What would you buy?

[Scott]

The megane r26 is one of the cars on my lost for that price range, along with the ds3, mazda 3 mps, and the e46 m3.

There are some really nice ones about, but sadly they're only in 5 door guise, and not all of them have the letterbox bonnet (yes, I'm a chav, but it looks much better with it!) and the ones that do seem to be considerably over the £10k mark, or have been written off at some point.