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Buying a car for high motorway miles

I need to buy a motorway cruiser to travel around 40k miles a year as economically and comfortably as possible.

I'm thinking of travelling at mainly in the outside lane, and spending around £10k to minimise depreciation (given the car will be worth a fraction of that after the 3 years I was thinking of keeping the car). Is this a reasonable premise? What car and engine type will best fit this need to compromise performance, cost and fuel economy without leaving me a wreck at the end of each journey, and where best to source it?

Asked on 5 February 2013 by Rob Rees

Answered by Honest John
If you put on 120k over 3 years the car will be virtually worthless. I don't know what would stand up to it without problems. I think probably a Mondeo 2.0TDCI would be your best bet. Econetic if you can find one because they will do 50mpg.

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