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I have the 1996 1.0i Debut (base model) Citroen AX, if you want my review of it, I have a write up in the My Garage section, and a thread somewhere in the Introduction section of the forum with pics.

Also when you say best used car, is that for FE or in general, because a crappy Citroen 2CV gets high mileage, though is polluting and unstable.
You say you get 65MPG from a corsa, that's good going, you really aren't going to get much better for £1000, i'm not even sure you'd get any better without buying a new fiesta econetic (65mpg) or vw lupo diesel (75mpg).

If you do go for an AX and are serious about modding contact MonsterAX on here, he's done quite a lot of mods to his AX, but hasn't documented most of them on here. It's not a bad car if you pick the right model, i'd go for one with 5 gears and power steering, i know those 2 things probably lower FE a bit, but after years without those 2 things i'd easily take the FE hit for the comfort. My user manual says they even made a 4x4 AX though i've never found a single page or pic of them so far on the web.