I am considering buying a car to keep at my holiday home in France. I know I could continue renting but I’m spending about £2,500 pa on that, plus what the rest of the family spend when they go there. The second hand market in France demands crazy prices eg a 4 year old but very clean Peugeot 206 with 60,000km at €8,400 (£7,300). However, I can get a new Opel Agila Enjoy 1.0 petrol with aircon for €9,500 (£8,260). It seems to me that it would be better to buy new and benefit from a manufacturers warranty than risk a second hand car with perhaps a 3 month dealer warranty for the sake of £1,000. I mostly need it for local running around with the odd round trip of 200 miles or so. It must be able to carry two adults and three grandchildren but not much luggage. Nothing flashy, it doesn’t need to have brilliant roadholding abilities. I don’t need satnav or MP3 players and Bluetooth, etc.