Which car can you recommend???

Hello, I’m new here in the forum and wanted to create a post right away… So: I’ve been driving a Golf 3 1.4 since 1st year. Since the car is slowly but surely gammelting away under my butt and since I just want something faster, it would be time to buy a new one. Only I don’t know which one. I’ve already driven several cars, small cars but also bigger ones and still am not conclusive to me. The biggest problem it is the price-performance ratio. te yes already quite like a nice fast car drive, but the maintenance costs should not blow up the frame ( have about 800 euro available in the month). And in the purchase should not cost more than 4000 max.. I have in the past quite often the car of my buddy gafahren and he has already told me quite to. It is an Alfa Romeo 156 sportswagon with the 2.0 150 ps machine. The performance of the car I liked already and also the look, but I wanted to know if you might know another car or have the same performance, but is cheaper/better in the quality etc.. Because otherwise I would really get the Alfa. I just like this exciting new one, because I’ve driven the car a lot and that wouldn’t be anything new if you understand me. OK thank you in advance Lg Yannick