Men of wisdom, recommend me a vehicle

[MattCharlton91]

Evening all! I'd like a few ideas of what car to get next, purchase is pretty imminent!

Criteria as follows:
Decent to insure (22, 2years ncb, 6points... To give you an idea I currently pay around £830 a year tpft on a 2001 1.2 Clio.)
Decent to fuel. Around 40mpg would be nice.
The sort of thing a 22 year old single gent would be happily seen in.
£8k absolute maximum.
Less than 6 years old is a major positive.
Less than 60k on the clock.

So far I have taken a fancy to:

Volvo c30's ( 8k gets a decent example and is about 950 a year to insure fully comp, but this is for a 1.6d, are they painfully slow?)
Renault laguna coupes ( really like the look of these, but are about 1300 to insure, which is more than I'd like.)

I know it's not very exciting, but 6points governs me a bit, I cover about 12000miles a year. Believe me, I'd genuinely love an e39 530 sport,/330ci etc but that's not feasible right now, oh, and hot hatches and mx5's arn't my thing!

Thanks in advance team!

[jc84]

You may not get many replies as the points and your age limit you to (dare I say it) boring cars. And this is Pistonheads! Speed matters etc etc. Any of the above will be fine. Dull but fine. You do the crime...

[Troubleatmill]

With 6 points I would suggest something positively lethargic.

You will hate it; but in 4 years time with a clean licence you might thank me.