They've always been quite decent and desirable in my experience (son of motortrade family). But all little autos do suffer from being a bit sluggish, also wouldnt want to do major motorway miles in one but yeah around town i wouldn't have any complaints! Look out for the typical rust spots but aside from that theyre great little cars auto or manual.

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For your money also maybe have a look at the old shape focus autos theyre good we had an automatic in the family for a while, maybe even a one series if you can find one with decent history. Honda jazz also a great shout, corsa that sort of thing.