Bought as a 'practical' car to get me to and from Brookes for a year, and to tide me over until I get a job/am old enough for cheap insurance. Immensely practical; room for very large stuff in the back when the seats are folded down. Fun handling, if a little tending towards understeer when being chucked through the roundabouts of Milton Keynes. Engine pulls pretty well from low revs, although I think I'll replace the timing belt before verifying a claim seen on the net that the K-series engine is "rev-happy". Very economical, too. Reasonably easy to maintain, for a modern car. This was the market leader in the supermini class, and had the greatest market share. However, probably due to Rover's troubles around this time, the updates to the Metro/Rover 100 were mainly cosmetic after the initial revamp to the original metro. This meant that the 100 lagged further and further behind more modern offerings from other companies in terms of crash safety. Although the ease of use of the controls and the handling remains among the best.