Oooooh - help spec a 'new' car :-)

[IainB]

A friend at work is after some advice for a replacement car, she used to have a Puma and is currently driving an MGF (horrible thing!!)

Im quite frankly useless on the 'newer' side of the used car market, so could anyone help with a few suggestions on the following:-

Doors - 4 door if poss otherwise 2 is fine

Budget - £5k to £8K

Insurance Group - upto and around a grp 13

Type – sporty but no soft tops!! Performance prefered over looks

Fuel - Petrol or Diesel

Colour – Black, silver, blue (metallic) - well she is a girl

So - over to you OCUK motors guru's

 

[IainB]

New sport car for 5-8k ...

There's not going to be a huge choice?

New - as in second hand (as per the 2nd para )

 

[IainB]

Cheers lads
Im more err shall we say 'old skool' so anything within the last 10 or so years has gone happily sailing past the window!
A bit of further info - she likes to drive hard, bit of a petrol head (offered to crew for me, before the dragster went up for sale) has done a couple of track days, but doesnt want huge servicing costs - as this is a bit of a cost cutting exercise.
Thanks for the suggestions so far