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Newsweek

COVER New Audi A3 driven

Early miles in S3 prototype show premium hatch’s promise

COVER Gazoo lining up fresh hot Toyotas

Motorists ‘ready to pay clean-air tolls’

Plug-in power for facelifted Mégane

COVER Aston reshapes future product plan

C-HR and Corolla teed up for performance versions Exclusive poll shows resistance to public transport

Plug-in hybrid tech gives French hatch 31-mile EV range

Fresh cash for ﬁrm, but delays for Lagonda and Vanquish

Features

COVER Land Rover Defender’s new home We visit Slovakian plant that’ll make next-gen icon

New cars

8 Early verdict on next-generation A3

Fiat 500 Mild Hybrid

COVER Hyundai i10

BMW M850i Gran Coupé

Skoda Superb iV Estate

Electrified power tries to extend city car’s appeal Grown-up baby model driven on British roads for first time Sports car or luxury tourer – or both? It’s time to find out

Hybrid Vauxhall rated

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20 Inside the factory

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Does hybrid power dent Czech wagon’s appeal?

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COVER How to buy a new car

34 pages of advice on the best cars and how to buy them

Road tests

Coupé-SUVs: BMW X6 vs Audi Q8

Which styled-focused luxo-model makes most sense? Jacked-up Audi meets Ford’s great-driving pseudo-SUV

Hello to our Nissan Juke, and living with the BMW 1 Series

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Online thisweek Early verdict on new Toyota Yaris

76 Beefed-up Audi A1 Citycarver meets Fiesta Active www.autoexpress.co.uk

COVER New A1 Citycarver vs Fiesta Active 76 Our cars

68 BMW’s Marmite X6 squares up to Audi Q8

COVER Vauxhall Grandland X Hybrid4 Does ﬁrm’s ﬁrst plug-in hybrid model hit the mark?

Toyota’s hot-hatch plan

TOYOTA is on a roll at the moment, as its well-proven hybrid tech becomes more relevant to buyers every day. The next phase of this process will be the fourth generation of the company’s Yaris supermini – and this week we’ll be behind the wheel of prototypes of the hybrid Fiesta rival to gauge its potential. Read our initial verdict at autoexpress.co.uk from Monday 10 February.

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WE’VE expected it for a while, but the news of JLR CEO Sir Ralf Speth’s retirement is still a seismic event in the UK car industry. He sits at the top of a company that employs around 40,000 people globally, of which close to 35,000 are in the UK. Without his leadership, Land Rover and Jaguar wouldn’t be what they are today: the envy of other car makers around the world. It’s been a rollercoaster ride for Speth (above), though. Incredible highs, with the launch of some brilliant new cars (including four Auto Express Car of the Year Awards during his tenure) and, more recently, some seriously difficult times. He leaves the company in a much better place than when he became CEO in 2010, but there’s still much to do, not least in improving reliability and service. But herein starts a managerial merry-go-round with wide-ranging implications. There’ll be plenty of internal candidates for the job, including rising Auto Express Brit List star and current JLR engineering director Nick Rogers (Speth himself has an engineering background). Former Land Rover MD and now Lotus CEO Phil Popham must be on the list – although that’d be a tough place to leave. Auto Express Hall of Fame inductee Mike Manley has already been mentioned in reports. He’s currently CEO of FCA, but won’t be running the combined FCA/PSA company. Mike’s success at FCA and Jeep won’t have gone unnoticed; he could be just what JLR needs. Also this week, Aston Martin has a new chairman, as you can read on Page 18. And former SEAT CEO Luca de Meo has finally been confirmed as the new boss of Renault. That’s hugely significant; the French brand is showing great signs for the future, and with someone as good as de Meo at the helm, it’s even more exciting. That’s how important getting the right CEO is, as PSA proved when it appointed Carlos Tavares in 2014. Its brands haven’t looked back since. So good luck to Tata in the search for Speth’s successor, a crucial role for JLR and the UK.

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James Brodie

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THE Audi A3 is possibly preparing for the fight of its life, as it enters its fourth generation and 24th year. That’s because even regular compact family hatchbacks have been on a drive to become ever more premium in recent years. So the A3 has to work harder than ever to carve out a niche beyond just being a more upmarket alternative to the mechanically similar Volkswagen Golf. The A3 will make its full debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March, but before all is revealed, Auto Express has been granted a sneak preview of this big 2020 arrival. The Mk4 A3 is still based on the same MQB underpinnings as the Golf, but as ever, the chassis has been finalised at Audi HQ in Ingolstadt. This time around, just the five-door A3 Sportback will be offered: of the 313,000 A3s built in 2017, only 8,000 were threedoor versions, making it the least popular derivative with buyers. The A3 Cabriolet is being ditched, too (see Page 11), while the A3 saloon is due at a later date. For our prototype drive, we’re behind the wheel of the new S3 Sportback, which rivals the BMW M135i and the MercedesAMG A 35 as the performance model at launch. Our car wears only a thin exterior camouflage, and it’s easy to see that the design team have opted for a mild evolution of the A3’s design, save for some newer touches that have already been seen on cars such as the A1 Sportback and Q3. The nose features three slots just where the bonnet meets the grille, while the headlights and tail-lights are more aggressive than before. By and large, it looks remarkably similar to its predecessor. We aren’t allowed to reveal the cabin just yet, but it’s a far more technologically advanced environment than was found in the outgoing car. The rear bench feels very comfortable and well padded, too, while there are various clever design tricks that make it feel more spacious inside. Get going in the new S3, and one of the first things you’ll notice – especially if you flick the car into Dynamic mode on the updated Drive Select system – is the engine note. The S3 features a new sound actuator, sitting behind the dashboard, which is tasked with reverberating engine noise around the cabin. While the S3 sticks with the 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol engine from

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Essentials

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Avarvarii

● We join engineers developing next-generation Audi A3 ● Hot S3 will be offered at launch with 306bhp and new tech

Audi S3 2.0TFSI S tronic Price: Engine: Power/torque: Transmission: 0-62mph: Top speed: Economy: CO2:

£38,000 (est) 2.0-litre 4cyl turbo petrol 306bhp/400Nm Seven-speed DSG auto, four-wheel drive 4.5 seconds (est) 155mph 32mpg (est) 160g/km (est)

ONSALE May

UNMASKED Our exclusive image shows how new A3 looks without its disguise

TECH Standard-fit adaptive dampers have

been developed to help get power to the road, while a new electromechanical power steering set-up has also been added

DRIVEN N

We get an early taste of fourth-generation

Audi A3 preview

TOPSTORY

ew Audi S3 hits the road

n A3 hatchback as we get behind the wheel of the performance ﬂagship the old car, it sounds different due to this new trick. Systems like these have received criticism in the past, but the S3’s set-up doesn’t bolster the fourcylinder note. In fact, it changes it entirely, with the car now doing an uncanny impression of the bassy five-cylinder 2.5-litre engine we’ve become accustomed to in the RS 3. Power and performance are right in the same ballpark as the previous S3, so this is a potent hot hatch with a balance of power that feels right at home on the road. The twin-clutch S tronic transmission still bears some of its trademark kickdown lag, so the S3 really doesn’t change that much from a powertrain perspective. Instead, the really fresh engine tech is likely to be reserved for the regular A3 line-up. This will see a selection of petrol and diesel engines similar to those that have already been announced in the Golf. As such, expect 48-volt mild-hybrid systems to be applied across three and four-cylinder

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Flagship S3 offers great pace in a straight line and quattro 4WD grip

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TOPSTORY Audi A3 preview Testing the S3 from an engineer’s perspective

“IN my opinion, there are some very important new developments for the chassis of the new S3. All the systems work together, and the new adaptive damping gives the driver the opportunity to spread the properties of the car in a wider range than before.” So says Gunnar Schultz (above left), a member of a large team of development engineers. He adds that the regular A3 is destined to take on some of the sporty characteristics of the S3, but these mainstream, everyday versions of the new model will not do this at the expense of comfort requirements. “We differentiate the Audi cars from other MQB models by having our own chassis application, steering application and developing our own tyres so the whole chassis is different,” he says. Schultz focuses on tyres, and has been working with industry suppliers to develop rubber tailored for the S3. “It means we can meet the particular needs of the model,” he says. “To make it drive individually, to create a special character with the car.”

“The A3 will take on some of the sporty characteristics of the S3”

units, while the A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid will also make a comeback. With the S3, Audi has focused on the set-up of the chassis and steering. Adaptive damping returns, while the latest version of the progressive electromechanical power steering arrives. The quattro all-wheel-drive system can vary torque completely between front and rear axles, while the traction control now gently brakes the front and rear wheels on the inside of corners to help the car hold its line. The S3 is good to drive in the sense of this being a car that’s incredibly easy to hustle along challenging roads, because it has immense grip and incredibly direct steering. However, while it’s pleasingly

HANDLING

Traction control system can brake the inside wheels to boost cornering ability

accurate, it feels like it’s still a little low on feedback compared with a BMW 1 Series’. The change in character between the Drive Select modes is obvious, however. There’s a clear difference between the compliance of Comfort mode and the firmness of Dynamic, while the Individual setting allows the driver to tailor the engine, steering, dampers and sound actuator accordingly. By and large, though, the A3 looks set to remain positioned towards the firmer side of the family hatchback spectrum, irrespective of which mode you opt for. Throw this together and you get a car that feels very similar to what has gone before, so fans will have very little to complain about.

Verdict THIS first taste of the new A3 in sporty S3 form reveals that Audi’s engineers have followed one key mantra: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. It feels similar to drive to its predecessor, save for some added refinement and the new sound actuator. As such, we anticipate those looking to upgrade from the current A3 to the new one won’t find much has changed. Perhaps the cabin will be the real game-changer when we get to see it at the Geneva show.

A3 MK4

New model will be revealed at Geneva Motor Show, with fivedoor hatch and four-door saloon bodystyles

AUDI A3 GENERATIONS MK1: 1996-2003

Audi’s first Golf rival was launched as a three-door specifically to make it seem more glamorous than its sister car. A five-door version and the rapid S3 arrived in 1999.

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MK2: 2003-2013

Second A3 brought in an expanded range. Two-door A3 Cabriolet slotted in alongside the three- and five-door versions, while the hot five-cylinder RS3 model appeared, too.

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Audi A3 preview

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STYLE

Even with a disguise, it’s clear the new A3 is an evolution of the current car

A3 Cabriolet won’t make it to the new model line-up

Stylish A3 Cabrio won’t be replaced, and TT Roadster (below) is under threat John McIlroy

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MK3: 2012-2020

Yet more bodystyles for the third A3, with a saloon joining the line-up to sit below the A4 in Audi’s range. Dwindling three-door sales make this the last A3 to be offered in this form.

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AUDI is set to axe the A3 Cabriolet from its range when the fourth generation of the family hatchback arrives, Auto Express has learned. The three-door hatchback version of the A3 is being dropped altogether, due to falling sales. And this, coupled with a desire to simplify production and concerns about increased complexity, cost and weight, has prompted Audi to also cull the Cabriolet (the company’s entrylevel drop-top) from the range. Audi’s product marketing chief Fermín Soneira Santos declined to confirm that the A3 Cabrio would be axed, but he told us that the industry in general was looking very hard at the viability of open-topped models. “Probably cabrios are going to become under pressure in the near future; it’s not only an Audi thing,” he said. “At the end of the day, it’s all about the business case – volume and profitability. And the volumes have become even smaller. “The UK is an important market for cabrios, but elsewhere it’s more of a challenge. Especially in China, which is such an important global market for us now. Cabrios are a little heavier and more complex, the aerodynamics affect efficiency

too, and the volumes are relatively low. Right now, there are many cabriolets in many different segments from different premium manufacturers; that’s one area in the future where I think we’ll see a big change.” Senior Audi sources have confirmed to Auto Express that the A3 Cabrio is indeed the model in the firing line. However, there is also intense debate within Audi on the future of the TT sports car. Those in favour of a pure-electric successor to that model might win the debate at board level, but it’s open to question whether a roadster derivative would still be part of the range. In addition, the larger A5 Cabriolet could also be under close scrutiny.

“The A3 Cabriolet is in the firing line, and the future of the TT and A5 Cabrio are under close scrutiny”

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NEWS Toyota GR collection

Toyota readies a wave of rapid GR models ● Performance division Gazoo Racing to produce hot Corolla, C-HR ● Power will come from petrol turbo triple seen in GR Yaris John McIlroy

John_McIlroy@dennis.co.uk @johnmcilroy

TOYOTA’S Gazoo Racing division is lining up a product blitz over the next three years. And it could see the number of performance models in the Japanese brand’s line-up doubling between now and 2023. Hot versions of the Corolla hatchback and C-HR crossover are among the projects under consideration, as the skunkworks sports division, created 13 years ago by current Toyota president Akio Toyoda, tries to build the brand’s reputation for fun-driving cars. The key to Gazoo Racing’s plans is the new three-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine that features in the recently launched GR Yaris. Codenamed G16E-GTS, the motor is the world’s most powerful three-cylinder unit, with up to 268bhp on tap in Japanese editions of the baby hot hatch. However, in developing the engine for the GR Yaris, Gazoo’s engineers have had an eye on installing it elsewhere – not least because the company wants to recoup the intensive costs involved. Crucially, a senior Gazoo Racing executive has told Auto Express that the unit “can be used in other applications” and that it “can be offered in more than one state of tune”. He also conceded that this was “not an engine that had to be built” for the GR Yaris to exist – a hint that it will indeed go on to have a wider range of applications. Auto Express understands that the next model to get the GR treatment is likely to be the C-HR crossover. It’s unclear whether this project will be squeezed into the life cycle of the current car, or form part of the second generation, which is due by the end of 2021. The decision to build a high-performance small SUV (previewed by our exclusive image) will anger purists. But such a model will give Gazoo Racing a foothold in an increasingly

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important performance car market. Volkswagen recently launched the 296bhp T-Roc R, Hyundai’s N division is readying its take on the Kona crossover and Ford is lining up an ST version of its new Puma. Soon after the C-HR will come a model that should appeal to hot-hatch enthusiasts: a GR Corolla (previewed by our images). Well placed sources suggest that such a vehicle is likely to target the more restrained hot hatchbacks, becoming a rival for models such as the Ford Focus ST and Hyundai i30 N instead of the full-house Honda Civic Type R and Renault Mégane R.S. Trophy. Even so, even a mildly detuned version of the Yaris’s engine could give the GR Corolla around 250bhp – and again, the smaller model’s six-speed manual would likely feature. As with the C-HR, the Corolla’s basic TNGA architecture, including multi-link suspension, would give Gazoo’s engineers a solid base for a hot hatch. Toyota is in a good position to expand its performance line-up, just as most other brands are rationalising theirs. Its long-term devotion to hybrid powertrains across its range has made it relatively safe from the threat of any fines for not meeting EU targets on fleet-average emissions. Further hybrid, plug-in hybrid and pure-electric models are planned between now and 2025, awarding Toyota additional leeway, especially given the relatively small volumes likely to be involved in GR products. Speaking exclusively to Auto Express, Toyota’s European President and CEO Johan van Zyl admitted that the GR Yaris has indeed been facilitated by the strong level of hybrid mix elsewhere in the range. “Is GR Yaris really a volume contributor? No,” he said. “It’s not going to be. But does it help with the positioning of your cars – more fun, excitement? Yes, it helps. And if you add it to the mix and calculate the impact to our CO2 averages in g/km, we can accommodate that.” One model that is unlikely to get the Yaris’s turbo motor, however, is the next generation of GT86, set to be called GR86. The rear-drive sports car, which is focused on fine handling more than outright pace, is only able to have a successor because of a continued manufacturing and development tie-up with Subaru. Engineers believe that the existing solution – a low-mounted ‘boxer’ engine – remains the ideal configuration for the GR86’s key parameters, so the model is likely to be powered by an updated version of the existing Subaru-sourced motor.

