Used Ford Galaxy cars for sale

Overview

Ok, we get it, the Ford Galaxy isn’t going to warm your heart. It’s more about practicality, but Ford have clearly worked hard to ensure it’s got the quality edge over more utilitarian rivals. And that’s more than enough to win people over.

What you need to know about the Ford Galaxy

The Galaxy boasts excellent on-road manners – with smooth suspension and impressive refinement, it’s a car to eat up the miles in. It closely resembles Ford’s popular S-Max, sharing the same mechanical underpinnings, although it favours practicality over sportiness.

Inside, there’s a lot of space. In fact, in our review, the impressively vast cabin was the main attraction. With room for seven people, it’s popular with taxi drivers and families. Front and mid-row passengers get the most space and visibility, but the occasional third seats are probably best for children over longer journeys. When collapsed beneath the boot, they reveal a huge space. There are a lot of stowage compartments and neat design details too, boosting practicality further.

For drivers, the position is almost as high as you’d get in a 4x4, making it easier than you’d imagine to navigate in tight spaces. The Galaxy is surprisingly good to drive, even soaking up bumps when it’s full of passengers – avoiding much of the sway you’d typically get in corners.

What to watch out for

Most of the cabin has a quality look and feel, but some areas do let the Galaxy down – flimsy-feeling plastics on the dashboards, for instance. Opt for Titanium spec if you can, and avoid the 115bhp engine in a car this large. It’s also worth mentioning that engine performance was improved mid-2010.

Other options

• Ford S-Max
• SEAT Alhambra
• Vauxhall Zafira

Expert opinion

The Galaxy delivers all you’d want from a people carrier, and more. Not only is it practical, but the drive puts you at ease – it handles obediently and you needn’t worry about lean too much. Both in towns or at speed on the motorway, you’ll be impressed with the responsive engines, crisp gear change and smooth clutch.

Why buy a used Ford Galaxy with Exchange and Mart?

The Ford Galaxy has, by dint of sheer doggedness, become the standard by which large MPVs are judged. It's a hardy perennial of the sector, always there or thereabouts when challenging for class honours, representing a durable benchmark from which rivals measure their success or failure. Used buyers have long recognised the Galaxy's qualities. Yes, there are more adventurously styled MPVs and there are others with more prestigious badges but for sheer breadth of ability and the unerring capacity to hit the marks that really matter for family buyers, the Galaxy's been hard to beat. Here's what to look for when tracking down a post-2010 facelifted Mk III version.

About the Ford Galaxy

The Galaxy is one of the few large MPVs that offers the driver something in the way of enjoyment, but the fact that it does this with improved reliability and undiminished practicality has seen it cement its place at the top table of family transport.We'd recommend this facelifted post-2011 MK3 model over earlier versions of the third generation Galaxy range and look for a 140 or 163PS diesel model, possibly trying to find a low mileage car with the Powershift auto transmission. It's hard to get things too badly wrong here though. This Galaxy's a solid product.