el_presidente-
Awesome, thank you, and to @grams, @hurricane_run, @Fox and @hugo7. Should've mentioned I'm in the city so as a petrol it would need to be something newer than 2006 for the ULEZ. Really good shout on the VED Tax, grams, I hadn't even considered that. The Saab is utterly beautiful but comes up as £565 a year!
The focus / fiesta was one I was considering but the rear windows on those always felt a bit cramped to me compared to the golf / polo - I'll see if I can have another sit in one, it might've been a wrong impression. Cheers all.
Mini is SUCH a great shout though. I had semi-written them off because my sis has one and I don't want to bite her steeze but there a tonne of nicely specced Coopers and Cooper S from 2012 and under £6k. And they're such great fun to drive, and so nice for a small car on the motorway. Appreciated.
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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:
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.