GR COROLLA HOTTER

Fast Corolla will use GR Yaris engine and focus on all-round ability, rather than hardcore performance

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES GR C-HR EVOLVED

Next model to get Gazoo’s makeover will be Toyota’s small SUV, either for this generation or the next

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Toyota GR collection

NEWS Avarvarii

GR YARIS OFFICIAL PIONEER

New engine developed for rally-bred GR Yaris will find its way into other models

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NEWS Auto Express survey result

Most readers are willing to pay to drive into city clean-air zones ● Three quarters would spend rather than use public transport

EXCLUSIVE

Tristan Shale-Hester

tristan_shale-hester@dennis.co.uk @tristan_shale

MORE than three quarters of motorists would pay to drive into a town or city clean-air zone instead of using public transport, Auto Express can reveal. An online poll of more than 1,400 readers saw 77 per cent say they would drive into an area with emission restrictions rather than use the bus, train or tram, despite such zones adding to the cost of their journeys. London is the only UK city with a charging zone at present; its Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) costs drivers of non-Euro 6 diesel (roughly pre-2015) cars and non-Euro 4 petrol (pre-2006) cars £12.50 a day to enter the same area as the Congestion Charge Zone. The ULEZ is to expand to the North and South Circular roads in 2021 and a number of cities, including Cambridge, Aberdeen and Birmingham, are considering zones that will charge private motorists. From this summer Birmingham will begin charging drivers of cars not meeting the same standards as the ULEZ to enter its city centre, while Bristol is set to ban all private diesel cars from its centre during peak hours. Jack Cousens, head of roads policy at the AA, said that while the majority of drivers considered improving urban air quality important, “the convenience of the car outweighs the fee of driving into a clean-air zone” and “scepticism around the public transport offering” was a big issue. He added: “The Government has been clear that

STICK WITH THE CAR

Majority of readers are happy to avoid using public transport and pay to drive in clear-air zones

CLEAN-AIR ZONE TRAVEL COSTINGS PUBLIC TRANSPORT

DRIVING INTO TOWN

Station parking: £5.40 Train tickets: £79.70 Tube fares: £12.60

Fuel: £23.32 Parking (10am to 9pm): £23.95 Congestion Charge: £11.50 ULEZ: £12.50

Two adults and two under-16s, return from West Sussex to central London

TOTAL: £98.30

Two adults and two under-16s, driving into town (excluding car insurance etc)

TOTAL: £71.27

a chargeable clean-air zone should be a last resort, rather than a first response.” Emission-control zones have prompted concerns about the potential damage they could do to already under-pressure highstreet shops. Andrew Goodacre, CEO of the British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA), said while “it’s hard not to agree with measures to improve the environment”, he would like authorities “to implement the measures that would preserve, and hopefully increase, the footfall on the high streets”. Goodacre added: “This could be done by improved infrastructure, improved public transport and better park-and-ride schemes. If the policy isn’t joined-up, it will simply move pollution elsewhere, with increased emissions on the way to out-of-town retail parks.”

JLR boss steps down after 10 years at helm JAGUAR Land Rover’s CEO, Sir Ralf Speth, has confirmed that he is stepping down from his role at the helm of the UK’s biggest car manufacturer. An emergency board meeting was held on Thurs 30 Jan to ratify the decision. Speth also confirmed in the meeting that he will adopt a senior role on the board of JLR’s parent company, Tata Motors, and step down as CEO of JLR in September this year. Speth said: “I feel very honoured to have worked with so many dedicated and creative people, both inside and outside of JLR. We have elevated Jaguar and Land Rover. I want to say thank you for all their support and commitment. “We offer our customers multi-awardwinning products and will continue to

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surprise with the best pipeline of new, innovative products we have ever had. Personally, I am looking forward to new and exciting challenges.” In his 10 years as CEO, Speth has had a rollercoaster ride with the business. Massive investment in product saw huge profits, especially across the Range Rover business, before sales of diesel-engined vehicles slumped and the Chinese market slowed down, forcing JLR into the red and leading to widespread redundancies. There’s no word yet on who will replace Speth this September. But his fellow Tata board member Hanne Sorensen, formerly chief executive of the tanker company Maersk, is rumoured to have been lined up to take the helm.

“In his 10 years as CEO, Speth had a rollercoaster ride with the business“

After leaving JLR, Speth will take a senior role on the board of parent company Tata

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Status quo remains as Britain leaves the EU ● No changes until transition period ends ● Current licences and insurance are valid Hugo Griffiths

Lotus reveals roadbiased Evora GT410 LOTUS has expanded its Evora line-up with a more comfort-oriented model. The GT410 (above) gets more padded seats, air-con, sat-nav, Apple CarPlay, a reversing camera and a DAB radio. Sound insulation and cabin storage are improved, a glass tailgate increases rear visibility, and the car has more road-biased Michelin tyres. The 410bhp 3.5-litre V6 engine is unchanged, and the £82,900 GT410 undercuts the Evora GT410 Sport by £3,000.

Smart motorways on hold during stocktake NO new smart motorways will open until a safety “stocktake” has been completed, and the schemes could be stopped if they are less safe than motorways with permanent hard shoulders, the Transport Secretary has announced. Grant Shapps told the House of Commons: “Stretches that are being worked on will not be opened until we have the outcome of the stocktake. We must make them at least as safe, if not safer [than normal motorways], otherwise they can’t continue.”

Bentley’s ice-racing Conti GT makes debut BENTLEY built a unique Continental GT W12 (below) to compete in the GP Ice Race in Zell am See, Austria, last weekend. It has studded snow tyres, while a raised ride height, a unique livery, sports exhaust and the required safety kit round out the changes. At the wheel was Junior World Rally Championship driver Catie Munnings, who became Bentley Motorsport’s first modern-day female racer.

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BARRING dramatic developments in the hours after this magazine went to press on Friday, Britain is now no longer part of the European Union. Much has been written in the 43 months since we voted to leave the EU, but we can now say with certainty how Brexit will affect motorists – until the transition period is scheduled to end on 31 December 2020, at least. So what is going to change for drivers? Not much. During transition most EU rules stay in place, to the extent you can still use EU passport lines and European health insurance cards remain valid. Transition aims to give negotiators time to strike deals, or agree that no deals can be reached, so the status quo remains for as long as it runs. We have, however, received a number of questions from readers asking all manner of EU-related motoring questions, which we will attempt to answer here. These answers are brief, simply because in effect nothing has changed for the motorist. We may need to revisit this issue with an in-depth guide in the future, but in the meantime we asked sister title Auto Bild’s editor-in-chief for his take (right).

“So what is going to change for motorists? Not much”

BREXIT HOTLINE We answer your FAQs

Q Do I now need an International Driving Permit (IDP) to drive in an EU country?

“No. UK licences are valid in the European Economic Area (the EU plus Liechtenstein and Norway) during transition.”

Q Will my car insurance be affected? “No. UK insurance policies must still give third-party EU cover during transition; comprehensive European cover is best, though, so check if you have this.”

Q What about my breakdown policy? “If you have European breakdown cover, this will remain valid during transition.”

Q What about availability of new cars? “Potential supply constraints for new cars during transition will likely be down to tough new emission rules and targets, rather than the transition itself.”

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FROM an outsider’s view – and this is the only view that we as Germans can take – Brexit is a big misunderstanding. And the misunderstanding is that things will get better. I don‘t think so, truly not. Princess Di loved her Audi Cabrio; Boris Johnson loves his Toyota Previa; the world loves the MINI (although it‘s a BMW). But Lotus and the London taxi belong to China, Bentley to Volkswagen, Rolls-Royce to BMW, and the [outgoing] boss of Jaguar is a German. Our industry sells close to 700,000 cars every year in the UK, more than in any other European country. The world is one. We are one team. Who needs new taxes, fewer jobs, vanished industry, higher prices and border controls? You may not be sending billions to Brussels anymore, but you will not save a penny. TOM DRECHSLER, Editor in Chief of Cars, BILD Group

Alpine gets an off-road makeover THIS is the Alpine A110 SportsX, a oneoff design study that pays homage to the French firm’s rich rallying heritage. However, the company has said it has no plans to put it into production. The A110 SportsX gets an 80mm wider body than the standard car, enlarged air intakes, blacked-out headlight covers, and restyled bumpers, as well as a new two-tone paint job. The car’s off-road makeover is completed by a pair of roofmounted skis, and a suspension set-up that has been raised by 60mm. The A110 SportsX uses the standard model’s 248bhp 1.8-litre four-cylinder turbo that develops 320Nm of torque. Power is sent to the rear wheels via a seven-speed automatic gearbox.

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THIS is the revised Renault Mégane. The facelifted model gets a mild cosmetic update, but the biggest change comes under the bonnet, where a new plug-in hybrid powertrain can be found for the first time. Called the Mégane E-Tech Plug-in, this model uses a 1.6-litre petrol engine, 9.8kWh battery and two electric motors. Total power output stands at 158bhp, although full performance details are to be confirmed. However, Renault does say that the plug-in will be able to drive at speeds of up to 84mph in zero-emissions mode, and there’s a claimed range of 31 miles. The new PHEV set-up will first find its way into the Sport Tourer estate, with the hatchback following later in the year. Both models are treated to the same subtle cosmetic upgrades, which is limited to new LED headlight graphics externally. Meanwhile the cabin gains a host of tech upgrades, such as a new 9.3-inch display with a smartphone-inspired operating set-up. The old seven-inch digital speedometer is replaced by a 10.2-inch display, too. Renault has also introduced greater levels of semi-autonomous systems. The Level 2 self-driving tech will let the Mégane accelerate, brake and steer for short periods with minimal input from the driver. At the top of the range, the Mégane R.S. receives minor tweaks to keep pace with the Ford Focus ST and Hyundai i30 N. The 276bhp version has been dropped, so both R.S. and Trophy models develop the same 296bhp. Torque stays at 400Nm for cars equipped with a six-speed manual gearbox, while dual-clutch automatic versions get 10Nm more than before, with 420Nm. The Trophy adds further focus with new spring rates and a stiffer rollbar. A Torsen limited-slip differential helps to deploy the power to the road more effectively, while the four-wheel steering set-up is retained.

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Skoda teases 245bhp Octavia vRS iV plug-in SKODA has confirmed the next Octavia vRS will be available as a performance-based plug-in hybrid. Badged vRS iV, the upcoming hot hatch has been previewed in a series of official sketches. Auto Express first reported on the hybrid vRS in January, and Skoda has subsequently confirmed this will indeed be the first vRS model to make use of hybrid power. Although full technical specifications have not yet been announced, the Czech brand has said that the car will develop 245bhp. The sketches also reveal the vRS iV will be available as a hatchback and an estate. It will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March. PAGE 32: Skoda Superb iV Estate driven

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Plug-in vRS hot hatch set to match petrol version for power 30-mile EV range will offer a unique feature in the class this, coupled with the extra motor, will add more than 250kg to the kerbweight. As such, expect the vRS PHEV to be slightly slower in a straight line than the petrol version. But equally, that battery will give it the ability to go for about 30 miles on electricity alone – potentially giving the Octavia vRS a key advantage over rivals like the Ford Focus ST. The Octavia vRS diesel will continue to use the existing EA288 motor with up to 197bhp. Skoda is said to have ruled out fitting the twin-turbocharged version of this engine, which is currently used in the Kodiaq vRS, where it makes 237bhp. Sources are remaining tight-lipped on when the range of Octavia vRS models will reach showrooms. However, we’re likely to see the car for the first time in the spring, perhaps as one of Skoda’s big debuts at the Geneva Motor Show. That would mean UK sales could start by next autumn. The plug-in vRS has the potential to be the most expensive Octavia in the model’s history, with a price tag approaching £32,000.

TEASER Official sketches reveal new look of vRS iV, while we predicted the car’s look in Issue 1,607 (left)

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THE newly launched Skoda Octavia is that the new model is being tuned to match poised to get its widest range of highthe output of the petrol vRS. That model will performance variants ever, Auto Express can use the 2.0-litre turbo petrol motor from the reveal, because the family car’s vRS line-up VW Group’s ubiquitous EA888 family. will include a hybrid version for the first time. Skoda wants its next vRS (previewed in our The Octavia has always had one of the exclusive images) to be the most powerful most varied approaches to what constitutes ever, so we can expect the petrol version a hot hatch. As well as hatchback and to develop in excess of 245bhp – more than estate bodystyles, two and four-wheel the output of the vRS 245 that was sold in the drive, it’s also been offered with diesel second half of the Mk3 Octavia’s life. power as a more efficient alternative to Assuming that the 1.4 TSI engine the conventional turbo petrol versions. produces the same 148bhp as it does Senior company sources have told Auto in the Golf GTE, that would leave around Express that this policy will continue with 100bhp to be developed by the electric the new model, which was unveiled in motor, which will be sited, as usual, November. But in the name of efficiency, between the car’s engine and gearbox. Skoda’s engineers have also found a The total system torque is expected to way of cranking up the VW Group’s be around 400Nm – enough to get the car plug-in hybrid powertrain to become (which will have a dual-clutch automatic a performance variant in its own right. gearbox and no manual option) from The new Octavia vRS PHEV will use the 0-62mph in about seven seconds. same 1.4-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol Perhaps a bigger challenge for the Skoda engine as the recently launched Golf GTE. No team will be keeping the vRS PHEV’s weight power figures have been confirmed for the down and maintaining handling agility. The hot hybrid, but Auto Express understands car will have a battery of at least 13kWh and

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AMG already has some EV experience with SLS Electric Drive MERCEDES’ performance division AMG will launch pureelectric ‘entry performance’ models within the next four years, the company’s boss has told Auto Express. The sporting division has been a hugely successful part of Daimler’s brand portfolio, delivering significant profits. But while it has dabbled with pure-EVs (with the SLS Electric Drive, above), there are said to be significant differences of opinion at management level on how quickly it should start moving away from V8 engines and towards electrification. Now Daimler boss Ola Kallenius has told us that the first AMG hybrid will arrive at the end of this year – and that work is already under way on a range of pure-electric cars. “AMG is going electric,” Kallenius said. “We’re going to have a motorsport-style hybridisation of the whole AMG portfolio. And we’re also looking at fully electric vehicles. We’ve split the strategy into two types – so ‘entry performance’ [said to be AMG versions of existing pureelectric Mercedes, such as its EQ range] will be before 2025. And then full-scale electric AMGs [likely to be on bespoke or at least an AMG-only platform, giving greater performance and range] will be around that year, possibly a little later.”

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UK car production drops dramatically in 2019 THE number of cars, vans and engines built in the UK in 2019 fell dramatically when compared with the previous year. According to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) chief Mike Hawes, the 14.2 per cent drop in the number of new cars built here was “gravely concerning”. With 1.3 million cars built, 2019 was the worst year for UK manufacturing since 2010. One glimmer of growth was to be found in the number of alternatively-fuelled vehicles (hybrids and EVs); UK production of these rose by 34.7 per cent, with AFVs making up about 15 per cent of the total number of cars built here. The SMMT data reveals that the number of cars made for the UK market fell by 12.3 per cent, but with 81 per cent of cars built here being exported, global issues were the most significant factors in the drop.

