I passed my driving test what is the best cars for tall guys?
DigitalPerv
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I live in London and don't have a clue about this thing but I just passed my test at 29 and hope to get a decent looking car that has had a previous owner and problem is I'm abut 6 ft 6 and I've got about £2670 to spend. So half of that will be for a deposit. How much do most people spend on insurance a year and what would be a "cheap" price range for me to look for?
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2) Golf TSI 1.2/Renault Clio Expression 1.2
3) Direct Line offer the best deals for those in their late 20s/early 30s but also consider doing a Pass Plus course, also find out if somebody else has Direct Line car insurance in your household also as this will reduce the insurance significantly.
No such car. If I were you OP, I'd be looking at some flavour of 1.6 Focus. You can pick up a half-decent one for around a grand.
I do apologise I meant the TSI.
..What has the OP done to you that you want to send him to the garage often?
Nothing wrong with Vauxhalls. I don't drive one personally but OH has never driven anything else and we've never had a problem with them...Ive had more problems with my Audi
Mine's been fine so far (Insignia SRi VX-Line Diesel). Ironically, I was having a lot of trouble with my old BMW which made me swap it. Had loads of bother with one of the first Audi TTs when they came out too. Just pot luck really.
The Insignia would fit the OP, I'm over 6' and have no problem, but I find the wide sills force me to kind of dive into it head first.
I'm not exactly lanky, at 5' 10½", but every Renault I've driven, I've struggled to avoid my head touching the headlining.
(OK, so I've only driven 5 or 6 Renaults so far - but it does show a general trend - Other than sportscars, I've only experienced one other car where I couldn't get the seat low enough to avoid the headlining - a Honda Accord, many years ago)
Even a Laguna I had a few yrs back - A fair-sized car, so it was a surprise that even with the seat as low as it'll go, I still kept brushing the headlining with the top of my head.
Only way to stop it was to lean the seat way back like a racing driver,
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121217083538/simpsons/images/6/60/Very_Tall_Man.jpg
I'm tall too so this will be useful to me when I drive lol.
A Focus is fine but if you have to push the seat all the way back, there isn't much leg room in the back. My other half is tall and one of our cars is a Focus. When he's driving, there's always a rush to get the passenger side rear seat!
Gah... you go there ahead of me :mad:
How about this one? http://www.toyotaofnaperville.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/00000000000001-Tall-Drivers.jpg
Me too. The (top of the range) Volvo we had broke down so often (and usually within seconds of you hitting a motorway) that my kids called it "The Silver Shit". I have had Vauxhalls ever since and in ten years only one breakdown.:D
Best "cheap" car for a tall guy IMHO (I'm 6'4") is a Vauxhall Astra. Or it was around 2000 when I had to buy one. Have driven 4x4 since then.
Unless they havechanged significantly - but as someone else pointed out alot of Vauxhalls / GM seem to have good head / leg room.