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How about one of the Skoda Superb 3.6 V6 estates?
Closer than £5K, ulez compliant and bigNo idea on how they drive or on reliability
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Probably overkill in terms of power for our purposes. Would be fun but I'd probably be more sensible going for a less fast Superb if we were going to. Which then seems a bit boring. Which is totally irrational. I suppose it's also that we had a skoda last and feel like something different.
Been reading up on E-classes and do sound fairly reliable. Can live without it being amazing on fuel as we don't do huge mileage aside from occasional scotland trip.
We had an old A class that kept going for ever despite me totally neglecting servicing+maintenance, so feel fairly positive about Mercedes in that respect. That's probably very irrational again.
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That's very kind of you but I think it'd make whatever we end up getting seem too disappointing in comparison.
A V70 still makes most sense really based on boot size and comfort, it's just the ULEZ thing really limits the choice. Plus buying such a high emissions car seems a bad thing. I don't know, really torn on whether to go for something more expensive or just try and get something for around 5k which doesn't require borrowing more money.