The used car market is sooooo good at the moment - remember you hold *all* the cards and can either pop to another dealer of the same make or go to another brand.

The Focus is pretty decent, though apparently they are rusting in all the "usual" Ford places. The build quality seems reasonable, but I was most unimpressed to see they have *plastic* door handles.

Peugeot is ok, but I was commenting to my boss that the interior of the 406 (that we hired, brand new) is still crappily typical of French cars - I randomly pushed hard on the dash and it gave a huge creak and then pushed one side of the radio surround and the other side popped out!!!

I think a lot of people here are fans of Japanese vehicles - if you don't want anu more engine problems I suspect that is where you should go...

Gareth