Hi
Newish aircraft can be hired for reasonable money, but peeps expect to fly quality aircraft for peanuts and that is unfortunately not possible.
You can hire a new (less than one year old just 100 hrs on the clock) DR400 at Turweston with more avionics than you can shake a stick at; £135 per hour on the Hobbs.
Pilot Flight Training do a nearly new C172S for £115 per hour (again Hobbs)
At Connington you can fly a very nicely equipped Seneca 2 for less than £200 per hour.
OK it is all a bit more expensive than the cheapest of cheap but not extortionate.
As always in life: You pays your money and make your choice.
FD