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Looking for a second car for up to €15,000...

Hi there,

I'm looking for a recommendation for a second car for short journeys with two children, i.e. ferrying them to weekend activities. We're in two high-back child seats at the moment and the eldest could go in a booster seat to save space if needed.

Occasionally we might also use the second car to transport fitness gear for classes I host; this can fill a good bit of our 520-litre boot so might require folding the rear seats of a smaller car.

If combining these needs is too much of a trade-off though, we could continue to use the main car only for this purpose and have the second car only for the kids activities, basically.

A third wrinkle would be that it'd like to be able to transport one bicycle on the second car, with a roof- or boot-mounted rack.

Our main car is electric, and we have a home charger. We're so used to it I imagine it would be hard to go back to a manual transmission, but I'm open to petrol, hybrid or electric for the second car.

Budget around €10-15k. Would probably prefer something newer rather than an older model in that price range.