Sounds unlikely. Unless you have vastly different ideas of ‘interesting’ and ‘reliable’ to the general population.
For that price boring and reliable is maybe just about achievable.
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Nonsense. Over the last 20 years i’ve never spent more than 2.5k on a daily, and have had a fair few fun/interesting cars (numerous mx5s, mr2, 200sx, Clio Cup etc) that have been, on the whole, pretty damn reliable and cheap to run. Granted, the same cars are more expensive now as they’re older and there are less around, but their shoes will have been filled by something else.
Pertinently to this thread though, the most unreliable by far was the Clio(172 Cup) – bought the Cup chiefly as there were fewer things to go wrong… but despite buying one with a great history, something minor packed up with alarming regularity. Usually electrical. Final straw was then the clutch plates seperated from the clutch centre on the way to get the clutch looked at.
Loads of good warm hatches in that price range that will be great, just decide what you want and don’t buy the first you see.
Swift Sport, Panda 100, some sort of warm Fiesta, Legacy GT, some sort of Mini, Focus ST etc etc