Soblet me get this straight, you want to spend £17k and upwards on a car to use at the weekend to drive peeps about in order to earn a few quid?
Most places will hire you a car to do the job and you simply pay the hire charges and fuel, my cousin used to own and run his own cab office back when he was alive and I recently spoke to on of his old drivers who said that the bigger cars were costing about £4/500 a week to rent out while his prius was costing about £270 a week and overall it was much cheaper to run and park up etc.
Don't forget you need to have a minicab license as well along with the required checks to go with them