Well I think a car is more than just the money aspect, it has to be ‘right’ for you as you’ll ideally live with it for 3 to 5 years. Go check em out, plus any others that take your fancy and you’ll find you’ll whittle em down as you go.
So far we’ve discounted Mazda CX5, BMW X1, BMW Active Tourer, VW Tiguan, Seat Ateca, Nissan XTrail, Nissan Qashqai, Honda CRV, Citroen C5 Aircross, and DS7
Plus Mrs Mac has discounted the Kia Sportage, Skoda Kodiaq, Skoda Karoq, and Toyota Rav4 for being “too fugly” ?
All good cars in my eyes but dropped off the list for one reason or another.
We’re looking at XC40 or Tucson at the minute.
New Kuga will be around soon so that may be of interest to you.
As for old model / new model depends if that sort of thing bothers you or not. Run out models can be bargains, look at how Ford pulled the price down on the outgoing Kuga to clear stocks, that didn’t make it a bad car. Too small for us otherwise I may have had a closer look at one