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Older Rover 200/400/600 is a good idea. Cheap as all hell and as long as you don't get a K series car it will be reliable as they were built alongside their honda equivalents.
You see a lot of the old square shape 200/400s on the road still, and there's a good reason for it. By and large they don't rust and nothing ever goes wrong. They were cracking cars and it's a shame that Rover followed them up with pieces of shit. 1.4s are really cheap to insure and are very fast for a 1.4. It is the K series but it was originally designed, not as subsequently ruined by BMW and MGR. 1.6s are the Honda engine as found in the Civic. 2 litres are the M or T series and are bombproof. Diesels are L series and reliable. The 400 tourers still look really classy.
600s are still handsome, especially in dark blue or racing green and they all had either Honda engines (the 2.3 goes wrong, the 2.0 doesn't) or the nutter turbo 2.0 T series. Insurance is probably no good for you.