If my back gets to the point where I can no longer limbo into a regular height car seat (i.e. I need to replace the current Golf) then the Mini Countryman is still the strongest contender. Though I confess to casting a glance or two towards the Mazda CX 30 SEL Lux but with an AP of £2k as of this morning, that’s just not going to happen – unless/until it gets cheaper again.
<Pipe Dream Alert!>
The Beemer I was daydreaming about was actually the 2 series Gran Coupe Sport. (Assuming my spine does manage to hold out for a few more years.) Yesterday the AP was a reasonable £749, this morning it is £1,249. I’m not fan of BMW – as you say, they’re mostly ugly brutes at the moment – but . . . People blather on about the M Sport, but that doesn’t come in Seaside blue and Seaside blue is what I wants. It’s a ‘girl thing’, I’m afraid. Who cares if it drinks like a fish and drives like a swine! (It doesn’t do either – I checked.) I passed one coming the other way when I was wiggling around the back lane on Hayling, and it’s as nice in the flesh as it is in the piccies. It looked almost lavender.