We don't know your budget so it's difficult to give advice.

If you need a small, narrow car you could look at the Toyota Aygo (or Peugeot 107 / Citroen C1, but Toyota dealers are generally better), new or secondhand according to budget.

If you can afford a new car, there's the VW Up (or Skoda Citigo / SEAT Mii) which is well thought of by most, although our regular poster Collos knows someone who has had a bad one.

My daughter is very happy with her Hyundai i10, which looks fairly narrow to me. The 1.2 is worth having over the 1.0.

If you want to stick with Ford, there's nothing wrong with another Fiesta, or the Ka is smaller still.

Edited by Avant on 13/02/2014 at 11:13

Style etc are trim levels.

I am not 100% but they go Edge, Style, Zetec, Titanium, Titanium X. I am not sure if they make Ghia anymore.

These just adds alloys, interior packs, bluetooth, appearance packs, satnav etc.

The closer to Tit X you are the higher spec it is.

Thanks for advice given, will consider points raised.

Regards

I would recommend a new Ford Ka. I've had mine for over two years after having a Nissan Micra (old Shape) and I have been very happy with it. It is a 1.25 engine, £35 tax, low insurance and 50mpg on local journeys. Mine is the basic Studio model, then there's the Edge then Zetec, just depends what extras you want.

Taking a Fiat Doblo in for a service recently, the dealer had 2 latest shape Ford ka's in the service bay.

They had been directed there by the ford main dealers who did not know how to solve an issue.

With the cars being out of warranty, Ford had no requirement to do anything to them but recommended to the owners to take their cars to the Fiat dealers.

I had a similiar experience with my Ford Galaxy, Ford couldnt fix the ABS fault and told me to take it to Seat.

The current Ford KA is a Fiat 500 with a Ford badge

Except Ford (being the great chassis engineers they are) produced a vastly better rear suspention setup for the Ka which Fiat later copied for the snap-oversteer-happy 500.