Zendieta
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You can't really go wrong with 1-2 year old motor from the VAG family. The Ateca and Karoq are good cars too (a lot of these VAG cars are built on the same platform and share identical engines/gearboxes - as you probably already know). I recently picked up a Seat Leon ST with the 2.0 TSI (20 months old) and it was rammed full of extras (digital cockpit etc), it has some manufacturer warranty left and we managed to agree on a very fair deal. With the new Golf/Octavia/Leon arriving in their bucket loads this year it could be a good time to pick up the last model too if you decide to go for a hatchback/estate - considering the platform hasn't really changed much (if at all?). I keep my cars for a fair few years so it works out fair value with this approach - IMO. I would stick with the petrol route over diesel, I can see hybrids and EV's coming more and more to the fore at the expense of diesels (more so than petrol), but again that's just my opinion.