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Five door hatches are good.
Buy at auction.
Look for low mileage (under 30k)
Go to auction and see listing of cars. Pick at least 5 you would bid on. Write the details of each, go online to carsales.com and check prices. When you've picked your cars, settle in your mind a bid amount (60% of carsales.com prices). Get a mechanic to inspect all cars - arrange with auction house for this. Then go bid. (If a car is 'passed-in' ie: no-one bids higher than its reserve, go to aauctioneer afterwards, say "Oi! Ow much is on the Purrgoh then mate??" He says: "Two and a alf, mate". You say, "Uhh... will eeh take two??" The auctioneer will phone the owner in front of you, talk a bit, the owner will discover the car didn't sell, then the auctioneer will say "Yeh mate, Two fuuhsand" "Deal!" you say, pay the man, and walk/drive away happy.

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Oh dear PP, you've just been insulted by white van man

Have also been told French cars are w***. Also diesel Vauxhall are to kept away from as theres something with the turbo that goes around 60k which makes them dump all your oil and seizes the engine.

Have always had ford cars and vans and they all have been pretty good with nothing major going wrong.

Ha ha. I have got 10 white vans actually mate. But I drive a pick up, you know, the ones the pikeys have.

get yourself on the autotrader website or app and then just type in your preferences on the filters. this will give you a rough idea of what you want to be looking at.took me less than a minute to find a nice 5 door fiat 34k on clock 5 dr diesel in sw16 for £1999 which fits most of your criteria.

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Nope it's not my name

Citron make brilliant, diesels - the milage is legendary - My old Citron ZX even after being a rolling write off was getting 60 mpg in traffic, without any servicing or work on it.

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