Wouldn't bother with the 500. Not worth the premium. Different colour seats and stripes, woopy doo!

Mine was £600 to insure at 28. My mondeo is £1200

There are some dogs about as they are now in the price range of idiots, just like what happened to scoobys.
Get one with plenty of recites and history and you'll be fine.

I'd go mid market price. Many garages are pricing them rather high for some reason.

Handling wise they are great. White line do good kits for them.

The thing I likes was with the amount of low torque you don't need to boot it forever taking etc. the power band is spot I think.

Personally I'd go for the st 3 (which I had) unless you need 5 seats as the st3 is 4 seater and go for one with all the extras. The touch screen stereos are pretty good but the satnav on them are dog shit. But looks a better dash layout with them IMO.

The seats are fantastic as well.

I was getting from 19mpg to 24 around town. Best I got was 36 on a long run.

I made a huge mistake trading mine in and regrettd
It ever since.