neil955

congratulations and good luck for the forthcoming event!

Is the Polo reliable? no reason to suspect otherwise, but the last thing you want is for it to break down leaving wife & sprog stranded.
- also ensure that the baby seat you buy fits in both cars. Oh and do practice putting in/out of the car prior to fetching baby home for the first time!

Make sure the pram and/or buggy also fits in the boot of you chosen car, leaving sufficient space for other kit: baby bag, shopping etc. A low boot sill is a must.

then it comes down to a matter of preference - how safe is your chosen baby wagon? side impact bars etc etc.

as an alternative, the ford focus ticks all the above.

i'd sell the honda, but then, i've been saying that for some time too regarding mine and still haven't got round to it!

s3dgley

The Polo should be reliable as I know it's history and has been serviced every year despite the low mileage.

The car seat bit is a good point. We have done the test for the beater and it works, will do the Polo when we get it at the weekend but to be sure we have bought every conceivable fastening, seat, base etc that was offered for the pram. In fact we test drove several different prams (0-62 was rubbish on all of them) and bought the one that folded down the smallest which does fit in the S.

Right must go and finish the nursery...

Rapscallion

i have the same dilema but dont have a daily driver:

my wife was 2 months pregant when i got the S - infact it was all her idea in the 1st place to get a 2 seat sports car. i put it down to hormones

anyway our son was born in october and the car was off the road oct to jan but since jan i have done a grand total of 1350 miles.

i am unlikely to do more than another 2000 miles in the next 6 months.

so having run through various options the most efficient is to keep the car, even if it is hardly beeing used as in reality is we only ever did 7000-8000 miles a year with 1 car. Even if i got a fast 4 seater, say m3, i'm hardly going to kain it with wife and kid and its back to the 3000-4000 miles / year I'm driving by myself

in your shoes i would use the S as a daily driver as even a 98 polo is not going to be that cheap to keep on the road. edit having seen 1000 per week, thats quite a lot!

grantedS2k

1000 miles a week is too much, I did this and my S now has 110k on the clock and is practically worthless to anyone else!

Keep the BMW as the beater and give the wife the polo (unless it really is too small for the push chair you have bought - our corsa was fine for short journeys!), but be savvy with the costs: for a start, get a fleet insurance policy with your wife as a named driver.

s3dgley

All good advice.

We have a policy for each car at the moment which totals I guess around

grantedS2k

I'm convinced it would! Start with talking to an insurance broker, they usually get the best fleet deals...