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DO company cars have to be dull? Not if the Peugeot 508 Hybrid SW has anything to say about it. A plugin hybrid powertrain matched with gorgeous styling means that it should be a purchase that satisfies both head and heart. But is it any good? Alex Ingram finds out.

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Corsa: it’s one of Britain’s favourite cars and has been around for years. There’s now a new one that has a lot in common with the Peugeot 208. Is it still a worthy buy or is the Renault Clio (Carbuyer’s Car of the Year) a better choice? James Batchelor finds out.

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Mercedes puts its price on two new plug-ins MERCEDES has confirmed the prices for two new plug-in hybrid versions of its GLC and GLE models. The GLC 300 e (below, right) has a 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine and a 13.5kWh battery that will give a pureelectric range of up to 29 miles, and is priced from £49,687. Meanwhile the GLE 350 de (below, left) has a 2.0-litre fourcylinder diesel-based set-up, and costs from £61,360.

MINI ELECTRIC While rivals such

as Renault and Honda have built standalone electric superminis, the MINI Electric is based on the standard three-door hatch. Does this evolutionary step make sense for the newcomer? Richard Ingram finds out.

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NEWS Aston Martin’s future

Future of Aston Martin is secured – but at a price OFFICIAL British marque commits to supercars and F1, but EVs are on hold

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ASTON Martin Lagonda has secured a £500million investment that has helped to guarantee the firm’s future. Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll has taken a 16.7 per cent stake in the company, becomes chairman and will rebrand his Racing Point Formula One team as the Aston Martin works team for the 2021 season. Andy Palmer, Aston’s CEO, told Auto Express that the investment was “a big moment for the company,” and that “we’ve got what we need to deliver a luxury strategy.” However, the new investment doesn’t come without difficulties, and redundancies are likely at the company’s Gaydon HQ. There will probably be a net gain in the workforce, though, with new staff joining at the DBX factory in South Wales. Aston’s future product plan has also been rocked by the new investment. The major setback is the relaunch of Aston’s all-electric Lagonda brand. “Our Lagonda strategy isn’t dead, it’s just delayed,” Palmer told us. The project has been shoved back beyond 2025, rather than the 2022 launch originally planned. The all-electric Rapide E project – in spite of deliveries being expected this year – has also been ‘paused’. The official line is that investment in EVs will be delayed beyond 2025, although Palmer is still bullish about electrification in general: “All our vehicles will still feature some form of electrification by the middle of the decade,” he said. Aston’s mid-engined programme also gets a reshuffle; the £1million Valhalla is still on target for customer deliveries in 2022, but the return of the Vanquish has been

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pushed back to 2023. The car is intended as Aston’s rival for the Ferrari 488. The added investment guarantees production of the Valkyrie supercar for the second half of 2020, with the faster Valkyrie AMR Pro still scheduled for 2021. However, these are the last cars to benefit from Aston Martin’s relationship with Red Bull Racing, which finishes at the end of the 2020 F1 season; Palmer confirmed that Red Bull will not be involved with the Valhalla project. He also admitted to a tinge of sadness that his relationship with Red Bull Racing

was drawing to a close. “When I walk through the Red Bull Hall of Fame and see many of the cars with Infiniti and then Aston Martin liveries, those cars mean a lot to me,” said Palmer. “I count Christian [Horner] as a friend, but this is business.” When the Aston Martin works team takes to the F1 grid in 2021, it will also use new Mercedes-sourced engines – just like its V8 road cars. Aston has signed an agreement to appear on the F1 grid for the next 10 years – meaning it will return to the sport as a full factory operation for the first time since 1960.

“It’s a big moment for the company. We’ve got what we need to deliver a luxury strategy” DR ANDY PALMER Aston Martin CEO

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HOT TOPIC New VW Golf GTI FROM: Ben Clark I’M fairly ambivalent about the standard Mk8 Golf, but I really like the look of it with the GTI badge, stripes and wheels. It looks very sporty – as a hot hatch should – and a bit futuristic. I hope the production version looks like this!

FROM: Aaronster CONSIDERING the Mk8 Golf is essentially a reskin of the Mk7, I’m not sure what this will offer. VW seemed to have got the previous GTI to a point of perfection; you’d be better off getting a used one of those rather than wait for a Mk8 Clubsport S. Radovan Varicak

Eighth-generation VW Golf range will start from £23,975 TTHE HE n new ew Volkswagen Golf will cost from fro fr om £ £23,975 2 in the UK, VW has confirmed. con cco nf From launch it will only be available as a hatchback in new Life and Style specifications. VW’s popular R-Line trim will arrive later this year, along with an entry-level trim, the Golf Estate and the performance-focused GTE, GTI, GTD and R variants. Standard equipment for the Golf Life includes 16-inch alloys, automatic LED headlamps, front and rear parking sensors, 10.25-inch digital instruments, wireless smartphone charging and keyless start. The Golf Style is priced from £25,470 and adds a set of larger 17-inch wheels and different LED headlamps, while the cabin gets wood-style trim inserts, more ambient lighting colours and ‘Art Velours’ seat upholstery. Buyers can also choose from a range of options including matrix LED headlamps (£875), a head-up display (£625), and VW’s Dynamic Chassis Control system (£950), which adds a set of adaptive dampers. Four engines will be available from launch: two petrols and two diesels. The 1.5-litre four-cylinder TSI turbo petrol is offered with 128bhp or 148bhp, while 113bhp and 148bhp versions of the 2.0 TDI diesel are also available.

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SLOVAKIA has a secret: it’s an automotive giant. Since 2007, no other nation has produced as many vehicles per capita as this former communist land, with car-making a fundamental part of the country’s transition from early crony capitalism post Czechoslovakia, to a highly developed free-market economy. More than one million new cars were made here in 2018; almost one for every five people living within its landlocked 19,000 square-mile territory. Volkswagen has been building cars in Slovakia since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and continues to to this day. The cute little up! has enjoyed a prolonged stint on the firm’s Bratislava production line, alongside its SEAT Mii and Skoda Citigo sisters. Big SUVs like the VW Touareg, Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne are born here, too. PSA also holds large investments in the country, as does Kia; both build many of their family hatchbacks for the European market here. But the most recent big name to invest in this small yet mighty automotive heartland is Jaguar Land Rover. JLR chose Nitra, a city in the west of the country, for its Slovakian factory. Nitra is not a place with an enormous industrial heritage to boast of. For most of its near-1,200-year history it’s been an agricultural hub, with dairy and grain-processing factories intrinsically attached to its farming focus. A plastics factory installed during communist rule remains open to this day, but it’s just been dwarfed by JLR’s latest investment. Sitting like an alien fortress in a lowland clearing north of the town is a brand-new car factory, the result of a £1billion investment. From a distance, the 300,000-square-metre facility dominates the scenery; up close, the plant is absolutely spotless.

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Opened in October 2018, JLR Nitra can produce 150,000 Land Rovers a year. It’s a big deal for the city, as proven by an open day not long after the gates opened. Such events are necessary, Land Rover says, because it wants to let locals see what goes on in the plant, and because there is high demand from local schools for educational tours. This makes sense, because the huge amounts of automotive investment the country has seen means many future Slovak workers are likely to find employment at sites like Nitra. The Discovery has rolled off the line since JLR Nitra opened, but now it shares space with Land Rover’s most-anticipated car for years: the all-new Defender. And it’s full steam ahead on the factory floor. There’s nothing radical about how the reborn icon is made. The body, paint plus trim and finish shops are all present, while some new developments, such as a monorail production line called Kuka Pulse, are a first for Europe. But the biggest difference between Nitra and Slovakia’s other car plants isn’t its tech, but its people. The city has a population of 76,000, and few have any expertise in automotive manufacturing, so recruiting those who work at Nitra has seen JLR invest heavily in skills and training, as well as machinery. We’re told the production line is staffed by former supermarket workers, butchers, builders and more, all of whom look right at home assembling the new Defender. Many of the teams working there are all-female, too. Typically, only a fraction of the workforce at a Slovakian car plant are women, yet at JLR Nitra, 30 per cent of the 2,800 staff are female. And at the helm of it all is a Brit. Russ Leslie has worked for Land Rover since 1993,

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starting on the production line of the original Defender in Solihull, and moving to Slovakia in 2017. He’s very proud of what the company has created in this city, previously non-existent on the automotive map. “We are fundamentally a British company,” Leslie says. “All of the engineering and design is still done at our UK facilities. But we are growing.” He adds: “Day one is the dirtiest it will ever be here; it will only get better.” Given how impressive the Land Rover factory looked during our visit to Nitra, that’s some pronouncement.

“All of the engineering and design is still done at our UK facilities. But we are growing” RUSS LESLIE Operations director, JLR Nitra (right)

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WE’RE likely to see plenty of new Vauxhalls arriving over the coming months, as the company taps into the huge resources of its new owner PSA to expand its horizons. And here’s one of the more intriguing newcomers made possible by new ownership: the Grandland X Hybrid4. It boasts some promising specs. The car has a 197bhp 1.6-litre turbocharged petrol engine, along with a pair of electric motors – one on each axle – for a combined total output of 296bhp and 520Nm. That makes it the most powerful model in Vauxhall’s current line-up – and by some way. There’s an eight-speed automatic transmission, and the electric motors help to deliver punchy performance; 0-62mph takes a claimed 5.9 seconds, and the car is capable of up to 84mph on electricity alone. Vauxhall claims that the 13.2kWh lithiumion battery will give you around 35 miles of

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all-electric range, and while there’s no DC charging, the relatively modest size of the battery means that a 7.2kW home wallbox will be able to fully replenish the cells in just under two hours. Cheekily, though, Vauxhall doesn’t supply even this level of functionality as standard; if you want anything more than the weedy charger that works with a threepin plug, it’ll cost you an extra £500. Prices start from £41,500 for private buyers for SRi Nav models and rise to an eye-watering £46,650 for the Ultimate Nav that we’re driving here. Even on a PCP deal, put down just under £8,000 and the SRi Nav model will be yours for £450 per month. On the road, the Hybrid4 fires up in pureelectric mode as default – a sensible move, allowing you to pull away in silence and with no emissions. We remain to be convinced about the claimed pure-electric capability; our fully charged Hybrid4 was predicting a range of just 30km (19 miles, instead of 35 miles) when we started our journey, and even a sharp focus on efficiency from

the driver failed to stop this figure depleting at a steady rate per mile travelled. Most of the time the car will run in Hybrid mode, judging for itself when it’s most appropriate to fire up the engine. When this does happen, the transition is hard to detect – helped by the petrol motor being smoothrunning and relatively hushed. As a result, the Grandland X is a very refined cruising tool, regardless of which mode you’re in. Over a mixture of pure-electric urban running, forced recharging, hybrid miles and a motorway cruise, we saw around 45mpg – a solid figure, but one that we suspect a non-plug-in Toyota RAV4 would beat. In Sport mode, which gives you maximum performance from the engine and full power from both electric motors, there’s no doubt that the Grandland X is fast – but that’s

mainly in a straight line. Again, the gearbox is smart enough to avoid being flustered when you’re pushing hard, but the rest of the dynamic package can’t quite keep up. The Grandland X has a relatively stiff set-up that allows a good mix of body control and compliance over bumps. But the steering, while direct, has next to no feel, and rapid changes of direction upset the car. Offthe-line pace will make you think, briefly, that you’re in a hot hatch, but the first few corners will remind you that you’re in an SUV. The cabin is nicely screwed together but it’s desperately dull in there. There’s no fully digital instrument panel or head-up display. Some may find the dual analogue gauges for fuel level and battery charge reassuringly conventional, but to us they look old-school for a car with this amount of tech on board.

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Essentials Vauxhall Grandland X Hybrid4 Ultimate Nav Price: Engine: Power/torque: Transmission: 0-60mph: Top speed: Economy: CO2:

£46,650 1.6-litre 4cyl petrol electric 296bhp/520Nm Eight-speed automatic, four-wheel drive 5.9 seconds 146mph 204mpg 34g/km

MERCEDES GLC 300 Mid-life updates arrive on sportier variant of Merc’s family SUV

BMW M850I Porsche Panamera rival aims to be multitasking sports car and GT

SKODA SUPERB iV Plug-in version of Skoda family car will be pick of the range for many

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Black bonnet is a no-cost option; buyers can choose not to specify it if so desired

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PRACTICALITY Rear passenger space

remains decent but hybrid tech means you lose underfloor boot storage. However, there’s still a capacity of 380 litres with the seats up and 1,528 litres if you drop the rear bench

EQUIPMENT The eight-inch central display is standard but looks a little soft compared with the hi-res screens available in some rivals. Full LED headlamps and ventilated seats are included on top-spec models

Dashboard design is a little uninspiring when you consider the tech under the skin

Verdict COMPANY car user-choosers will be attracted to the Vauxhall Grandland X Hybrid4’s low official CO2 emissions. But it still doesn’t quite feel like a magic bullet for private customers, because the list price is pretty high and the monthly finance deals will be hard to outweigh, even if you charge up regularly. An uninspiring cabin, uninvolving handling and average real-world pure-electric range are enough to put it in the middle of the pack, but no better.

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NEWCARS Fiat 500 Mild Hybrid Essentials Fiat 500 Mild Hybrid Launch Edition Price: Engine: Power/torque: Transmission: 0-62mph: Top speed: Economy: CO2:

£16,795 1.0-litre 3cyl petrol MHEV 69bhp/92Nm Six-speed manual, front-wheel drive 13.8 seconds 104mph 53.3mpg (WLTP) 88g/km (NEDC)

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FIRST DRIVE Italian baby gets electric assistance for ﬁrst time James Howe

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THE Fiat 500 is still doing Italy’s biggest brand proud 13 years into its life. After a major refresh in 2016, mild-hybrid power is the city car’s big news for 2020. It’s the first step in Fiat’s efforts to cut fleet tailpipe emissions ahead of a new, all-electric 500 that’s coming later this year. The 500 Mild Hybrid is powered by a new three-cylinder petrol engine that doesn’t follow the modern trend for turbocharging, creating an unusual combination of naturally aspirated power and electrified assistance. The latter is made up of a 12-volt beltdriven starter motor and a tiny 11Ah battery. Fiat is yet to confirm WLTP CO2 emissions but claims this powertrain delivers a 30 per

cent reduction over the outgoing 1.2-litre model; average WLTP economy is 53.3mpg. The system achieves its savings through quick start-stop functionality, electrical assistance under acceleration, and an ability to switch off its engine at speeds below 18mph. Shifting into neutral kills the engine but keeps the car’s ancillaries functional, although there’s no all-electric drive mode. The set-up will arrive first on a high-spec Launch Edition car before appearing across the 500 range, and our initial impressions of the system are positive. There’s no arguing with the appeal of the car’s retro styling, which is complemented here by unique alloys and ‘Dew Green’ paint, intended as a nod to the car’s eco-friendly credentials. The colour scheme continues inside, where the only immediately obvious

change is limited to seats trimmed in fabric made from recycled ocean plastic. A central screen sits in the dash, while the smaller screen behind the steering wheel remains; the former can be used to track eco driving data, while the latter now includes information like battery charge and gear recommendations. On the move, the three-cylinder engine requires plenty of revs to deliver its best and although it doesn’t feel quite as laboured as the old 1.2-litre, the new motor is not very refined. Performance is adequate but falls short of what’s offered in 83bhp 0.9-litre turbocharged TwinAir models; although it’s fine around town, it feels a little breathless on the open road. The snappy stop-start system works well in its natural urban environment, while using the coasting feature is as simple as slipping the six-speed gearbox into neutral as you approach a set of traffic lights. It’s a strange feeling if you’re used to working your way down through the gears as you’re coming to a stop, so it’s likely that some motorists will need to adjust their driving habits to benefit from the electrical assistance. The 500 charges its battery under deceleration and braking more or less imperceptibly, and you don’t get the

strange brake pedal feel that can be found in some of the more aggressive systems. Otherwise, the overall driving experience in this new Mild Hybrid is familiarly 500; a slightly firm ride that can verge on crashy over larger imperfections, a high driving position and good all-round visibility are perhaps the most obvious features. The steering is well weighted but lacks feel, and doesn’t offer much feedback, although it can be made lighter at the press of a button for low-speed manoeuvres.

