Thanks very much for your recommendation, in the end we found a 2010/59 KIA cee’d 1.6 EcoDynamics CRDi estate for £8500 (with £4500 p/e for our 2005 Sportage). We are very pleased with it and it seems to have more power that the Sportage did, but with vastly better economy, mostly in the 35mpg (accelerating hard) to 52mpg (average driving) region. Very nice car, comfortable, quality seems very good. Will give it a couple of months and then will put a review up on your site.