I was also running up the miles on my lex, so I bought a fiesta ghia for £600 and It's been ace, put 18k miles on it with no probs at all.
But yesterday I went out and got myself a 1.7td GLS vectra (96) and now have 2 run abouts
Yip I like the new changes, I also like the new feature that lets you know when a member is writing a reply to the post your reading - when the line under there name at the bottom breaks up.