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Fiat 500 Mild Hybrid

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As you drive, hybrid system’s battery is topped up almost imperceptibly

ENGINE New 1.0-litre mild-hybrid set-up

replaces old 1.2-litre four-cylinder engine, and is the first three-cylinder motor to be offered in the 500 after 13 years on sale. Two-cylinder turbo TwinAir engine remains on sale for now

BATTERY Hybrid system runs from a tiny

11Ah battery, which is small enough to fit under front left seat. However it takes up foot room for rear passengers in the already-tight rear quarters. More spacious city cars are available

NEED TO KNOW

Mild Hybrid version of 500 is being sold in every trim level, and the cheapest model is the Pop, which costs £12,665

Despite its new drivetrain, Mild Hybrid drives much like any other 500

Verdict FIAT hasn’t played too much with the 500’s multi-million-selling recipe in coming up with this mild hybrid. The system is well implemented and so mild that it’s near-imperceptible for most of the time. Plus Fiat’s figures say it’s economical – although the CO2 emissions will change when WLTP testing is introduced in April. For buyers wanting more practicality and comfort, the 500’s Panda sibling is available with this drivetrain too.

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NEWCARS Hyundai i10 Pete Gibson

Compact i10 has a new-found style, while its solid handling helps to inspire confidence

Hyundai i10

Performance

Running costs

0-62mph/top speed

54.3mpg (official)

14.6 seconds/97mph

£46 fill-up

FIRST UK DRIVE All-new city car offers a surprising amount of kit and space Sean Carson

sean_carson@dennis.co.uk @sean_carson_

IS the city-car sector dead? Brands have been leaving this area of the market, but Hyundai remains confident it can make the formula work with its new i10. It’s doing so with a tech offensive and a more practical body for this third-generation car. As well as offering more inside, Hyundai has sharpened up the styling to keep it fresh for image-conscious buyers in the class. Our SE Connect test car is the sweet spot of the range, and although the i10 still offers a relentlessly grey cabin, you do get an eight-inch touchscreen with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. This works well, with decent graphics and plenty of screen area to show lots of functions, giving it a big-car feel that’s backed up by the i10’s dynamics. Standard kit also includes autonomous emergency braking plus lane-keep assist. Air-con, DAB, cruise control and a rear camera are also fitted, but wireless charging (as part of the £1,000 Tech Pack that also includes built-in nav) isn’t available on this trim level. No matter, as the i10 is best as it comes, and at £13,495 as standard, it’s not a cheap car anyway. For this the Hyundai is powered by a 66bhp 1.0-litre three-cylinder naturally aspirated petrol engine. It’s best described as adequate, because it doesn’t feel all that keen, but the 96Nm of torque feels strong enough. It helps to

DRIVING New i10 is comfortable out on the open road, although its standard-fit lane assist and emergency braking are a little over-sensitive deliver a 14.6-second 0-62mph sprint, but is more useful in the ebb and flow of city traffic, where the i10 can be left in gear. However, the five-speed manual’s shift action is positive if you want to work it, and the steering is a good weight for around town (but not too light so it feels nervous on the motorway), while the ride is acceptable. It’s on the firmer side, which again helps with stability at higher speeds and makes the handling feel fairly secure on country roads, but the i10 still soaks up most of what city streets throw at it fairly well. This grown-up feel is reinforced by the roomy rear of the interior. Combined with a 252-litre boot, it means the i10 is nearly as practical as some smaller superminis. Claimed economy of 54.3mpg and 104g/km emissions should mean low costs and round off a convincing package.

NEED TO KNOW

i10 only weighs 921kg and is fairly fun to drive. Ride is acceptable, handling secure and refinement relatively good

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Mercedes GLC Coupé

Essentials Hyundai i10 1.0 SE Connect Price: Engine: Power/torque: Transmission: 0-62mph: Top speed: Economy: CO2:

£13,495 1.0-litre 3cyl petrol 66bhp/96Nm Five-speed manual, front-wheel drive 14.6 seconds 97mph 54.3mpg 104g/km

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Mercedes GLC 300 Coupé FIRST DRIVE Mid-life updates arrive on sportier SUV variant

Essentials Mercedes GLC 300 Coupé 4MATIC AMG Line Premium Price: Engine: Power/torque: Transmission:

£50,360 2.0-litre 4cyl turbo petrol 254bhp/370Nm Nine-speed automatic, four-wheel drive 0-62/top spd: 6.3 seconds/149mph Economy/CO2: 29.4mpg/175g/km

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EQUIPMENT Eight-inch screen is

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a rarity in a city car. Standard CarPlay and Android Auto are all you need, and work well, giving access to nav through your device. Graphics are sharp enough

Cabin feels high in quality and space is good, although the footwells are cramped

James Brodie

James_Brodie@dennis.co.uk @jimmybrods

PRACTICALITY Rear-seat space is

good compared with some rivals in this sector, while 252-litre boot is a decent size too. It means i10 can almost act as a supermini – an impressive feat

Verdict THE all-new i10’s enhanced technology and improved practicality have been joined by a little extra refinement, all of which makes it a challenger in the city-car class. We’ll put it head to head with its closest rivals soon, but for now the Hyundai looks like it offers a decent balance of affordability, usability, modernity and refinement for an urban runaround.

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THE changing landscape of Europe’s premium car market is captured quite well by the Mercedes GLC. It’s an SUV, but it’s also offered as the sportier-looking Coupé for buyers wanting to stand out. Of course, the reality is that it’s a less practical model for more money, with a 500-litre boot that’s 80 litres smaller. For 2020, the GLC has been refreshed with a minor exterior redesign, while inside there’s a new 10.25-inch floating display sitting in the middle of the dashboard. The new MBUX infotainment system looks great, but we’ve found it lacking in logical operation in other models. For those who like using touchscreen inputs, that’s now available in the GLC. Wireless smartphone charging becomes an option, too. Digital dials are also available, with a bright and crisp 12.3-inch panel replacing the previous car’s analogue set-up. Sitting in front of it is a brand-new multifunction steering wheel. Five years into its life, the GLC still feels like a high-quality product,

NEED TO KNOW

Air suspension is only offered on AMG Line Ultimate trim

and these updates bring some muchneeded technology to the mix. The GLC 300 features a 254bhp 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine joined by a 48-volt belt starter generator system, which enables engine cut-off for emissions-free coasting. Performance is good, and on the motorway the GLC is refined, with seamless and nearundetectable engine cut-off, courtesy of the mild-hybrid system. It’s not an engaging engine, though, and does little to excite. Based on worst-case-scenario WLTP figures, it’s not economical, either. For many, diesel will remain a better choice in the GLC, especially given that the 300 d is similarly priced, offers better performance and is cheaper. Company car buyers can really cut costs with the new 300 e plug-in, too. The GLC Coupé’s main adversary is the BMW X4, which is more enjoyable to drive than the Mercedes. It’s also a more modern product with better engines, and even the feisty, six-cylinder M40i model isn’t too far out of reach compared with the £50,000 that Mercedes charges for the GLC 300 in AMG Line Premium driven here. Put simply, the BMW smacks of being better value.

EQUIPMENT New 10.25-inch display

is fitted as standard across updated GLC range, but only Premium-grade cars and above come with digital dials by default

PRACTICALITY Boot is just as

accessible as in the standard GLC, but it’s 80 litres smaller. 500-litre capacity is still large enough for family life, though

Verdict MERCEDES has added some welcome new technology to the GLC’s cabin, bringing things up to date alongside key rivals such as the BMW X4. The Merc remains a comfortable SUV with a well made, high-quality interior, too. But the GLC 300 in Coupé format is not the sweet spot in the updated range. At more than £50,000 in Premium trim, it’s a lot of money for a four-cylinder SUV of this size.

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NEWCARS BMW M850i Gran Coupé Pete Gibson

Running costs

Performance

24.6mpg (official)

0-62mph/top speed

£83 fill-up

3.9seconds/155mph

Jonathan Burn

Jonathan_Burn@dennis.co.uk @Jonathan_burn

THIS is the BMW M850i xDrive Gran Coupé, the German brand’s answer to hot versions of the Porsche Panamera. It’s tasked with doing a multitude of things: firstly, being based on the 8 Series coupé, it’s a GT at heart and not a full-on sports car, but the use of BMW’s M Performance tag for this M850i means it must marry that cruising ability with performance and handling, so it has to be fundamentally good to drive. Plus those extra doors and rear seats mean it now has to pull off 7 Series levels of luxury and comfort. Quite a list, then. There’s no doubting its performance credentials. Beneath the bonnet is a 522bhp 4.4-litre V8 that develops 750Nm of torque. Linked to an eight-speed automatic gearbox and four-wheel drive, it takes care of the 0-62mph sprint in 3.9 seconds – staggeringly quick for a car weighing 2,070kg. That speed is also matched to an impressive level of

BMWM850i Gran Cou FIRST DRIVE Does Panamera rival pull off its multitasking role? agility and composure on the move for such a big car. The Gran Coupé carries an extra 231mm of bodywork over the regular Coupé, but you’d never know because it feels just as balanced and precise. The steering is really sharp and, in combination with its rear-wheel steering, helps to enhance the BMW’s responses and make it feel like a much smaller, nimbler car. Hit Sport mode and everything tightens up; the steering becomes heavier, the ride noticeably firmer, and the noise from the exhaust amplified through the speakers. The engine has bundles of power right through the rev band, so relentless and rapid

progress is never in short supply. The Gran Coupé does an uncanny impression of a sports car, even at more than five metres long. As capable as it is, the M850i is best left to its own devices in Adaptive mode, where the driver can tailor the engine, suspension and gearbox parameters to suit the road at that exact moment. The body control feels relaxed and fluid, allowing the car to move with the road, but it’s often in contrast to the damping of wheel movements; the big 21-inch alloy wheels thud over potholes and can occasionally pierce into that air of refinement and composure. Even so, the Gran Coupé does its best to transform into a long-legged and relaxing GT car, and mostly succeeds. Although therein lies the problem: the entry-level 840i

does an equally impressive job in this respect while costing almost £30,000 less. So performance is certainly accounted for, but what about luxury? As you’d expect, the M850i is a tech fest inside and beautifully finished. There’s all the kit you’d ever need on board, such as four-zone climate control, Apple CarPlay, adaptive cruise control, a full suite of parking sensors and cameras, heated and ventilated seats, plus gesture control for the infotainment system. It’s as luxurious as a 7 Series up front, but passengers in the back may have some gripes. Although the Gran Coupé is as long as BMW’s flagship saloon, that swooping roofline comes at the expense of headroom. Kneeroom for large adults is acceptable, but you can only seat two people in the rear because the centre console runs the entire length of the car. In truth, a 5 Series is more accommodating and comfortable in the back. Still, the flexible 40:20:40 rear bench lets you make the most of the boot if needed. There’s 440 litres of space with the seats up, but the lid opens like a saloon’s rather than a hatchback’s, as on a Panamera, so it may be awkward to load bulkier items. With the BMW having such a broad range of abilities, there were always going to be compromises. Yet against a Panamera 4S, which is around £6,000 cheaper, more practical and perhaps a little sharper to drive, those compromises will stand out.

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NEED TO KNOW

If the M850i xDrive isn’t powerful enough, a flagship 625bhp M8 Gran Coupé will arrive in showrooms later this year

There’s lots of space in the front seats, and here the M850i is as comfortable as a 7 Series saloon

NEWCARS Essentials BMW M850i xDrive Gran Coupé Price: Engine: Power/torque: Transmission:

0-62mph: Top speed: Economy: CO2:

£97,730 4.4-litre 8cyl twin-turbo 522bhp/750Nm Eight-speed automatic, four-wheel drive 3.9 seconds 155mph 24.6mpg 229g/km

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EQUIPMENT Big 21-inch alloy wheels hide powerful brakes and M Sport painted calipers. Also fitted as standard are heated and ventilated seats, four-zone climate control and adaptive cruise control

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INTERIOR M850i is packed with technology, including a widescreen infotainment system and digital instruments

PRACTICALITY There is space for

three people in the back, but the middle seat is unusable due to the transmission tunnel. Kneeroom is generous but headroom is poor for adults over six feet tall

Verdict THE M850i Gran Coupé has a broad remit, tasked with being part-sports car and part-luxury Grand Tourer. It feels equally comfortable in both roles, but you have to pay for it – literally. Costing more than £100,000 with options, the BMW looks like an incredibly expensive car when the equally impressive, if not quite as rapid, 840i does a remarkably similar job for almost £30,000 less.

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NEWCARS Skoda Superb iV Estate Alex Ingram

Alex_Ingram@dennis.co.uk @AxleIngram

THIS is the Skoda Superb iV Estate. It’s the second plug-in car to join the Czech brand’s line-up, following the Citigo e. But while the dinky city car is fully electric, the Superb mixes petrol and electric drive in a plug-in hybrid system. The petrol-fuelled element comes in the shape of a 1.4-litre four-cylinder turbo, and it’s paired up with a 113bhp electric motor and 13kWh battery. Charging takes place via a port hidden neatly behind the grille, and it takes three hours and 30 minutes to top up the battery from a 3.6kW wallbox. Combined, the two systems develop 215bhp. That’s slightly short of one of this car’s closest rivals, the Peugeot 508 Hybrid, although the Skoda’s 0-62mph time of 7.8 seconds is 0.5 seconds faster than the 508’s. The Superb is also ahead when it comes to refinement. While the Peugeot can feel a little jerky when it switches between electric and petrol power, the Skoda is nearseamless. The biggest clue that something has changed comes when the power dial on the digital display flashes around into the tachometer section. For the most part, the engine just mumbles away in the background, and vibration is minimal. It’s possible to switch through a variety of driving modes to make the most efficient use of the hybrid system. The Superb defaults to E-mode – during our time with the car in cold weather, a full charge promised just over 20 miles of fully electric

range – while Hybrid and Sport modes offer a choice between efficiency and performance. While some cars’ Sport buttons have little effect, the Skoda’s does change its character. All Superb iVs get adaptive dampers as standard, and in their default setting the car has a soft and wallowy feel – amplified by the fact the iV is heavier than the traditional combustion variants. While Sport mode is slightly ambitious in name, it firms things up to the point that both pitch and dive are much better controlled. Elsewhere, the iV comes with the usual Superb traits. The interior design is logical (if a little plain), cabin space is class-leading, and while the underfloor boot storage makes way for a charging cable cubby, the load space is still a vast 510 litres. Prices for the Skoda Superb iV Estate start from £33,250. That’s pricey by Superb standards – an equivalent 187bhp 2.0 TSI petrol costs £4,000 less – but new company car tax rules coming into force in April 2020 will make the iV the cheapest model to run. Crucially, it also undercuts the cheapest Peugeot 508 Hybrid SW by £3,280, and the gap grows to £3,635 at the top of the range. Our SE L test car came with a selection of upgrades; a rear parking camera (£375) will likely come in very handy from time to time, while the optional Virtual Cockpit brings the instrument panel bang up to date. This car also features an £805 towbar, although the iV isn’t the best Superb to buy if you’ll regularly be hauling a large trailer. The iV has a maximum braked towing weight of 1,600kg, but the most powerful 4x4 diesel version is rated at 2,200kg.

