save me from my awful city commute

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TommoAE86 said:

I had one for my commute, but it is severely lacking in the "fun" department. If you're going to get one just make sure you check it over (like really check it), when they work they are great, but when they don't it is £££ no matter where you go. Also there isn't that much space, me & SWMBO filled it up with a week's trip to Cornwall just the two of us! Epically comfortable on the motorway though.

Normally I'd say a ZT, but they won't ever meet your reliability stakes no matter how much I love them, so I'm going to echo the Subaru suggestions, they would be alot of fun. Mondeo ST perhaps, they are quite fun apparently?

I'm sure an S-type isn't a particularly involving or fun drive, but that was kind of my point - in the scenario described by the OP nothing is going to be 'fun', and a traditionally fun car might actually be downright miserable. Given that, maximum cossetting, minimum stress and cost (hopefully) would be pretty much the primary goal.

Did you have a diesel S type? I was under the impression the facelifts were significantly better quality-wise than the earlier ones, but of course it's still a relatively old jag running a (relatively) modern V diesel, with all the potential pitfalls of both of those things. There were cheaper high mile examples in the classifieds but I picked a few relatively low milers hopefully to keep the right side of reliable