Get a Volvo. A rear wheel drive with the redblock engine will do 200,000 miles without much trouble. The volvo owners clubs tend to have "high mileage" clubs and you don't qualify until your car has done half a million miles. The high pressure turbos are brisk. A pointy-head can make them REALLY quick. Lots of room for the labradors in the back of the estates too.

If you get a later model automatic, don't let bush mechanics work on them. You have to twiddle with a thing on the side of the gearbox underneath before revving the engine in Park or Neutral unless you want to kill the autobox.

The earlier ones with the Borg-Warner box do not drive as well but do not have this problem.