Car specifications

[westernind]

Arrggh, my google-fu is failing. Does anyone know a site where I can find specifications of cars - including older and more boring ones? This isn't to get the 0-62mph performance figure for an Aston Martin, oh no, far less interesting.

The "Toshiba Corolla" mobile household appliance is gonna get replaced shortly. It's still perfectly reliable, but frankly looks too scratty for forbinproject to be able to use to get to a client site. In order to fit on our drive, whatever car I buy has to be no more than 4.15 metres long. Any more and it sticks out onto the pavement. It's relatively easy to find new car specs but I'm looking at 6-10 years old. We do less than 4,000 miles a year and I'm looking at spending around £2,500.

(And another thing. 'Body-coloured bumpers', what's the point of them then? Surely it just means that if you accidently knock something, let's say just for the sake of argument my kitchen wall, between which wall and the front of the car there is sufficient clearance to get approximately 3 sheets of medium thick cardboard in order to avoid pavement-juttage, then the bumper immediately gets chipped. Style over functionality, bah!)

Comments

[dragonzgrace.livejournal.com]

Ok I may be saying something rather nasty here, so forgive me. but rather than using the net, you could go out and get a pakers car guide, I know how wrong is that saying not using the net.
Parker cost a couple of quid, and has most cars makes and models, what spec level, size and insurance group too.

K

[westernind.livejournal.com]

Ah - it's not prices I was after, it was dimensions.
But Parkers website has that. Thank-you!

[jfs.livejournal.com]

The problem with the printed Parkers guide is that it doesn't cover cars over (I think) 10 years old - certainly a couple of years ago when we bought an 'R' reg car, the Parkers Guide wasn't any use, whereas the Parkers online guide covers their whole database, going back at least 20 years.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I think my Clio 1.2 would come in those specs, I've found it to be a fantastic car and it even has the lowest tax grade available for a everyday petrol car (the road tax cost actually went *down* recently!)

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

How about http://www.garageplans.co.uk/enter.html?target=pg_51.html&lang=garageplans ?

[westernind.livejournal.com]

Nice. Thanks!