Well known renter has a few of the fluences on the road, he/she suggests that they’re grand to get you out of a hole for a year, he/she is slowly going the hybrid route with fresh wanked out priusi from Japan.
Erm for what you are doing I’d highly suggest a Prius+.
If you we’re to stay diesel I’d buy a wat, very low initial costs and at the lowest end of the age scale you can get 9 years (131/132) out of a wanked out panel van - excuse the pun!