Cant go wrong with a ZR! Cheap to buy, run and maintain and super fun to drive. As long as you can put up with everyone calling it a Rover and telling you that its crap 
Cheap maintenance is not something I associate with a ZR, their good cars and fairly reliable yes, but parts are expensive, a bloke I lived with had his clutch cable snap a week after mine, I paid £18 for a clutch cable for a corsa b, he paid literally 10 times that £179.99
I nearly fell through the floor when I saw the receipt!
He had taken it to a garage who tried to rip him off, they looked at it and said he needed a whole new clutch and quoted over a grand, I looked at it and said "just get the cable and I'll fit it, it'll only cost about £20" how wrong was I!
Everything that went wrong on my corsa went wrong on the ZR and vice versa within a week of the other, punctures, brakes, clutch cable, battery it was quite funny because in the end when something went wrong for one of us we ordered the part for the other car at the same time.
