Astra or Focus are medium sized estates, useful size without being too big. I've not checked the interior space but I think they will be similar to the Golf.

First post..hi everyone

Looking for a list of the smallest used estate cars out there for less than £5k

Sounds odd I know, estate means big but I asking for small lol

My son is only 20 and happy with hatchbacks but he need to move gear around now so looking for the small estate cars. I know the Mk4 golf estate is small but are there any others in that sort of bracket

cheers

Edited to be clearer,ORB

Fabia estate? skoda rapid est?

Petrol, diesel, manual (don't toch the autos at that price.

First off, 'gear' is kind of vague, what is he moving around?.

Second, there are estate versions of pretty much every common car in the Golf class. So Ford Focus, Vauxhall Astra, Kia Ceed, Hyundai i30, Renault Megane, etc, etc.

Skoda Fabia estate is from the next size down, i.e, Polo sized. In that class there is also the Renault Clio, Seat Ibiza, Renault Clio and Peugeot 208.

There is also the MPV type cars, such as Nissan Note, Ford Fusion and B-Max, Kia Venga and Hyundai ix20.

The Skoda Rapid and its Seat Toledo twin don't come as estate's, though they do have enormous boots.

Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra estates are both worthy of consideration at this money. I’d forget diesels as they’re much more likely to expensively wrong and I’d avoid Fords awful Powershift autos. VAG products such as the Skoda Fabia and Seat Ibiza at this money are limited by engine options which mean either spending more for a later belt driven tsi petrol, taking risks with the troublesome diesels or accepting woeful performance.