Which of these individual £3k cars should I get?

[behappier]

It's got to be an alfa. Ok biased, I had a GTV for 4 years and now a 156
The 156 is a very good value car. You can have a look at www.alfaowner.com for advice. In that price range, you can pick up a decent one, usually looked after.

[[DW]Cougho]

You could also consider one of my all time fave second-hand buys: the Vauxhall Omega. It's German built and rear wheel drive but it *may* look like a posh minicab. However, it is a great second-hand bargain.

Yeh i loved our omega, it had 145k on the clock when we got rid of it but the engine still purred and used no oil at all. Handled like a dream for its size and was reasonably quick too (2.5 v6).

Only thing you need to watch is the paintwork, which is abysmal, our 98S was bubbling at the tops of the doors, where there is a rubber gutter for the rain (and this was with no accident damage). Also our car had a tendancy of going through cats rather quickly, dunno if its a common problem but we had 2 fail in 20k (and they werent the originals either).