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Can you suggest a car with high seating?

My wife is a youthful pensioner and wants to change to a car with a high seating position like Skoda Yeti, Nissan Qashqaii etc which can be new or nearly new and which ideally will have a sun roof that opens. Use will mainly be for short runs and occasional long trip. Most of the time it be used by my wife alone and sometimes with both of us and occasional with additional passengers.

Car will cover 4000 miles annually. She currently has a Skoda Fabia Elegance Auto with sunroof and many extras which does everything she wants but she does not find it exciting. What car/s can you recommend that would be worth getting as a final and last car. that would also be economical to run?

Asked on 25 April 2014 by Wacky the Wizard

Answered by Honest John
For this sort of use it will have to be petrol. So could be a Yeti 1.2TSI or 1.4TSI, Ford B-Max 1.0 Ecoboost, Ford C-Max 1.0 Ecoboost, KIA Venga, Hyundai ix20 (ix20, not i20), Qashqai 1.2DIG-T. That's a start.
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