• 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.

  • If you can find a 1.8t (which is still a 2.0 litre turbo, because Saab) they're a much more reasonable £335. Still plenty fast.

    The ULEZ isn't a hard date cutoff. Plenty of manufacturers had Euro 4 certified petrol engines a few years before then, and that's what matters.

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