I'm thinking about a new family car to replace our Saab 9-5 Estate as it's 10 years old and very expensive to run. But it's also very nice to travel over distance in and sufficiently swift. So what should we replace it with? Requirements are that it's a good load-lugger, ability to sit 6-footers front and back, reliable, well-equipped and economical to run. I prefer autos, although am wary of DSG type gearboxes as an expensive issue, but manuals these days often means DMF - another potential huge expense. I do 15-18,000 miles annually, but a lot of this is short journeys of 20 miles or so, interspersed with longer trips, so not necessarily suited to diesel. I'd want to run it for five years and have about £13,000 budget.