Arnold said:
Define 'better'
They're reliable cars, quite comfy and handle well with a couple of changes! Ok they dont have the pace of a focus etc but far less likely to blow up!
well, il use my car as an example, i paid £2000 for my W reg micra with 24K miles on the clock, FSH and mint condition, then lets say for the sake of it that the average amount spent on doing up a micra all in is about £4000 (and i mean if we talking posh bodykits, alloys, turbos and all the other stuff ive seen on here)
so for £6000 if u look on aotutrade3r u can go for the luxury(and i mean this as in not stripped out boy racer novas and stuff, things that are actualy nicely modded) modded rides like a 106 quicksilver show car, agreed not as fast as sum cars and it is french, but they are nice.
if you want summit fast, you can pick up a mazda RX7 for just over £6000 these days, or a honda CRX del-sol VTi show car, fully modified and "pimped" (so to speak) 160 BHP VTEC engine doing 0-60 in around 7-9 seconds
agreed the honda and mazda may well be high milega, but i know a person with a honda civic SiR and his car has done well over 100K and runs perfect coz honda engines last forever
for about £2000 alone (the price of my micra) ya can get a ford escort RS turbo, much faster, and if cared for the engines will last forever (gf's bro has one runs perfect)
i could go on all day naming cars which are better than micras, and i just think that spending silly amounts of money on a micra is a waste of time, coz at the end of the day its still a micra really