“The biggest clue to the switch from electric to petrol power is from the dial on the dash”

PRACTICALITY Passenger space isn’t

affected by the hybrid tech, but underfloor boot storage is sacrificed; the PHEV also has a lower towing weight than the diesel-engined models

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Superb iV drives well, although its extra weight can be felt in corners

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Dark plastics are a familiar Skoda design cue, but digital screens add a premium feel, and the cabin is well built

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Skoda Superb iV Estate

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Otis Clay

Coming soon MUSTANG MACH-E LATE 2020

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Performance 0-62mph/top speed 7.8 seconds/138mph

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o compromise from family favourite

Essentials Skoda Superb iV Estate SE L Price: Engine: Power/torque: Transmission: 0-62mph: Top speed: Economy: CO2:

£36,035 1.4l 4cyl turbo petrol PHEV 215bhp/400Nm Six-speed automatic, front-wheel drive 7.8 seconds 138mph 148.7mpg 38g/km

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Verdict THE adoption of plug-in hybrid power has done very little to dent the appeal of the Skoda Superb Estate. While it’s a little pricier than the conventional petrol and diesel models, the iV still undercuts rivals such as the Peugeot 508 SW Hybrid. And with new Benefit-inKind company car tax rates greatly incentivising low-emissions cars like this, the iV will, for many, become the pick of the range.

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The ultimate guide to buying your new 20-plate

34-PAGE BUYING GUIDE

HOW TO BUY

A NEW CAR Ahead of the 20-registration plate change, we guide you through the complexities of buying a new car in 2020 Hugo Griffiths

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THE new-car market is rich, varied, and populated by hundreds of appealing models, each cleverly marketed and vying for your hard-earned cash. So in advance of the arrival of the new 20 plate on 1 March, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide to buying a new car, taking in everything from the changing face of finance, to the best new cars on the market. We also give you a steer on options, tax and consumer protection, covering everything you need to know before buying. Don’t visit a dealership or open a configurator before reading these pages.

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THERE have never been more purchase routes for buyers. Traditional dealers vie with online brokers and intermediaries for the attention – and wallets – of motorists. But however you buy your car, you’ll need to make sure that you buy right. It’s crucial that you do your homework in order to choose the best model, select the correct finance and get the most from both your dealer, and the car you order. That’s why we start this guide with our 10 commandments of car buying. Here you’ll find some familiar, and not so familiar, gems of information and advice, all of which are intended to make the whole car-buying process just that little bit easier.

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10 COMMANDMENTS

MMANDMENTS R BUYING A NEW CAR

bring you closer to the car of your dreams at a price that will feel like a blessing

Thou shalt gather a range of offers

FOR some, there’s nothing as reassuring as putting your faith in a traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ dealership. A franchised dealer will have familiar branding and offer a full range of vehicles from whichever manufacturer it’s affiliated to. Plus, you’ll be able to take a test drive and discuss your options face-to-face with a member of sales staff. It also offers the best opportunity to negotiate. Many buyers enjoy this part of the process, but others baulk at the idea. Yet whether you love or loathe the process, there are things you can do to make it easier and more productive. Scan manufacturer and dealer websites for the best incentives, and search through online brokers. They’re not always affiliated with a particular brand, but printouts of their best deals will help sharpen your deal-hunting skills, and give you the best possible starting point for negotiations.

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Thou shalt not pay over the odds for options

THINK option prices are set in stone? Think again. You can use them as bargaining chips and try to get them thrown in at a discount, or even for free. A set of floor mats might retail at £100, but the cost to a dealer is a fraction of that, making it an easy way to sweeten a deal. But for the really savvy car buyer, there’s another way. As part of your research, write a list of the features you really want. You might find that they’re extras on the trim you’re looking at buying, but you might be able to spend a little more on the next trim level up to get that must-have kit, and maybe a little more. If you’re lucky there might be a cost-saving, because higher trim levels can offer better value – particularly if you’re buying on finance – since they can mean cars hold their value better (see Page 38).

Thou shalt time the deal right

Thou shalt treat sales staff with respect

PLENTY has been written about choosing the right time of the month or quarter to get the best deal. But it’s also worth considering the times when dealerships are at their quietest, because a dealer that doesn’t have many people walking in off the streets is more likely to cut you a deal than one who has potential customers queuing round the block. School holidays are often busy times for dealers, because many working families take time off. The same is true of Bank Holidays, Easter and Christmas. But take a moment to consider what else is happening in the world – the European football championships could be the quiet period you’re looking for this summer, and booking a day off work might well be worth it.

THE stereotype of a car salesman isn’t a particularly positive one, but manufacturers and dealers invest heavily in training their staff to deliver a first-rate service. Not every dealer is perfect, but it’s an industry that’s been improving steadily over the years. Despite this, some car buyers walk into dealerships on the offensive, making demands they know the sales staff can’t meet, or taking a combative attitude. What’s often forgotten is that sales staff are people too. And, like anyone else, they’re more likely to go the extra mile if you’re polite and approachable. That’s not to say you should be a soft touch, but there’s no reason not to be friendly; it could work to your advantage.

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Thou shalt do thy homework

IT’S not just the cost of the car that you’ll need to factor in. Insurance, fuel and road tax can have a huge impact on your monthly outgoings. Younger drivers in particular should keep a close eye on insurance. That sporty number might look good on your drive, but the increase in premiums could easily equal one or more of your monthly finance repayments. Fuel is another consideration. The latest WLTP economy

standards are closer to what you’ll get in the real world, but you may see both WLTP and older NEDC figures in sales literature; be sure you’re comparing like-for-like before assuming one car is thirstier than another. Perhaps the biggest sting in the tail could come from company car tax changes, though (see Page 58). They’re extremely complex: choose your car poorly, and you could face a spiraling annual tax bill.

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10 COMMANDMENTS Thou shalt be patient

NEW, unregistered cars tend to come in two flavours: totally new ‘factory orders’, and those in ‘group stock’. Neither will have turned a wheel, and neither will have found an owner – yet. Factory orders are cars which are built specifically for buyers, with options they want, and in a colour of their choosing. Depending on how complex or unusual your request is, you may have to wait weeks or months for delivery, so it’s important to ensure that the value of your part-exchange doesn’t decrease to the point that you have to foot a shortfall. If you’re willing to compromise, you could get a car that’s almost perfect far sooner. Many dealer networks buy brand-new, unregistered cars, which take up space, and don’t get any newer sitting on forecourts. That means an unregistered car could be yours, along with an appealing discount.

Thou shalt always be prepared to walk away

NO matter how advanced negotiations are, you should always be prepared to walk away if you feel you’re not getting a good deal. It’s the nuclear option in the haggler’s handbook, because once you’ve walked out of the door, there’s no going back to that particular dealership – unless the sales executive follows you out and gives you what you want. Ultimately, as a new-car buyer, you can walk out of one local dealership and into another to buy what is, to all intents and purposes, an identical car. Sales staff know this, and won’t want to give you up. Use the threat of walking as a last resort, because it can only be done once, but it’s an action that can be particularly effective.

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Hugo Griffiths

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Super credits help make super deals

Thou must understand your finance options

IT’S easy to buy the right car badly, and nowhere is that more true than when it comes to finance. Personal Contract Plans (PCP) are a popular route to a new car, because the headline monthly repayments can be remarkably low; some ‘monthlies’ can be less than a high-end mobile phone contract. However, in order to access these deals, you may need to lay down a fairly hefty deposit. Many motorists are happy to do this because a PCP offers a good degree of flexibility should your personal circumstances change, and gives you the chance to buy the car outright at the end of the deal. PCPss work well, but what if you prefer the idea of having d-new car every few years and aren’t bothered about a brand-new ship? Personal leasing (see Page 64) is the answer. ownership? For lesss money up front, and broadly comparable monthly ments, you can park a new car on your drive every few repayments, years. But whichever option you pick, you should sit down, ut what you can afford, and work out think about whether you might o keep the car once the want to e agreement ends. finance

EVEN if the thought of emission regulations makes your eyes glaze over, know this: 2020 is the year dealers are likely to be bending over backwards to sell you an EV or a plug-in hybrid. The reason for this is that from this year, car makers need to start meeting EU rules that require them to sell model ranges that emit, on average, no more than 95g/km of carbon dioxide. To put this target into context, the average car sold in the UK in 2019 emitted 127.9g/km, so many makers have a way to go. To make 95g/km more achievable, the EU is granting manufacturers concessions, one of which is termed ‘super credits’. This means that every car sold in 2020 that emits less than 50g/km of CO2 – a target that only EVs and PHEVs can hit – counts as two low low-emission emission car sales for the point of view of recording CO2 emissions, which helps to bring fleet averages down. This is likely to result in more attractive deals and discounts for EV and PHEVs, which are there to be taken advantage of by savvy customers.

“Super credits are likely to result in more attractive deals and discounts on EVs and plug-in hybrids”

THERE are few things in life as good as taking delivery of a new car, but it’s easy to get carried away. Once you’ve worked out what you can afford, you’ll need to work hard to stick to your budget. Think about the features you need, and those you want. Is it really worth increasing your repayments by £40 a month for something you’ll rarely use? Our guide to top tech (Page 60) gives you an idea of the kit our testers find worthwhile. Watch the dealer doesn’t try to get you to increase your budget, either. One trick is to ask you what your budget is, and then increase it by a small amount. Very soon, £200 a month has swelled to £225 or £250. And it’s amazing how two or three options can add another £1,000 a year to your outlay. Be ruthless with what you agree to. Another £25 a month can easily cost you £1,000 over three years after interest.

Thou shalt get it all in writing

WHAT is it people say about a verbal contract? The only agreement that’s worth the paper it’s written on is the one that outlines the deal in its entirety. That means getting the value of your part exchange, the full finance illustration and the precise specification of the car you’re buying, including all options, in writing, in full. Don’t be pressured into signing on the dotted line there and then. Take the paperwork home, mull it over; even ask friends or family to check it over. Only once you’re happy with the deal and everything has been fully documented should you put pen to paper.

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The ultimate guide to buying your new 20-plate Hugo Griffiths

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MORE than nine out of 10 buyers take out some form of finance when buying a new car; 91.3 per cent, to be precise. With 1,052,202 private buyers purchasing a new car last year, that works out at just under a million finance packages issued, as buyers opt to spread the cost of getting behind the wheel of a brand-new car. Personal Contract Purchase (PCP) has long been the mainstay of new-car finance, with around 80 per cent of finance customers opting for this type of package, and buyers like the flexibility a PCP deal offers. Pay your deposit, make your monthly payments and then, at the end of the agreement, select one of three options: hand the car back with nothing further to pay, use any ‘equity’ generated during the contract to go towards the deposit for a new car, or buy the car outright by making the optional final payment. But over the last few years, a change has been occurring in the new-car market. PCP deals remain kings of the forecourt, but an increasing number of buyers are opting for personal contract hire (PCH) instead. PCH deals, also known as personal leasing, differ from PCP in one key area: rather than offering you the chance to buy the car or use any equity towards a new car, PCH customers must hand the car back at the end of the contract, with no option to do anything else. Furthermore, while PCP buyers can walk away early if they have paid off 50 per cent of the car’s value, PCH customers are locked into the contract, with no legal right to leave it ahead of time. Those constraints mean that PCH deals won’t be right for everyone, but they’re clearly making more sense to more people, with the proportion of buyers opting for a PCH deal nearly doubling between 2015 and 2018. And one look at the savings offered by some PCH deals (overleaf) gives a good indication of what could be driving people to make the switch. Could PCH be the right financial product to put a 20-plate car on your driveway? To get an expert insight into the new-car finance market, and help you to work this out, we spoke with the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) – the trade body that represents UK motor finance.

OWNERSHIP ON THE ROAD

OTR prices are split into chunks within PCP and PCH deals

Trend for ‘usership’ driving change ADRIAN Dally, the FLA’s head of motor finance, says that the move towards PCH is partly a reflection of changing consumer attitudes. “We’re moving to a usership culture, rather than an ownership one. So the long-term trend over 30 years has been wholesale away from hire purchase and personal loans, to usership products like PCP and PCH. “PCH would in a sense be the ultimate usership product. That’s the fundamental underlying reason why you see that increase, because a small but growing proportion of the population is fixed that is their need.”

A small but growing proportion of the population is deciding that a personal contract hire meets their need

GUARANTEED MINIMUM FUTURE VALUE Set at the start of a PCP deal, GMFV is an estimate of car’s worth at end of the deal; it determines final payment

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PCP

PCH

Personal Contract Purchase

Personal Contract Hire

INITIAL DEPOSIT MONTHLY REPAYMENTS

Depreciation is key “THE faster a car depreciates – if it’s a less popular car in the used-car market – the more the car will cost under a PCP or PCH,” Dally says. “The use of PCP and PCH as residual-value finance products makes more expensive, lowerdepreciating, higher-quality cars proportionately more accessible, and faster-depreciating ones less attractive. There are a lot more prestige cars on the road than there used to be, because these cars tend to depreciate less per month. Therefore the PCH or PCP price is closer to a ‘normal’ car than if you were paying in cash.”

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MAKE THE FINAL PAYMENTAND OWN THE CAR OUTRIGHT

FINAL OPTIONS

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PCP

Percentage of private finance customers using PCP

HP + Personal loans

Total

Year

PCH

2015

£1.07bn

6.6%

£13.14bn

81.1%

£1.99bn

£16.2bn

2016

£1.89bn

10.2%

£14.7bn

79.6%

£1.87bn

£18.46bn

2017

£2.13bn

11.2%

£15bn

79.4%

£1.75bn

£18.88bn

2018

£2.22bn

11.4%

£15.44bn

79.6%

£1.73bn

£19.38bn

Source: Finance and Leasing Association

PCP and PCP both pay off a car’s depreciation PCP and PCH work in different ways, but Dally says they’re similar products. “In a purely financial sense, PCP and PCH are very similar products – they’re both residual-value products. With PCP you’re borrowing how much that car is going to depreciate over the time you have it, and PCH is worked out in exactly the same way.” The amount that a car is predicted to be worth at the end of a PCP deal is known as its guaranteed minimum future value (GMFV). “The way a GMFV is set is critical to making this viable”, Dally says. “From a lender’s perspective, you haven’t got a business if what you lend doesn’t come back to you, so you have to set your GMFV responsibly. “The typical scenario would be a car costs £20,000. After three years, the data suggests that with your mileage it will be worth £10,000. What you don’t do [as a dealer or financier] is set your GMFV at £10,000; you set it at more likely £8,500 to give you that risk buffer for fluctuations in the car’s actual value, so from a lender’s perspective you’re safe, and from a commercial perspective that may give your customer some equity.”

But PCH deals don’t ever let you build up equity MANY customers taking out a PCP deal find they have built up what’s commonly referred to as ‘equity’ at the end of the contract. This equity is actually derived from buyers having paid more over the course of the contract than the car has actually depreciated, and is caused by GMFVs being set conservatively by dealers, as described above. While you can’t ask for any overpayments to be returned to you as cash with a PCP deal, you can use them towards the deposit on a new car – although typically only as long as you stay within the same brand. This equity is, however, a key advantage a PCP deal offers over a PCH: you don’t get a chance to make use of potential equity with a PCH deal – the price you’ve agreed is the price you will pay. So even if you have paid off more

than the car has depreciated over the contract, that money is gone – no ifs, no buts. Dally concedes “some may well conclude” that PCP offers a better deal because of this.

