right vehicle bought at the right time will lose very little in a few years of ownership.

Look at my Punto I sold for $6500 4 years ago, I would easily get $5500 selling the same thing again today.(70K on clock lovely condition, Abarth alloys, fully serviced from new etc)

Very similar story with my Multipla and Marea I have now and the various others over the years.

Despite running all of these "high risk" Euro's I rarely do anything that isn't schduled maintenance, any parts I buy are very well priced. Even if I was paying a garage to do the work (as I did when I was busy with the business) I paid very little.

With all due respect I think you need to actually experience some older Euro's (more than one), take careful notes and be savy about how you deal with them before "knowing things for a fact".

I have been there, done that, bought the T Shirt and gone and done it again over and over with the same result almost every time.

BTW, if anyone is curious. Generally maintenance and depreciation on my Euro's bought at 5-12 years old runs to less than $1000 a year when I tally it up at sale time. The older ones are usually under $500 and that includes things like tyres etc as well as full and proper servicing. (basically everything except fuel, insurance and wof/reg)

I do do my own maintenance but if paying labour it wouldn't add that much to it at the end of the day.

a peugeot! i wouldnt bother unlessits manual.

i bought my daughter a 2000 pug 406 last year, it has been great so far very economical (2.0lt petrol 5spd) nice to drive full of safety features, cheep to buy for what you get, nice big boot. nothing bad to say about it.

"reliability" and "Peugeots" in the same sentence would be called an Oxymoron.

Good choice, I had a 1997 406 2.0 petrol auto and found it a great car to drive and own. It had a few little niggly faults but they were easily fixed. I would much prefer the ride of a 406 over an Accord, Camry, Corona, Bluebird, Galant or other yawn-worthy cars of the same period. The ride was so smooth and supple yet when you threw it into a corner it remained solid and firm and very predictable with no floating around everywhere like the Japanese cars tend to do.

Yes just like "Toyota" and "Excitement" really.

nahh mate--Toyota CAN make exciting cars -they mostly CHOOSE not to.
Whereas Peugeot seem incapable of building reliable cars.