Used car advice

[Bobby2018]

I am looking for a reliable, decent to drive and ideally with an mpg of around 40 or more 2016-2017 petrol automatic to have for the next 3-5 years. My budget is about £15000.

I am not interested in the way it looks very much, but I do care about reliability, decent comfort inside and to be nice enough to drive especially around town where I do most of my driving.

This is what I managed to understand so far... please excuse any mistakes, I am new to cars.

Toyota Auris 1.8 Hybrid - reliable, good mpg but a lot of people have complained about it being uncomfortable or boring to drive..not sure what boring means in this context.. and also noisy at motorway speeds.
Ford Focus 1.5 - good to drive but poor mpg, just about 30 so probably I'll have to skip it.
Seat Leon 1.4 - good to drive, 40ish mpg, not sure how reliable is it?

I have shortlisted 3 cars. Could you offer your advice as to whether which one you think is better please?

Seat Leon 1.4
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Toyota Auris Hybrid 1.8
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

and,

Ford Focus
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Thank you

[ZX10R NIN]

This one is easy:

Kia C'eed with 4-6 years manufacturers warranty left.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

[jam_up]

I’d go for the Leon from the ones you’ve mentioned. Will be most entertaining to drive in FR spec, all be it the lowered suspension isn’t to everyone’s liking. Sportier looks (subjective I guess!) and good standard kit too on tech models

The 1.4 had been used throughout the VAG range for a 3-4 years so it should be fine - it was recently updated to the 1.5, same power but better emissions.

[Bobby2018]

Thank you all for your kind advice!

[Terzo123]

The wife and I picked up a Seat Leon Fr 1. 4 150bhp late last year. We had previously ran a leased Audi A3 for three years with the same engine.

Absolutely no issues with either. It will need topped up with oil every now and again but nothing major. Decent performance and feels fairly sprightly for what it is with loads of kit as standard.

City driving gets us about 37 mpg, motorway trips over 50 mpg.

Our leon is a manual 15 plate with only 15k miles. Paid just over 11k for it. There should be some negotiation in the price of the one you linked to.