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Can you recommend a small 4-door automatic hatchback for under £3000?

Becoming senior citizens, my wife and I have decided our existing car is no longer appropriate to our changed needs. We shall be looking for a small 4-door hatch, automatic, with a 1.4 engine although a 1.2 might be acceptable. Likely mileage is less than 3000 a year and almost all local short distances. We shall be trading in a 2007 Astra Life 1.8 automatic, FSH, under 30,000 miles. Budget-wise we will be looking for the trade-in on the Astra plus £2500 to £3000. We have been looking casually at possible boxy cars, and had not realised how many there now are and I should appreciate your suggestions of some we might consider

Asked on 14 September 2013 by RM, Macclesfield

Answered by Honest John
For the sort of money that your Astra is likely to raise plus £2500 to £3000, I suggest a Nissan Note 1.6 auto. You would have enough for an old shape Honda Jazz 1.5 CVT-7 up to 2008. But not for the current Jazz CVT-7 from 2010. Do not buy a 2009-2010 Jazz i-Shift. Smaller, a Suzuki Splash or Vauxhall Agila 1.2 automatic or Hyundai i10 1.2 automatic.
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