get yourself a lovely little pug 106 (don't laugh at the back). I have a 106 that is used for walking the dogs and taking rubbish to the tip as those are 2 jobs the 8 isn't getting. Cheap as chips to buy, never broken down (despite 125k miles and 16 years of labour) used nearly enough daily, insurance is less than 15 sheets a month despite being a second car, the parts are laughably cheap (brake discs are 9 quid, oil filters 3 quid, full exhaust was 40....) for a little car the insides are oddly big with a decent boot for a little 'un and nice french squishy seats, its nimble enough, suprisingly nippy (i have got the 1.4...) sips petrol (and cost half as much to fill as the 8 from empty
) and after getting out of an 8 a peice of cake to park and even over winter when the poor little blighter was quite literally buried in the snow all i did was dig to a door, get in and after a week in sub zero it started 1st pull. Ok so its a bit rattly (well, ok, a lot), the interior is made for the same plastics as the insides of a chocolate box, its on skinny tyres so you couldn't throw it about like a rally car (but why would i want to with the dogs sat in it?!?!) and the equipment list reads as.......sunroof, radio, erm, rear wash wipe, and erm lights. I ain't saying that a 106 is the greatest thing since sliced bread, oh no no no, but for what mine is used for and for a car that cost just a tenth of my 8 when new i'm never annoyed that i've got to use it! Personally though, i think i'd stick with the S8 and swallow the insurance... but you asked for a cheap car, and thats my cheap car that is used as a gofor and dogsbody Anyone else got any suggestions of cheap cars?! Just incase the insurance come over all unreasonable.......