Recommend me a good medium sized car for high mileage?

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Hi all. About to start new job and will be doing approx 25,000 miles per year. I therefore need something that's going to be very fuel efficient and reliable.

The only other criteria:

I'd need a decent size boot - at least 350 litres as I have a large dog - and I'm not massively keen on estates.

Can you recommend me a car please?

The dog requirement makes estates perfect in my mind. The ford focus estate is large enough for a large labrador or you move up to the mondeo estate which is still a small estate. If your budget stretches to it the BMW 3 series estate is excellent.

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Oops sorry slow internet and didn't show me you'd replied @IWouldPreferNotTo

Gah. I reeeeeally hate estates. Maybe I need to be a bit more open minded about it.

Skoda Fabia, we do high mileage and it's not failed us we had the hatch back then moved to the estate after having our little boy.

For reliability look at Kias. There’s a reason they have a 7-year warranty!

(There’s also a mileage limit of 100,000, so at 25,000 miles you’ll only get 4 years, but my reasoning still stands IMO . DH used to do 30,000 & we’ve had 2 Ceed diesel estates; he’s retired now, 2nd is on 210,000 miles & still doing fine).

Thanks - how do you all find them for fuel efficiency?

Mitsubishi asx. Tops the used reliability cars (other than an Audi and Toyota Yaris)
Ive had mine since 2010 and have done 90,000 miles in it; never had any repairs done and my mechanic says everything still looks absolutely fine (ask him every mot). Only cost to me has been the occasional tyre or brake pads (2 in 9 years). Didn’t even get stuck in the beast from east snow and it’s not a 4wd but the large wheels help (Mine is the 1.6 petrol) I cover a lot of mileage ,but mostly motorway driving and put around £30 every 10 days

DH's Ceed returns 55-60mpg on motorway trips (which is what I would hope your 25,000 miles will be!)

On a long journey recently, where we'd just filled up & were driving first in heavy rain & then in a 15-20 mile constant 50mph stretch, I got it up to 63.5 but that was a freak occurrence.

Now he's doing mostly shortish local journeys he's averaging 50 at best. It's a 1.6 diesel. Diesels do generally get the best mpg (& have the longest-lasting engines) but of course they've become unpopular now with city emissions controls etc, & the price of diesel has gone up again, so maybe no use for you...

Cruise control is very good for economy, except in town traffic.