PCH is more limiting, so make sure it’s right for you “WITH PCH, there is just one option,” Dally says. “You have the car for the fixed period and you must give it back. If you take a PCH, you’ve got to be able to say: ‘I’m going to take this car for three years, I am definitely, 100 per cent certain that I’m going to give it back at the end, and I know that I can afford the payments’. If you’re a customer like that, PCH is the right product for you. At the moment, you’re not in the majority with that attitude. “There are also differences in consumer protections with PCP. You have a right to terminate early – the 50 per cent rule – so if you’ve paid half of what’s owned, you can simply hand the car back. You don’t get that with PCH.”

What about bank loans and hire purchase? ONE look at the table above shows that personal bank loans, and hire purchase agreements – where your monthly payments pay off the car fully, with no optional final payment to make at the end – represent a small and diminishing section of the new-car finance landscape. But a meaningful number of people still choose these routes. “There is still a proportion of the population who want to own the car, who want legal title,” Dally says. “And if that’s important to you, you may well take out an unsecured loan so you have legal title to the car. But for the majority of people, the concept of ‘my car’ doesn’t entail this. “If someone can afford half the car already, for example, a bank loan may be suitable,” Dally says. “But it has become a less popular product over the past 30 years. Essentially, if you go for a secured lending product like HP or PCP, it comes with a lot more consumer protections. There’s lower risk with a secured product, so generally speaking, the lender will be able to offer you a lower rate, because the security of the car means there’s lower risk.”

If you take a PCH you’ve got to be able to say: ‘I’m going to take this car for three years, I am definitely, 100 per cent certain that I’m going to give it back at the end, and I know that I can afford the payments.’ ADRIAN DALLY FLA’s head of motor finance

NUMBER CRUNCH

Audi A3 Sportback 30 TFSI S line OTR price: £26,030 PCH Period: 36 months, 10,000 miles per year Initial payment: £301.45 Monthly payments: £301.45 Total cost over contract: £10,852.20

PCP

Period: 36 months, 10,000 miles per year Deposit: £301.45 Deposit contribution: £4,000 Monthly payments: £371.34 Optional final payment: £11,999.95 Total cost over contract (returning car): £13,298.35

PCH SAVING OVER PCP

£2,446.15

*Total cost calculations exclude final PCP payment for comparative purposes

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PLANNING FINANCES ACCESSIBLE A PCP allows a buyer to get behind the wheel of a desirable car, but PCH offers even greater value if you’re not interested in owning the car

HING: PCH DEALS CAN OFFER BIG SAVINGS

Vauxhall Grandland X SRi Nav OTR price: £27,545

BMW 320i M Sport OTR price: £35,465

VW T-Cross 1.0 TSI 115 SE OTR price: £19,770

PCH

Period: 48 months, 8,000 miles per year Initial payment: £299 Monthly payments: £299 Total cost over contract: £14,352

Period: 48 months, 10,000 miles per year Initial payment: £4,409 Monthly payments: £399 Total cost over contract: £23,162

Period: 36 months, 10,000 miles per year Initial payment: £627 Monthly payments: £209 Total cost over contract: £7,942

PCP

PCH SAVING OVER PCP

Period: 48 months, 8,000 miles per year Deposit: £299 Deposit contribution: £5,000 Monthly payments: £335.29 Optional final payment: £9,569 Total cost over contract (returning car): £16,057.63

£1,705.63

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Period: 48 months, 10,000 miles Deposit: £4,409 Deposit contribution: £2,721.37 Monthly payments: £399 Optional final payment: £13,643.90 Total cost over contract (returning car): £23,162

£0

Period: 36 months, 10,000 miles Deposit: £627 Deposit contribution: £750 Monthly payments: £336.83 Optional final payment: £8,789.40 Total cost over contract (returning car): £12,416.05

£4,474.05

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OUR 50 BEST BUYS 2020 Best City Cars We name our favourite models across 16 classes, ranging from city cars to luxury limos CHOICES Wide range of models includes everything from pure-electric to a GTI

Volkswagen up! OUR PICK up! Beats (£13,490) 90))

AWARD-WINNER IT’S been on sale for almost a decade, but the Volkswagen up! remains the top allround city car on sale in Britain, albeit leading what has become a shrunken pack. The perfect blend of a grown up, mature and refined driving experience with a fun nature has kept the up! on top, and it’s more sophisticated than its size would have you believe. This is a slow-moving class, so most rivals, such as the Toyota Aygo, are also based on older platforms. The result is that the up! was the best at launch, and that’s still the case now. For 2020 there’s no sub-£10,000 option and no 74bhp 1.0-litre car either, but we’re still sure that this is the most convincing city car around. It’s a high-quality, quirky, upmarket vehicle for not much money. True, infotainment and connectivity aren’t the up!’s strongest points, but there’s a fun GTI model and an allelectric version, too, so it’s a broad line-up.

FOR Volkswagen quality fed into a very small package. The up! feels more than the sum of its parts and is excellent to drive, too

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Engine line line-up up has shrunk for now;

the 74bhp 1.0-litre engine is no longer available, leaving 59bhp, 113bhp and electric options only

NEWCOMER

CLASS INSIGHT

Skoda Citigo-e iv OUR PICK SEL (£19,315)

UNLIKE the up! (above), the Skoda Citigo range is all-electric for 2020. However, the Citigo-e iv holds one distinct advantage over its VW equivalent: it’s available for less. The electric Citigo can do 170 miles on a single charge, and feasibly manage longer trips. However, the £16,995 version is basic, and you won’t want to be caught out on the road with a flat battery, given the total absence of any fast-charging compatibility. For that, you’ll need to fork out £19,315.

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FOR One of the

cheapest new EVs, and one of the most charming

AGAINST Tiny

petrol alternatives will be cheaper to buy, and won’t cost a lot more to run

THESE are some of the smallest and cheapest new cars in Britain, but it’s a segment that’s shrinking. With more cars bought on finance, monthly payments make it much easier to get into a larger model, and makers are struggling to make money on city cars. Still, if a tiny set of wheels is all you need, then look no further. Sean Carson Chief reviewer

Hyundai i10

OUR PICK 1.2 SE Connect (£13,995) A BRAND-new city car is a rare thing these days, given the very smallest cars now have the longest shelf lives. However Hyundai has a newcomer for 2020: the latest i10. Our first taste has hinted that this will be a serious challenger to the up! when it arrives in the UK later this year, owing to its big-car feel and technology inside, grownup driving manners and strong levels of equipment. We could be looking at a new class-leader. If the monthly price is right.

FOR Spacious rear

bench and impressive tech make i10 feel like a big car

AGAINST

Range-topping Premium model feels a little costly for this class

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BEST BUYS 2020

Best Superminis Renault Clio

CHAMPION New Clio is good to drive and classy, but its good value and kit set it apart

OUR PICK TCe Iconic (£16,495)

CURRENTFAVOURITE E SHOOTING to the top of what is arguably the most competitive sector of the market in Britain is no mean feat. But that’s what the fifth-generation Renault Clio has done, making it without doubt one of the best new cars in 2020, and one you’ll see plenty of this year. While it looks barely any different from its predecessor, it’s a total revolution under the skin and in the cabin. Renault has set out to make a car that rivals the Ford Fiesta for fun and the Volkswagen Polo for quality, with a price tag that undercuts both of those longrunning rivals. And it has succeeded. Although the Renault isn’t the most practical supermini out there, it is one of the best to drive, and the cabin impresses with its level of perceived quality, sharp design and improved infotainment. The slightly underwhelming engines are perhaps the only flaw in what is a strong package; rivals are gutsier and faster to get up to motorway speeds. The car is extremely well equipped, and the monthly PCP deals being offered are tantalising too. If you’re in the market for a supermini this year, it’s essential you investigate the new Clio.

FOR Immense quality for a supermini,

combined with a strong level of standard equipment and an affordable price tag

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Petrol engines are a little lifeless;

1.0-litre, 99bhp option has ﬁve-speed manual gearbox; rear seats are a little bit tight for the class

NEWCOMER

CLASS

L INSIGHT

Peugeot e-208 OUR PICK Allure (£26,250)

THE new Peugeot 208 hasn’t quite been the revelation we were looking for, but the allelectric version stacks up as a convincing, small, high-quality electric car in which you could commute daily and make longer journeys. With 211 miles on a single charge, courtesy of a 50kWh battery pack, the e-208 is a strong option for an electric car of this size, even if it doesn’t have the longest range. You’ll get that from the Renault Zoe, but the dearer Peugeot feels more upmarket.

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FOR Stylish looks, decent range and compliant with 100kW charging

AGAINST Not

the best range in class, while ride quality and comfort could be better

FOUR of the top 10 best-selling models in Britain last year were superminis so these are still hugely popular cars, despite all the noise you’ve heard about small SUVs over the last few years. The Ford Fiesta remains the UK’s favourite new car, but the current model is no longer the freshest thing out there. A facelift is due next year. James Brodie

Deputy news and reviews editor

Vauxhall Corsa

OUR PICK SRi 1.2 Turbo (£18,700) THE newest entrant into the small-hatchback market is the latest iteration of one of the UK’s favourites. The Vauxhall Corsa shares its underpinnings with the Peugeot 208 (left), and an electric model is due, too. Importantly, though, the conventional petrol models are a big step up over what has gone before, not only in terms of quality but also from behind the wheel. The new Corsa is miles better to drive than before, but it’s an expensive option in the class.

FOR Brilliant petrol engines and decent body control make it good to drive AGAINST Confusing line-up and disappointing ﬁnance offers mean it’s not great value

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Best Family hatchbacks Skoda Scala

SOLID Five-door hatchback isn’t as big as an Octavia, but it’s still packed with practical features

OUR PICK 1.0 TSI 115 SE (£19,525)

AWARDWINNER NNER IT’S taken a while for Skoda to give us a proper family hatchback ack to take on the Ford Focus and Volkswagen n Golf, but the Scala has been worth the wait. It’s t’s a high-quality car for not a huge amount of money, and it’s a more conventional shape than the oversized Octavia hatch that we’ve grown rown accustomed to. It’s based on the same platform as the VW Polo and SEAT Ibiza – two cars from the class below the Scala – yet it’s one of the most spacious and practical family mily hatchbacks, with a large boot and plenty ty of cabin space. It’s not the most exciting g car to drive, but the refined engines are all proven units, and if you want an automatic gearbox, earbox, the DSG transmission is a known entity. ntity. Open a brochure and you’ll ou’ll notice that the Scala range isn’t enormous, s, with only three trims to choose from. Entry-grade y-grade S cars come with an adequate amount of kit for the money, but mid-range SE models represent the best value, and you won’t break k the bank to get into a range-topping SE L model. l. But don’t be fooled into thinking it’s fully loaded; ed; some items, such as heated seats, are optional regardless.

FOR The Scala is comfortable and practical family motoring for not much money. It’s well made and the engines are reﬁned

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Slim line-up and the range-topper

is still missing kit, so the price is a little less appealing. The looks prioritise function over form

NEWCOMER

CLASS INSIGHT

Toyota Prius

OUR PICK 1.8 VVT-i Active (£24,245) TOYOTA’S Prius is an unconventionallooking thing, but its efficiency means that it remains undisputed as one of the most economical family hatchbacks on sale. It’s one of the best to live with, too. The car was built as a hybrid from the ground up, so there’s no compromise on interior space and practicality, and it’s even quite good to drive. Toyota offers hybrid, plug-in and all-wheel-drive versions, and the car is a genuine alternative to a Focus or Golf.

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FOR Low running costs, decent to drive and plenty of practicality

AGAINST

Divisive styling, poor infotainment, more expensive than rivals

FAMILY hatchbacks have fallen out of favour with buyers and makers, thanks to the SUV gold rush, but there are still many great choices out there. If you prioritise control and driving dynamics over a commanding seating position, these remain the best family cars on offer. They’re just as practical as their crossover rivals, too. James Brodie

Deputy news and reviews editor

VW Golf

OUR PICK Golf Life 1.5 TSI 130 (£23,875) THE eighth-generation version of VW’s iconic hatchback is due on UK roads very soon and order books are open now. The platform and design of the new car are an evolution of what’s gone before, but the interior of the Mk8 Golf has been completely overhauled; it’s a far more digital environment than the Mk7’s. Mildhybrid technology now features extensively too, improving fuel economy across a broad spectrum of the car’s engine line-up.

FOR As good to

drive as ever, more technologically advanced

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Best Large family cars Vauxhall Insignia Grand Sport

SPACIOUS Long wheelbase contributes to excellent interior space in this five-seat hatchback

OUR P PICK 1.6 ecoTEC Design Nav (£21,245)

A AWARDWINNER AW W WA THE Ins Insignia makes a compelling choice for anyo anyone who’s after practical family transport. It doesn’t have the trendy looks of an SUV, but it shares the same load-lugging capability – and beats high-riding rivals on ride comfort comfort, handling and refinement. With a wh wheelbase that’s four inches longer that its pred predecessor’s, the Insignia is among the best in cclass for space, with plenty of rearseat legroom and a boot that can stow 1,450 litres with th the back seats folded down. Material q quality is decent, while fit and finish are good eno enough to give even the Skoda Superb a run for its money. The Insignia has lots of kit, too: buyers g get 17-inch alloys, air-con and a seven-inch infotainment i set-up as standard, while Vauxh Vauxhall’s eight-inch Intellilink system is an optiona optional extra on mid-range models. Buyers ha have a reasonable choice of petrol and diesel e engines, although the entry-level 138bhp 1.5 1.5-litre petrol unit feels a little underpowered. A 207bhp twin-turbo 2.0-litre underpower diesel engin engine currently sits at the top of the range, altho although a petrol 227bhp 2.0-litre GSi flagship is d due to arrive later this year.

FOR Spacious, good to drive and economical, the Insignia Grand Sport is a strong contender for those who don’t want an SUV

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Entry-level petrol engine feels

underpowered, depreciation hits hard, bewildering array of trim levels, image could be sharper

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VW Passat GTE

OUR PICK GTE Advance (£39,530) THE Passat GTE plug-in offers an impressive blend of performance, refinement and efficiency without relying on a diesel engine. VW claims it will return up to 217mpg and has an all-electric range of 34 miles thanks to its turbocharged 1.4-litre fourcylinder petrol engine, 9.9kWh battery pack and electric motor. Total output is rated at 215bhp and 400Nm of torque, and while the GTE isn’t exactly sporty, it will cover the 0-62mph sprint in a respectable 7.4 seconds.

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FOR Good to drive, economical to run, brings favourable tax rates

AGAINST Pricey;

battery shrinks boot and adds weight; diesel may offer similar economy

THE large family car market has evolved over the past decade or so. Buyers are shunning traditional saloons and hatchbacks, flocking instead to premium cars and SUVs. That means there are only a few options for those looking for a practical, spacious family runabout – but the remaining cars on the market are arguably the best. Luke Wilkinson Staff writer

Skoda Octavia

OUR PICK TBC (From £20,000 est.) THE Skoda Octavia has arguably come to define the Czech brand since its acquisition by the Volkswagen Group in 1991, so the upcoming Mk4 model is an important car. It’s due in showrooms around the middle of the year, and our drive of a prototype indicates that the omens are good. Like the Mk8 Golf (left), the Octavia will be based on VW’s revised MQB platform, offering all the German brand’s know-how abut engines and driver-assistance tech.

