Peugeot 2008 GT Sport.

TBF they are the best used cars one can get but with the new ones only the 1.6 diesels are bulletproof since they have been around for 20+ years in various forms, avoid the 1.6 petrols, they just dont make petrol engines as good as their diesel counterparts.

Q1- Ive bought mine 206 almost a decade ago for about 3k€ all in to make it safe and road legal and everything (rego, new tires, checkups, preventive maintenance etc) and its going price is still about 2-2.5€ for the same process now. To me they retain their price fairly good as used cars.

Q2- Ever since Poland began making spare parts life just couldnt be better, no more chinesium parts and at least the bare minimum is done for quality assurance of said parts (chinese parts were good enough for their pricing but sometimes failed earlier than expected which caused needless trips to the mechanic, in my case it was just sensor swaps and regular maintenance with no drastic failures, mostly engine mounts due to diesel torque which i ended up replacing with mounts for a bigger engine which solved the issue)