What used car would you reccomend for £6000? (UK)?

My car has to be multi-functional. I need it for motorway trips every couple of months and running around the city daily. I also like smaller cars and need to keep insurance and fuel costs down. Any ideas for little cars with a little style that can manage long distance/high speed travel?

Answers:
Audi A4, VW pasat, Mazda 6 or Toyota Avensis are all good cars, and today most 2.0litre engines are only fractionally more expensive to run than supermini's. All are reasonably stylish and wheras a supermini will definitely struggle to travel on motorways (even today with modern 1.4Injection engines they don't have the weight to stay planted at high speeds), and there really is no point getting a car between the two. Cars such as the Focus, Megane, Golf etc are never ANY cheaper to buy, insure or run, and while they are very good, they won't ever match an equivical car from the class above as the manufacturers will deliberately avoid that to ensure the dearer cars sell. Unless you are afraid of parking and manuvering a car these 4 are probably your best and most balanced options. Mercedes and BMW today are fairly unreliable, Mercedes in particular, so this rules these out also.
i would go for a japanese car if you want reliability,toyota,mazda.
My Peugeot 206 does me the job I travel 70 miles a day and I don't drive slow and I've had no probz with it, but they are quite common (but most little cars are), they are nice nippy cars and are cheap on insurance!
6000 take your pick menganes are a nice cheap to run car
buy a second hand merc, or a volvo.. the merc 220 does 50mpg and my volvo (2.4 tdi) does 40mpg. they dont break down, and they hold their value.

would your rather admit to a second hand peugeot or vauxhall, or a Merc.
NO cars are really bad these days, all down to personal taste. Just avoid things like Mercs and BMW's - not the sort of car you want to admit owning - terrible image!
How about a Toyota aygo, citroen C1 they are around 6000 new
Sounds like a 2003 Audi A2 1.4 TDi SE would suit you down to the ground
buy a horse and cart hehehehe

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