Need to buy a daily, need ideas what to buy, Excels, swifts? Dont care how small it is, just need first hand experience on this,

... Quote: I'd rather push a V8 then drive a Hybrid

LOL well spotted, that has been my signature since near join date, but in all seriousness. I do need ideas for a daily

4cyl magna on gas

My starlets awesome cost me 500 with 9 months of rego all she needed was an engine mount. $40 petrol = 500km Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Ba on gas ! Costs me $60/70 for a 1000kay I paid 2200 for a trashed ba!

Anything small, small and diesel, or small and gas. Or a motorbike.

Really any modern Japanese 4 cylinder will be reliable and good on fuel

cheers guys, lookin at the auction catalogue as we speak

It really depends on what sort of driving you do with it, like my VY SS Commodore is good on fuel on the open road where I drive it to work on the highway for an hour, I got about 10.4L/100 kms on Caltex Vortex 98 and the car also had an air leak. I expect to get about 10-11 L/100 kms out of that car on the highway, this is what I consider good fuel economy, I hope to better that figure now the car is running at 100% capacity. What you interpret as good fuel economy may be different, if your after something that gets 5-6 L/100 kms and you drive around the city, something like a Hyundai Getz or a Starlet or something would be more in your favour. I'm also a big bloke so I drive a big car.

my big heavy hilux gets 8L/100kms

I've got an 89 Mitsubishi Mirage Station Wagon & i swear by it, cheap as chips to run & reliable as hell. Was working in wrecking yards for years & these were one car that just kept going & going, so that's what i bought 2 years ago for a daily. They have the 4G15 1500cc engine in them so good round town or the open road, mines never missed a beat since I've had it. 6 hour drive to do today and that's what I'm going in ;-)

toyota corolla, very reliable and easy to maintain