Buying an easy access car, please recommend

My wife suffers wife a back problem and needs a new car which she can "climb" into rather than "drop" into. Please suggest a car, we would prefer AWD & automatic transmission. Having read earlier advice from Honest John's column we want to avoid DMF and prefer chain-drive valve timing. Our budget is up to £25k.

Asked on 8 February 2012 by rjt

Answered by Honest John

Toyota Verso 1.8 Valvematic Multidrive S, Honda CR-V 2.0i automatic, Toyota RAV-4 2.0i Valvematic Multidrive S, KIA Sportage 2.0CRDI auto.

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