As has been said already, dont spend £5k on a new car, go second hand.
However, out of the two posted originally, I would say the Panda everytime.
Personally I hate the things, they are simply too small for my frame over long periods and I dont like their slab looks. However, both my mother and grandmother have one, mothers is a metallic dark blue Multijet diesel Dynamic and grandparents is a red 1.2 active and tbh, for such a small car they are pretty good. They have both owned them for nearly 3 years now (active was from new, dynamic was a year old) and for what its worth neither of them have gone wrong in any respect.
Nothing has fallen off, they dont rattle inside and while they are plasticky, they do genuinely fit 4 reasonably sized adults in them. The suspension is soft and quite squidgy, not great if you like to race it around everywhere, but then why would you be buying a non 100BHP Panda? What it does mean is that even on the motorway, the 1.3 diesel at least, is actually quite acceptable. My mum commutes 40 miles a day in the thing!
If you want a small car, the Panda is perfectly acceptable and well packaged, would certainly be my choice over the Hyundai/Kia.
But dont, buy second hand
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