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Car won't be used for commuting, but otherwise has two fairly opposite use cases. One is shorter trips (10-15 minutes) to the gym, occaisional shop, about town sort of stuff, maybe 6-7 times a week. The other is longer trips at the weekends for mountain biking (2-3hrs each way, give or take, and bike fitting inside the car would be a major plus). Figure I'll be somewhere in the region of 10k miles a year. The car needs to be an auto, and with all that factored in an Octavia estate feels like it fits the bill perfectly, albeit some slight concerns about the size for a first car. I'd initially set a budget of ~£5000 (I'm in my mid 30s, so I'm not after a complete banger). I think this has proven to be tricky, so that's been incrementally increasing to broaden the pool (We're currently around £7k). Thing is I'm lacking the expertise of you kind folk to help sort the wheat from the chaff, what is important on these cars and what is just superficial, what sort of mileage I should be walking away from, etc (I'm doing constant reading, but I think at this point a direct post would be helpful). Given the intended journeys I've been proceeding under the assumption that the 1.4 TSI will be the shout, but perhaps with the longer journeys to break them up the 2.0 TDI would also be fine? There is the occaisional higher mileage 1.5 TSI that creeps in around this price also, but I don't know if ~120/130k is too high to be starting my journey with that car? It would be lovely to get a facelift mk3 to get some of the comforts that came with them, such as Android Auto/Apple carplay. Parking sensors would also be great. TL:DR - what should my expectations be for ~£7000? What can look scary with these cars in this price range that I shouldn't really worry about, and what should I be worried about?