Hi Fiona,

This is very tricky to achieve – the budget, size of the vehicle and preferred age is impossible to reconcile. Your mum will have to make a compromise somewhere: something like a Fiat 500C, MINI Convertible or a good used Mazda MX-5 would all be small open-tops, but none of them are available for just €15,000 and less than three years old – you could look at older versions of each, though. There are very few small convertibles, truth be told, but other (leftfield) alternatives include the Daihatsu Copen, Nissan Figaro or a Nissan Micra C+C, but all of these are much older cars.