An auto trader search for new cars with a budget of £30-35k , rwd & manual the only option is the MX5, most of which are closer to £35k. If you remove rwd & manual your money opens up options which include such exciting models as a Dacia Bigster and Citroen C5 aircross.
As you say the suggestion £30k is expensive for a vehicle in 2025 or even 2023 when most of us placed our order is nonsensical. Yes “you could have M or M lite this, or Audi S this or that” but that comes from an assumption that you’re happy to buy a potentially scabby ~5 year old performance car which may have had its head kicked in since it rolled off the forecourt. There’s also the assumption you place 0-60 and top speed and the presence of a wireless vape charging slot at the top of your buying priorities.
To be fair it’s been going on since a newly registered Renaultsport hothatch would be compared to a miley rusty Impreza so around the time these boys would have had one of these as a daily.
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