Advice: Used cars - best buys

The gentleman on the advert loves zapping between the bends in his Laguna V6, to the dulcet tones of Frank Sinatra. Why is his music on so high and why is he resorting to using the pointless tiptronic shift on the old-tech four-speed auto? To take his mind off the colossal depreciation he's inflicted on himself and his family. Perhaps Paignton for them this year, rather than Portugal.

After three years, his range-topping family hatch will be worth just 22% of the £23,480 he paid for it; that's over £6,000 lost per year. Mind you, look at him; he's clearly rich enough to afford it  so mercilessly take advantage and enjoy a silky-smooth engine that suits the laid-back Laguna very well indeed.

It's effortlessly quick and, in Initiale trim, comes with a scary amount of standard kit, plus detailing that shows the inspiration of design god Patrick le Quément. Come Fly  at easyJet prices rather than Emirates. How easyJet? Early 2001/Y models now dip below £3,000...

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