FOR Set to improve reﬁnement, comfort and practicality even further

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Prices likely to increase over the outgoing model, conservative styling

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Best Estate cars Skoda Octavia

LEADER No compact estate car can match the Octavia for practicality and user-friendly features

OUR PICK 2.0 TDI 150PS SE L (£25,880)

AWARDWINNER R THE third-generation Skoda Octavia tavia Estate is a brilliantly packaged riff on the he outgoing Volkswagen Golf platform, offering superior practicality, better value for money and more standard kit. It’s about to be replaced ed by a new model, so Skoda may be keen to shift old stock, so bear this in mind when haggling. ggling. Buyers have the choice of a wide range of petrol and diesel engines ranging between etween 1.0 and 2.0 litres in capacity, as well as front- or four-wheel drive and manual or DSG gearboxes. Our favourite model is the FWD 148bhp bhp 2.0-litre diesel, thanks to its effortless pulling power and impressive 65.7mpg official (NEDC) economy. The Estate’s interior is cleverly packaged, ckaged, durable and offers more rear legroom m than a car of this size arguably has any right to,, as well as a range of handy storage bins, USB ports and cup-holders. And, crucially, the Octavia via Estate’s boot is enormous, with a 610-litre capacity apacity with the rear seats up, or 1,740 litress with them down. Pick the right engine and you’ll ’ll get a 2,000kg towing capacity, too. If all this his sounds far too sensible, you can also have a hot vRS model, with either petrol or diesel power.

FOR Acres of space, excellent value and a vast array of powertrain options make the Octavia hard to beat. It’s decent to drive, too

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Both the design and image may be too conservative for some; interior somewhat workmanlike, with a few cheap plastics

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Skoda Superb Estate OUR PICK 1.4 TSI iV SEL (£36,035) IF you need something larger and more taxefficient than the Octavia Estate, its Superb sibling has been recently facelifted and is now available with plug-in power. A turbocharged 1.4-litre petrol engine combines with an electric motor and a 13kWh battery for 215bhp, 188mpg, 37g/km CO2 emissions and an all-electric range of up to 34 miles. For company car drivers, those emissions and that range lead to a Benefitin-Kind rate of as little as 10 per cent.

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FOR Sprightly

performance, decent EV range and good build quality

AGAINST Tax

costs must be balanced against price; Octavia is nearly as big inside

THE saloon market has slowed of late, but estates have had something of a renaissance, because buyers demand fiveseat, big-boot practicality, coupled with decent driving dynamics. Makers are also injecting more style into estates than ever, even if some tapering rooflines come at the expense of practicality. Luke Wilkinson Staff writer

BMW 330e Touring

OUR PICK 330e M Sport (£42,000 – Est) BMW will introduce a Touring version of its plug-in 3 Series later this year. Thanks to a turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol engine, a 12kWh battery pack and a 67bhp electric motor, power is rated at 249bhp and the EV range at 37 miles, while emissions are comparable to the Superb’s. The driving experience is likely to impress, but the batteries rob the boot of 105 litres of space, making its 375-litre size seem small in comparison to the two Skodas here.

FOR Handling,

performance, cabin and infotainment all set to impress

AGAINST It

doesn’t have the biggest boot if you want an estate that carries everything

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Best Hot hatches Honda Civic Type R

ROCKET Standard-fit adaptive dampers turn 316bhp Type R into a great all-rounder

OUR PICK Civic OU vic Type R GT (£33,870)

A AWARDWINNER AW NNER T Honda Civic Type THE e R has been on sale for quite a while, and fo d there’s a facelifted version on the way soon. But the current model versio is so g good that no newcomers mers have managed to top it in the time it’s been een available. It fe features a 316bhp 2.0-litre .0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol motor, four-cy r, a superb engine with b bags of character that at makes up for its slightly dull sound. It feelss more powerful than slightl those figures suggest, with th a huge surge of performance even from low perfor ow revs. The chassis is fluent and nd comfortable in its softest damping setting, meaning the Type R softes is easy to live with. But put ut it in a stiffer mode, such a as the track-orientated ted R+, and it’s among the mo most focused and exciting citing cars on the road. Virtually every aspect of the Honda’s driving Virt experience is highly polished. experi hed. For example, the gearshift is one of the best gearsh st in any car on sale, there’s incredible grip and d composure, while the ste steering is weighted very nicely. The Civic’s big 420-litre e boot and relatively roomy rear seats mean that at there’s plenty of practicality prac built in, and d even the punchy engine won’t cost too much to run.

FOR Unmatched balance of agility

and comfort in a hot hatch, incredibly powerful engine, plenty of practicality

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Infotainment is ﬁddly to use

and well behind the competition; one of the more controversially styled cars out there

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Volkswagen Golf GTE OUR PICK GTE Advance (£33,925) AN eco hot hatch is a contradiction in terms, which might explain why the plug-in Golf GTE is a rarity. With a 1.4-litre petrol engine and an electric motor (good for an EV range of around 29 miles), it isn’t a true hot hatch, but with just over 200bhp and a 0-62mph time of 7.6 seconds, it’s brisk enough to be fun. The GTE is good, if not exciting, to drive, and it remains comfortable and composed even on rough roads. Add in practicality and economy, and it makes a lot of sense.

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FOR Plug-in

powertrain can bring low running costs; good practicality

AGAINST It’s a

warm rather than a hot hatch; upcoming Golf Mk8 means stock-only GTEs

BRITAIN loves hot hatches. The UK is one of the world’s biggest markets for them, with buyers rating their range of abilities. Starting with a family car, makers add a more powerful engine and tweak the chassis to add excitement and performance, resulting in a practical car that, in some cases, is just as good to drive as a sports car. Sam Naylor

Senior reviewer

Toyota GR Yaris OUR PICK GR Yaris (£TBC) FOR performance car fans, Toyota’s GR Yaris might be the most exciting model of 2020. It may not seem so initially; the outgoing Yaris never set the world on fire, after all. Yet this new hot version is radical. It’s been built to homologate Toyota’s next rally car, so it’s stuffed with tech, including a unique 257bhp 1.6-litre three-cylinder petrol engine, a switchable four-wheel-drive system and bespoke suspension. We can’t wait to get behind the wheel of this rally-bred hatch.

FOR Engineering looks incredibly promising, likely to be exclusive

AGAINST May

be ambitiously priced; three-door format will limit practicality

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Best Compact Executive an BMW 3 Series

MULTI-TASKING Range of engines means there’s a car to suit every buyer, from low CO2 to high performance

OUR PICK CK K 320d Sport (£35,135)

AWARDWINNER RDWINNER THE BMW W 3 Series took our compact executive e crown at last year’s New Car Awards, and itt remains our top pick. There’s loads ads of choice when it comes to powertrains. If you cover plenty of miles then the 320d is still a brilliant option, offering strong efficiency ency (the 320d on our test fleet averaged around ound 55mpg), performance and refinement, as well as plenty of practicality thanks to itss roomy interior and 480-litre boot. If you don’t n’t do that much distance – or are a company car driver – then the 330e plug-in is one of the e best PHEVs, and with just 37g/km CO2 it’ll cut higher-rate taxpayers’ Benefit-inKind bills by around £2,000 a year over a 320d. But regardless ardless of powertrain, the 3 Series’ interior stillll appeals strongly, mainly thanks to its technology. logy. The Live Cockpit Professional set-up boasts asts a 10.25-inch touchscreen that can also be controlled by the iDrive wheel – one of the e slickest around – and a 12.3-inch digital dash. sh. The graphics are sharp, and the interface is super-quick to respond, while the BMW’s combination ombination of ride comfort, refinement and dynamic ability bility rounds the package off.

FOR A stalwart of this class, the 3 Series’ blend

of tech, reﬁnement, ride comfort, performance and practicality means it’s a great all-rounder

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AGAINST Still on the pricier side, lacks Android Auto smartphone connectivity, options are expensive, steering is slightly lifeless

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Tesla Model 3

OUR PICK Standard Range Plus (£38,500) OUR current Car of the Year is a brilliant bet for ultimate efficiency, and the Model 3 comes in three forms: Standard Range Plus and the AWD Long Range and Performance versions. The Standard is our pick. Its claimed 254mile range and 5.3-second 0-60mph time offer more than enough for most drivers’ needs, and it outpaces comparable petrol or diesel cars. Plus, EVs attract no company car tax from April this year, so if you’re a business user it’ll cut your outgoings massively.

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FOR Strong

range and relative affordability plus plenty of tech

AGAINST Full

EV motoring may still not work for high-mileage business users

THE compact exec class has changed beyond recognition compared with only a few years ago. There are more plug-in hybrid models, while EV tech has become so popular that Tesla’s Model 3 is now one of the best in the business. Look to cars like this as the template for the future of this particular area of the market. Sean Carson Chief reviewer

Alfa Romeo Giulia

OUR PICK 2.2 JTDM 190 Speciale (£38,000 Est) ALFA got so much right first time with the Giulia that this facelifted model – on sale in March – brings only minor tweaks. A better built and finished centre console and gearlever are among the upgrades, as are the infotainment system (which becomes touch-operated) and a set of standard digital dashboard dials. This is one of the bestdriving cars in this or any mainstream class, so these improvements can be considered as the icing on an already-impressive cake.

FOR Sharp to

drive, and now with the tech to keep up with its competition

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Choosing one over a 3 Series isn’t an easy decision; bordering on the pricey

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d Executive cars BMW 5 Series

GROWING It may be bigger and roomier than the last model, but the latest 7 Series is also lighter

OUR PICK K 520 520d 0d SE S (£39,170)

A AWARDWINNER AW W WARDWIN NNE ER BMW’S mid-sized execut executive tive saloon s has long been one of the bes best st allall-round -round cars money can buy, with a fine ba balance alancce of comfort, handling, performance and pr practicality ractticality – and this latest model is no excepti exception. ion.. It’s based on the same plat platform tforrm as the larger 7 Series, which gives it a far ro roomier oom mier cabin than the old car. Plus, thanks to BM BMW’s MW W’s extensive use of aluminium, it’s around 100kg 10 00kg lighter. There’s a wide range of eng engines in nes available, although the excellence of the diesels d leaves the petrol units firmly in the shade. sh ha ade. The line-up starts with the 181bhp 2.0-litre e 520i petrol before moving through a seriess of four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines, topp topping ping out with p the petrol 540i and the diesel 530d – both sixcylinder models. Company car buyers might also consider the 530e plug-in hybrid and its ultra-low CO2 emissions, while well heeled power addicts will be drawn to the 592bhp M5. Whichever you opt for, the 5 Series drives beautifully. Its steering has a n natural ural weight, and its suspension is equally well judged, udged, with lots of grip without being uncomf uncomfortable, able, although we suggest adding BMW’s ad adaptive ptive dampers.

FOR Sharp driving dynamics mixed with

impressive levels of reﬁnement, top interior build quality and excellent ll t iinfotainment

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AGAINST Conservative looks; most models cost

over £40,000 (meaning deare dearer road d tax), t ) and that’s before you get to the pricey and extensive options

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Mercedes E 300 de OUR PICK E300 de (£46,985) THE plug-in hybrid E 300 de is another Auto Express favourite. It has similar comfort and refinement to a regular E-Class, yet can return a claimed 166mpg thanks to its 302bhp diesel-electric drivetrain. The PHEV’s battery steals 100 litres from the boot capacity, and the drivetrain’s extra weight means the ride isn’t quite as good as a standard E-Class’s, but this car was never designed for attacking corners – a fact that the E 300 de only emphasises.

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FOR Powerful,

effortlessly comfortable, well equipped interior

AGAINST Small

boot, optimistic economy ﬁgures, electric-only mode is dim-witted

EXECUTIVE saloons may not sell like they used to, but they still act as flagcarriers for premium manufacturers, often getting the latest tech first; just witness how early plug-in powertrains arrived in this class. An SUV will be more practical, sure, but for handling and mile-munching refinement, little gets close to the exec saloon. Luke Wilkinson Staff writer

Jaguar XF

OUR PICK TBC (From £36,000 Est) JAGUAR will soon release an updated version of the XF, which promises to remedy the shortcomings of the current car without compromising its impressive handling. Exterior revisions will be subtle, but expect slimmer headlamps and a reworked grille. The most significant changes will be in the cabin, with buyers getting JLR’s latest Touch Pro Duo infotainment system and digital instrument binnacle, although the engine range should be largely unchanged.

FOR Great handling and styling, and this year’s update should improve quality

AGAINST Rivals are more reﬁned, facelift needs to improve outgoing XF’s emissions

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Best Small SUVs Skoda Kamiq

CHUNKY The Kamiq mixes SUV looks with the practicality and eco credentials of the Scala hatch

OUR PICK 1.0 TSI 115 SE (£19,695)

CLASS LEADER EADER THE smallest SUV UV in Skoda’s range is the best-value small SUV to sit on the Volkswagen Group’ss MQB A0 platform, as shared by the VW T-Cross Cross and SEAT Arona. Where the Kamiq stands out is with its practicality: there’s enough space inside to trouble family hatchbacks tchbacks from the class above, while Skoda’s ’s strong results in our Driver Power surveyy should equate to a crossover that’s veryy easy to live with. There’s the usuall choice of 1.0 and 1.5-litre petrol engines and a 1.6-litre diesel, all of which are offered with six-speed manual or seven-speed DSG automatic gearboxes. We’re fond of the 1.0 TSI model with 113bhp – it’s a great all-rounder with a perfectly judged balance between performance and efficiency. Standard equipment ment impresses too; every model has LED headlights adlights and a touchscreen infotainment system, m, as well as autonomous emergency braking g and lane assistance. If you need a small mall SUV that can function happily as a practical family car, the Kamiq takes some beating. It’s not the most exciting car, but it certainly makes a great deal of sense.

FOR W Wellll b built ilt small mall SUV with generous levels of standard equipment and vast amounts of space, particularly in the rear seats

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AGAINST Drivers who spend a lot of time on the motorway may want to upgrade from th the 94bhp 1.0-litre petrol engine; car is short on excitement

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Peugeot e-2008 OUR PICK Allure (£30,300) PEUGEOT’S all-new 2008 was designed to go electric from the outset, and in e-2008 form it uses a 134bhp electric motor and a 50kWh battery to great effect, propelling the small SUV without any lag or hesitation. A claimed 199-mile range isn’t classleading but should be fine for most, while support for 100kW charging means you can charge from 10-80 per cent in around half an hour. Factor in sharp styling, and this is a desirable small electric SUV.

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FOR Stunning

interior design, decent value for money, quick

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Dashboard layout, rivals EVs offer greater range

TEN years ago this was a sparsely populated class, with the Nissan Juke competing alongside workhorses such as the Suzuki Jimny. There has since been an explosion in small SUVs, which has been driven mainly by customer demand, but also by the fact that they tend to be more profitable to build than an equivalent supermini. Sean Carson Chief reviewer

Ford Puma

OUR PICK EcoBoost 125 ST-Line (£21,495) HOTLY anticipated and sporting the same name as an iconic nineties coupé, the Puma is Ford’s newest entrant to the small-SUV class. The car may have arrived late to the party, but Ford has tailored it perfectly – it’s comfortable and practical, boasts a strong range of engines and looks set to be one of the best driver’s cars in the class. The unique ‘Megabox’ – an 80-litre recess in the boot floor – even has a drain plug, allowing it to be hosed out.

