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I would like to buy fuel economic car, less maintenance and more space.

Possible conditions : less than 8k$ and year from 2010 an less than 1lakh km.

From my search available options found were:

1)Nissan Tiida
2)Nissan Note
3)Honda Fit
4)Suzuki Swift
5)Honda Insight but price higher

Of the following which would be the best option.What are the positives and cons.

I am getting the car thinking to drive uber part-time and there would be occasional long drives.

Any other suggestions.

Thank you for the reply.

Hi there,
All these cars are quite popular and have small efficient engines combined with the CVT (1-speed) transmission. The downside to these transmission types in the Nissan and Honda is that they have been regularly complained about due to shuddering, and sometimes can be a costly exercise to remedy if this happens and often 2004-2008 year vehicles complained about of the last few years. So newer vehicles have either had problems corrected or the vehicles are still a bit new to have any complaints about as yet. The Swift has been an extremely popular car and proven to be quite reliable. Toyota Corolla is a pretty good option, or Mazda Axela.

but even at price range higher the toyota corolla would have run 2lakh plus km .would it be wise to buy a car that crosssed 2lakh km