Now we're ruled out the Citroen let's look at alternatives. What is your maximum budget and how are you financing it - cash or borrowing? Do you really need an MPV? How many miles roughly do you do in a year and is it mostly distance or local stop start driving?
Max budget is £4000 on finance, yes I need an MPV as I have 4 kids. Yearly miles prob about 15000.
Deary me, that is going to spring up some compromises as there are no 'perfect solutions' out there for your needs/budget!.
Looking on autotrader with £4k upper limit and 70k miles there wasn't very much to recommend.
As far as petrol goes, were it not for the auto requirement, the toyota corolla verso would probably your best bet, but at this age and budget the auto option is the 'multimode', which i think is an automated manual (SLO?), and if so, maybe best avoided. The mazda5 is a great option, but auto's are like hens teeth, currently 1 on autotrader (£3495). That leaves bigger buses like the ford galaxy and toyota previa, which are both reliable (especially the toyota), but will be thirsty.
With diesel, in addition to reliability questions, you need to think about which candidates may have DPF issues. But i noticed one kia carens 2.0 at £3695, and a couple of 2nd gen sedona's, which are pretty reliable and powerful, but not that economical (big old 2.9l engine).
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