You're crackers paying 7k for a *new* poverty spec supermini.
Spend half the amount on a medium mileage barge (130TDCi Mondeo Ghia Xs can be had for that much apparently). They'll have all the toys, will leave those little crap boxes for dead, don't cost much to run, and are a really nice drive.
You won't spend hours agonising about redlines, because it's a turbo, you press the loud pedal (that'll be the squeak, whine or "wind the elastic band up" pedal in your current car).
Mine gets me about 50mpg for day to day driving round, and I got 63 on an economy drive once (that was a shade under 700 miles on a tank, with plenty left). The insurance is the cheapest for any car I've ever had (about £300 a year), the road tax is the same (IIRC) as my wife's 1.2 Polo. That's the silly thing - Her polo has 1-3 the power, 1-4 the torque, but costs the same to run.
Spend even less on an "almost clbuttic". You can buy mid 80s Mercs for beer money these days.
If you go for a diesel one, they'll last *forever*
You won't be bothered about parking spaces, because you can just force the proles (in their superminis) out of the way, because you've got a Merc.0
You won't need to worry about boot space either. When we go away, we load pram, travel cot, toys, clothes for us and a toddler, and don't have to put *anything* in the pbuttenger compartment.
You can actually get an entire divan bed and matress and *almost* close the boot lid, when you put the seats down.
Just live a little - try something different.
Pete.
0 I buttume it's the car that does it, not that push people buy them?
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