Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Lovely thing, was looking at that a few days ago.

Black and white pic stolen from a friends FB, yesterday somewhere in north london, apparently the safari was also used as a filming car something to do with the suspension.

Nice but,

i think that's an ID not a DS due to the non hydraulic brakes..
and it's a 1970 not a 72
lot of work done on it though by the sound of things!

My uncle had one of those when I was growing up, with the hydraulics. Amazing looking thing, like a sleek whale. Absolutely loved it.

Bit of a boring question and possibly not the right forum for it (this clearly is much more about car appreciation than advice) but if anyone does have any advice for me I'd greatly appreciate. I've got £6k to spend on a city car - I've not owned a car for a good 15 years, so I don't really know much about modern cars. Don't need anything huge or fast, just something reliable which won't feel completely delicate on the motorway, FSH, 80k miles, decent marque, petrol, some resell value. I don't have kids so a two seater is fine but it'd be nice to take my niece out for trips from time to time.

I've been looking on Autotrader and getting insurance quotes and the range of cars available to me, and insurable, is mental:

• VW Polo, about 8 years old
  
• VW Golf, about 10 years old
  
• Saab 93 convertible, about 10 years old
  
• BMW Z4, about 12 years old
  
  

Any advice? I've got off street parking in front of my window so I can afford to go a bit flash but I wonder if I'm just being a bit mid-life crisis-y about the whole thing. A grey german box would do the job.