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Looked at Cooper S’s, Cupras, 1 series BMW, Type R & S Civics among others.
Ended up with a 5 door 1.8 Civic Ex, same performance as the Type S but with more doors. Comfy and a pleasure to drive, muchly economical and has a cavernous boot and the rear seats fold completely flat (great for loading bikes). Mine was £3400 08 plate 50k miles and full Honda service history with 10 stamps.
Pretty dull but I’m mighty happy with it.
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My Audi appears to have a terminal failure in the autobox - massive oil leak, now fixed & refilled but still clunky and can't select reverse. Quotes of north of £1k to fix and seeing the car is worth £1.5k at best, looks like time to replace...
I really fancy an R53 Mini Cooper S, anything I should know? Any other ideas for budget approx £3k? Needs 4 seats, some practicality, less than 100k miles, reasonably sporty & individual.