Used small cars for sale under £5,000

There are 17,898 used small cars under £5,000 for sale from UK dealers on AskCar, as of 1 November 2026. Typical asking price £3,700 (the median: half cost less, half cost more). The cheapest is £500.

The middle half of the 17,898 cars are priced between £2,600 and £4,500.

Small cars here are city cars and superminis, not crossovers, from AskCar's list of small models.

As of 1 November 2026, AskCar lists 578,994 cars and vans from 12,654 UK dealerships, read daily from dealer websites: over 99% of UK dealer used car adverts. No dealer pays to be listed.

2,712 of the 17,898 cars had their price reduced in the last 14 days to 1 November 2026.

Cars for sale now, page 62 of 179

Best value first: the cars priced furthest below their AskCar estimate come first, and those without one come after. The AskCar estimate is our expected asking price for that one car, from its model, age, mileage and specification, using the priced adverts of its make and model on AskCar as of 1 November 2026.

Each car: year, make, model, engine and trim, power, gearbox, fuel, body, doors, colour; mileage; price and its changes; how the price compares with the AskCar estimate; emissions standard and ULEZ compliance where it holds; MOT; dealer and town; AskCar page.

Cheaper cars like each one, with its price history, are on its AskCar page.

·

Small cars near you

Popular models under £5,000

Other budgets

Everything