I had a puma years ago 1.7 lux in black....hmm nice cars....looked at the 2 in the works carpark today though and the wheel arches are full of rust....

personally both cars you have in mind are very good, and if you've got a decent ford garage near you it might be worth sticking to a brand you know. but I would have no worries about going back to Seat, after my wife owned an ibiza for 3 years. the dealer was alway helpful and in the 3 years we ran the car it only went to the dealer for its yearly service. ie no water leaks or any issues like that.

if your only going to keep it a short time, rather than running it until it drops the fiesta would be the easy choice as they alway sell very very easily on the second hand market.

why would a leon be out of budget there a good price second hand and 9k would get a pretty new one. But what would the teenage daughter think of the leon there a bit "mumsey" people carrier size......sn*****....

paul.

both cars will have superb rear visability compaired to the puma....and headlights that light up the road rather than just look nice.....can you tell i really did have a puma...oh yes and when its raining you can open the boot quickly without water getting onto the rear parcel shelf......corr and they where interesting to reverse hahaha and if you had an adult in the back they would moan about rear headroom.....but the handling was superb

sounds like a good time to replace the puma then. And if the local Ford dealer isn't all that its cracked up to be, it might well be worth a look around the local Seat dealer.

once sold a S40 volvo with a really low milage because I was going to run!! yep really the 3 miles to work....(shower at work), had a dad and daughter turn up to look at the car, for her to use, she at that time had an old clio, and to quote the dad..."was fed up to the back teeth with fixing it every weekend...." but even though the volvo had abs,aircon, no rust etc etc all of which her clio didn't have she hated the idea of having a volvo...and told her dad to keep fixing the clio....hahaha.....children......

(i've got 2x boys 7 and 4...)

A few people I know have had Renaults and not been happy, always seem to be being repaired - electric windows seemed a problem and on the Scenic the induction coils. Had a Modus as a courtesy car once and it was cheap and nasty.

No to a Mazda because there was a scene in Men Behaving Badly which has always cracked me up and the "oi, you Mazda" followed by a gesture will always stick with me! Could never drive one without hearing that every time I got in.