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Work horse for £2k or less

Basically I'm working a lot more hours and doing around 500 miles a week, so looking to buy a work horse as I don't really want to be putting that sort of mileage onto my 5 month old Insignia which is approaching 8k as it is.

Two cars I've been looking a lot at are the Focus 1.8 tdci and Astra 1.7dti.. both seem fairly economical, cheap to maintain/insure etc. The problem is I've had a Mondeo with the 1.8 tdci before and had absolute hell with it, so was just wondering if there's any other cars to consider? or models/engines etc.

Cheers


edit - mostly motorway driving btw!
This thread has me so pumped, I headbutted my dog and we both screamed.

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