Hi

I've been in your position, although probably somewhat older and I do like a quick car. I've driven quite a range of cars recently to come to a decision, including the XJ and XF, Merc CLS, BMW 328, Lexus 460 etc.

Earlier this year I bought a year old XJ Portfolio, but for various reasons, did not get on with the car and sold it back to the supplying dealer.

I am now in an Infiniti G37 and love it. Check out the Infiniti website for the G and their other models. The cars are well built and come pretty loaded as standard. Their dealerships are very good too.

Well it's either BMW 5 series, Jaguar XF, Mercedes E class, Audi A8 or Lexus GS i'd say.

Best thing to do is just test drive each and see which car, dealer & price you prefer, all good cars.

If you want even better advice, get yourself a Fiesta and knock £30k off the mortgage! (tic)

A warm welcome to the forum.

Reading your post, and seeing that you are looking for luxury rather than speed, I immediately thought 'Lexus' . Lexus often win consumer surveys for reliability and excellence of dealers, although Jaguar do well too and an XF is a good suggestion too.

As advised above try them out, and get a good long test drive: when you're spending £30k it's a decision you need to get right.

Why not ask your butler? Or your cleaner? With so little money, the proletariat these days have a fine idea of what they aspire to.