Originally Posted by Alps Pacino
Most the cars you have listed are high maintanance and you will only get a poor example of a saph cossie for 3.5k imo,. So if you are borrowing money to buy the car i presume you wont have any savings to fix it WHEN it goes wrong so my advise would be to compromise on power in favour of reliability.

If we're talking about something going and costing like £300 or so to put right, then that's not too big a worry, provided I'm not expecting to have something go every month.
As for a £3.5k Saff, if it needs a bit of tidying etc then that's fine. I'm happy to have a go at it.