Hi George,

I would suggest simply renewing your cee’d with a new one – they’re a bracingly good car, reliable, good to drive and with that long warranty. Of course, you already know all that if you’ve owned one and the wrinkle here is that the automatic version of the cee’d is actually quite expensive – a nudge over €27k. Sadly, that’s the case for pretty much any similarly sized car whether it’s the predictable duo of the Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf (€27k for the Focus TDCi diesel auto, €25k for the 1.2 TSI petrol DSG automatic Golf) or even the cee’d’s cousin, the Hyundai i30, which you’ll need to find €26k to get with an automatic.