Youre throwing over £7k at a car and youre going for a Corolla? :shock:
Checkthe Corolla reliabilty record. You can literally weld the hood shut on them with an oil port and itll not complain for a decade. Smart move, if a little pedestrian. My Daihatsu, which I love to make fun of, is actually a Toyota, under a diffent name, and its 14 years old and has needed only an alternator, one belt, and a single CV boot in all that time.