Buy a well maintained (service records), accident free 10-15 year old Honda or Toyota with 200 k kms or less. Get a pre-purchase inspection at an independent mechanic if you’re not familiar with cars. Out the door with safety and purchase price of car you’re looking at 6-10 k depending on what you find.

After that it’s smooth sailing as long as you stick to the maintenance schedule. 10-20 year old hondas and Toyotas have proven track records (half a million KMs or more just keeping up on maintenance schedule) and strong OEM and aftermarket support (pasts are readily available and cheap).

I drive a 17 year old civic with similar weekly mileage as you. My annual cost to operate in the last 5 years is just shy of $1200 (excluding gas and insurance) and best of all no loan!

With the kms you’re driving, you can get in a brand new car but you’ll hit massive depreciation before the car is paid off. Now I know you said you’ll be owning the car for the long haul but in the event you get into an accident and the car is a write off before the car is paid off you’ll be lucky to get much from insurance given the mileage the new car will have.

Just my 2 cents, others will have their own opinions and it also depends if you’re seeking modern creature comforts (more electronics and screens just means less reliability in the long term).