FOR A small SUV

that stands out from the crowd and offers an engaging drive

AGAINST Looks may not be to all tastes; hard interior plastics

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Best Mid-sized SUVs Skoda Karoq

PRACTICAL Features such as a sliding rear bench boost the Karoq’s versatility

OUR PICK 1.5 TSI 150 50 SE (£24,185)

AWARDWINNER R THE Karoq had big boots to fill when it replaced the Yeti in 2017, but itt filled them admirably; it’s larger, more practicall and just as good to drive as the Yeti, so still sits at the top of the medium family SUV class,, despite having plenty of serious competition. n. True, it’s not the most exciting car ar to look at, but there’s a lot to like about the Karoq aroq under its sensibly styled bodywork. There’s ’s plenty of room for passengers and their luggage, age, and you can vary the balance between the two with the optional VarioFlex sliding rear seats. There’s also a good level of standard ndard equipment; even the basic SE models dels come with dual-zone climate control, an eight-inch infotainment system and that all-important mportant Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity. onnectivity. A tried-and-tested range of petrol rol and diesel engines is offered, and the sweet spot in the range is the 1.5 TSI in 148bhp form. rm. However, the torquier, more frugal diesels are a better bet if you cover big distances. Four-wheel ur-wheel drive is offered, too, but few customerss really need it; the Karoq is more than sure-footed ooted enough in standard front-wheel-drive form. m.

FOR Practical, sensible, well built and well

equipped with a good range of engines, the Karoq is everything a Skoda ought to be

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AGAINST While the Karoq does almost

everything well, it lacks excitement on the road, and the design is wholeheartedly conservative

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Audi Q5 TFSI e

OUR PICK 50 TFSI e S Line (£49,020) PICKING an eco-focused SUV needn’t mean giving up on performance, as this hybrid Q5 proves, especially if you opt for the 362bhp 55 version over the (more than adequate) 50. In both, a 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine and a punchy electric motor provide drive, with the battery good for a real-world range of around 20 miles. With the promise of silent EV urban commuting and serious performance in reserve for longer drives, the Q5 PHEV offers the best of both worlds.

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FOR Quick and

fast, the Q5 e is a premium family SUV for all seasons

AGAINST

Slightly dull to drive; as with all PHEVs, fail to plug it in and it’ll use plenty of fuel

THE continued rise of the SUV has been spearheaded by mid-sized models, which have stolen sales from family hatchbacks and saloons, and are now the default choice for those looking for family transport. As these picks show, the class certainly isn’t short of variety; your 20-plate midsize SUV can be as indulgent or as sensible as you like. James Howe

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Ford Mustang Mach-E OUR PICK AWD (£46,570)

IT sports a familiar name, but the Ford Mustang Mach-E has little to do with the famous muscle car; instead, it represents Ford’s first foray into large all-electric SUVs. It’s longer than a Jaguar I-Pace, at 4.7 metres, and has a choice of powertrains: a basic 75kWh, 255bhp version with a 280mile range, and a 99kWh, 282bhp car with a claimed 370-mile range. Thanks to its bold looks, performance and a Tesla-esque cabin, the Mach-E could be a winner for Ford.

FOR All-wheel-

drive model offers a 380-mile range, futuristic interior

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Deliveries don’t begin until late 2020; can it live up to Mustang name?

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Best Large SUVs SEAT Tarraco

VERSATILE Seven-seat Tarraco narrowly edges ahead of the similar Skoda Kodiaq for kit and style

OUR PICK 2.0 0 TDI 150 Xcellence (£32,690)

AWARDWINNER NNER THERE’S a reason whyy Volkswagen Group SUVs often rise to the top of their respective classes: most are re built on VW’s much-used yet excellent MQB QB platform, which provides a fantastic balance ce of interior space, ride quality, safety and a decent ecent drive. SEAT is traditionally pitched hed as the sportiest brand in the VW stable, and d while the Tarraco isn’t exactly thrilling to drive, ve, it’s great as far as large family SUVs go. Closely osely related to the Skoda Kodiaq, the Tarraco gets a similarly huge cabin and comparable levels els of comfort. In addition, a lower ride height ht and sportier set-up mean it has slightly sharper er responses. Besides this, there’s nott much to separate the Tarraco from its Kodiaq counterpart. The SEAT is marginally more expensive, pensive, but it’s worth plumping for, thankss to its longer equipment list and a slightly tly sharper driving experience. We think it looks ks a little better too – although this is a subjective tive call, naturally. If it’s outright style you’re re after after, the sleek Peugeot 5008 offers even more standard kit on a like-for-like basis, but it can’t match the Tarraco’s breadth of abilities.

FOR Sharp to drive and look at, the Tarraco is

something of a sweet spot in VW Group’s large SUV range; top-notch infotainment, too

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Rearmost seats are best left for

children; dashboard design lacks the ﬂair found in some rivals; petrol models relatively thirsty

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Tesla Model X

OUR PICK Long Range (£82,700) THE largest Tesla is also the most idiosyncratic: ‘falcon-wing’ rear doors, MPV-like styling and a massive footprint on the road mean the Model X is an electric car for drivers who want to be noticed. It’s also a great choice for those who need as much interior space as possible – seven seats and a big boot make it the most practical EV on the market. The added appeal of huge performance and advanced infotainment only help sweeten the deal.

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FOR Excellent tech, bags of space and one of the best EV ranges around

AGAINST

Marmite looks, car’s size will be an issue for less conﬁdent drivers

SMALLER SUVs have encroached on hatchback and saloon territory, but large SUVs have pretty much killed off MPVs. Bigger families are now likely to be found in high-riding sevenseaters, so it follows that nearly all manufacturers offer one. A requirement for space doesn’t preclude exciting cars, however, as our choices show. Sean Carson Chief reviewer

Land Rover Discovery OUR PICK TBC (£55,000 Est) RECENTLY spotted testing with only a light disguise (above), the facelifted Land Rover Discovery will bring with it much-needed electrified powertrains. A plug-in version is still a while off, but mild-hybrids are certain. It’s not yet clear what form these will take, but 2.0-litre mildhybrid petrol and diesel cars are most likely. As the all-new Defender looms large, the revised Discovery will need to be at the top of its game; we think it’ll be worth the wait.

FOR Can

comfortably seat seven adults, excellent off road

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Infotainment off the pace; will the redesign address styling criticisms?

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Best Luxury cars Mercedes S-Class

OPULENT It has discreet looks, but the S-Class can match more expensive rivals for luxury, tech and quality

OUR PICK 350 d L Grand Edition (£83,585)

AWARDWINNER THE S-Class has been our top luxury pick for years, and if you’re after a brand-new high-end model, our recommendation remains the same. Updates throughout the car’s life have kept it competitive, with mild and plug-in hybrid options added for economy’s sake, plus the latest tech and even more chassis advances to ensure it’s as comfortable and as cosseting as a luxury car should be. We’d opt for the 282bhp 3.0-litre six-cylinder diesel S 350 d in long-wheelbase ‘L’ form as our pick. This comes only in Grand Edition spec after a range overhaul last year, but it gets everything you’d want: air suspension for a fantastically smooth ride, Merc’s COMAND Online infotainment system, heated leather seats all round, the latest smartphone integration and safety tech, wireless charging and a Burmester stereo. Thanks to business-class-style reclining rear seats with massage functionality, TVs, in-car Internet and much more on the options list turning the S-Class into a mobile office for busy business people, Mercedes’ flagship is the ultimate in luxury.

FOR Still the ultimate luxury ﬂagship. Its ride and reﬁnement are supreme, and not many cars can match it. The tech is superb too

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Watch the options, because the price can quickly rise well into six ﬁgures, even for an entry-level diesel; depreciation is also an issue

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BMW 7 Series

OUR PICK 745Le xDrive (£83,690) THE enormous grille that characterises the facelifted 7 Series won’t be to all tastes, but the 745Le plug-in hybrid will appeal if you’re looking for an eco-focused limo. This electrified Seven uses a 3.0-litre petrol straight six in place of the 2.0-litre in its predecessor and, combined with the electric motor, makes 389bhp, while the EV range is roughly 32 miles. There’s tech to match the S-Class, but it’s the powertrain and eco credentials that make this car worthwhile.

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FOR Excellent

efﬁciency combined with a peach of a petrol engine

AGAINST

A diesel will be more frugal if you don’t keep the battery topped up

THE luxury class mixes SUVs and saloons, and the best examples are super-high quality, refined, and offer plenty of advanced tech. Electrification adds to these qualities, with nearsilent running from PHEVs, and future EVs like the Jaguar XJ bringing greater refinement. Buyers at this end can afford to pay for this new tech, too. James Howe

Online reviews editor

Aston Martin DBX OUR PICK DBX (£158,000) LUXURY SUVs aren’t a new concept: the Range Rover and Bentley Bentayga cover this niche convincingly, but Aston Martin’s DBX will definitely be worth waiting for. It’s the first car to be built at the brand’s new plant in Wales, and the DBX needs to underpin the company’s finances into the next decade. Our early taste of a prototype car both on and off road (Issue 1,609) highlighted it has what it takes to bring the fight to the best high-end SUVs.

FOR Will be one of the best-handling high-performance SUVs on sale

AGAINST You’ll

have to pay plenty to experience the thrills and luxury offered by the DBX

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Best Performance cars Porsche 911

TRADITION Looks are an evolution, and 911 has always delivered an engaging driving experience

OUR PICK CK K Carrera with sports exhaust (£84,637)

AWARDWINNER RDWINNER THE 911 is a performance icon, now into its eighth generation and 57th year. And this 992 model is the most sophisticated ever. With every successive iteration the 911 has lost a little tactility and feel, gained a bit of weight, and sacrificed some delicacy, but what you can’t argue with is the tech now on offer. The latest driver-assistance and infotainment systems make it more advanced than ever, but the car’s revised chassis (which uses aluminium more extensively) and 3.0-litre twin-turbo flatsix engine that kicks out 380bhp mean even the base-spec Carrera is very quick. The eight-speed PDK dual-clutch automatic is the only transmission for now, yet the rearwheel-drive Carrera will do 0-62mph in 4.0 seconds. Go for the sports exhaust to unleash a little more growl from the engine, though. The interior really is a step on, with a more cohesive layout. Quality is superb and, with a 2+2 layout and 132 litres of space in the nose, the Porsche is even quite practical for a sports car. Allied to a chassis that pairs ride quality and comfort with superb grip and agility, it’s easily the best performance car on sale today.

FOR Still the best performance car on sale, and now with even more comfort and tech; it’s a car that can be driven day in, day out

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Such a roster of talents doesn’t come cheap, while some of the delicacy of previous versions has been lost

NEWCOMER

CLASS INSIGHT

BMW i8

OUR PICK i8 Coupé (£115,115) BMW ends production of the i8 in April. That means now is a great time to buy a new one, because the i8 offers supercar looks with near-supermini running costs. Its 1.5-litre three-cylinder turbo petrol engine (from sister brand MINI) is combined with an electric motor for e-four-wheel drive and 369bhp. So the i8 will do 0-62mph in 4.4 seconds, yet return a claimed 128mpg and emit just 42g/km of CO2. It’ll also cover up to 32 miles on electric power alone.

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FOR Eco potential mixed with strong performance and futuristic looks

AGAINST Won’t

be on sale for much longer, so grab one while you can

THE i8 shows what future performance cars could be like. We know a hybrid 911 is coming, and greater integration of electric tech will characterise this class over the next decade; even Ferrari is working on a hybrid. There’s no reason to fear such cars, if they’re done right. Electrification can add performance and efficiency, with no sacrifice in fun. Sean Carson Chief reviewer

Jaguar F-Type

OUR PICK P450 V8 RWD (£69,990) TWEAKED styling and a revised engine range for the updated F-Type mean it should be worth waiting for. The V6 motor is gone, but you can still choose between the 2.0-litre four-cylinder and the thundering V8. The F-Type isn’t the most modern sports car on sale, but at this price few cars can offer its blend of style and handling. There’s more tech to improve the appeal too, with a 12.3-inch digital dial pack and the latest smartphone connectivity now available.

FOR More tech and

a fresh face should allow the F-Type to keep pace with rivals

AGAINST No

supercharged V6 in the middle of the engine range, not as sharp as a 911

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Best Cabrios and Roadsters Mazda MX-5

ENJOYMENT Traditional drop-top, front-engine, rear-drive layout means MX-5 is a lot of fun, but not costly

OUR PICK OU K 2.0 Sport Tech (£28,395)

A AWARDWINNER AW RDWINNER T THERE are two versions of the MX-5: the sstandard d roadster and the ‘Retractable Fastback’ RF.. You can’t go wrong with either, Fastba because both becau h are great to drive, good value for mo money and nd are useable every day. Picking between Pic etween the revvy 1.5 and powerful 2.0-litre petrol 2.0-lit ol engines means there’s no wrong choice in terms ms of powertrain, but we’d stick with a manual al version if possible. It has one of the best be shifts ts around, and is brilliantly matched to the responsive nsive and engaging engines; plus a gear gearbox you u have to work yourself adds further depth furthe h to this class-leading roadster. The secrett to the MX-5’s success is its low kerbweight. This means it makes good use kerbw of its m modestt power output, and it’s agile and fun to drive. Its steering could have more feel b but it’s still satisfying to use. The chassis is is communicative, with enough body rroll thatt it’s easy to tell when you’re nearing the edge ed of grip. This compliance means the Mazda is comfortable, too, soaking up bumps Mazd and p potholes well, so it’s great for commuters. There’s not much luggage space, but the MX-5 There is sma small and really easy to nip around town in.

FOR A pure, entertaining, open-air driving

experience set off by a near-perfect manual gearbox and a pair of engaging engines

BEST ECO CHOICE BE

AGAINST Small cabin and poor luggage

space mean you’ll have to pack carefully for touring holidays, slightly numb steering

NEWCOMER

CLASS INSIGHT

MINI Convertible OUR PICK Cooper Sport (£23,210) THE MINI Cooper Convertible returns 45.6mpg and emits 123g/km of CO2 – impressive, given the drop-top is heavier than the Hatch. Yet it brings everything else that’s great about the hard-top: it’s fun to drive, with a lively chassis, punchy engine and a composed ride. The rear seats are handy for short trips, but are too cramped for regular use, and the boot is small, but it’s still quite practical for a convertible. Plus the MINI’s interior is charming and built to a high standard.

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FOR Great to drive, punchy engine; it’s quite quiet with the roof up and it’s reasonably practical

AGAINST Not

enough standard equipment for the price; bewildering options list

OUR climate means the UK is a perfect place to own a convertible. Sunny winter days and mild summers mean you can drive with the roof down nearly all year round. And now is the time to buy a cabriolet, because their future seems uncertain, with makers looking for models to cut from their ranges in order to to meet emissions targets. Sam Naylor

Senior reviewer

Porsche Boxster 4.0 OUR PICK 718 Boxster GTS (£65,949) ONE to both wait and save up for, the 718 Boxster GTS will have the same mid-engined handling prowess as the rest of the range, but with a six-cylinder engine adding to the car’s character and performance. With 394bhp on tap, 0-62mph is seen off in just 4.5 seconds, while experiencing the engine note al-fresco will only add to the engagement. Some people say the GTS is the 718 Boxster Porsche should have made all along; we’re just glad it’s (nearly) here now.

FOR Naturally

aspirated boxer engine brings added appeal and performance

AGAINST Less

frugal than 2.0-litre models; may be long waiting lists and speculative buyers

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Best Electric cars Tesla Model 3

PIONEER Model 3 brings Tesla’s electric-vehicle technology to a wider audience

OUR PICK Standard andard Range Plus (£38,500)

AWARDWINNER NNER THIS is the Model 3’ss second appearance in our rundown of the e best 20-plate cars, but it’s such an importantt and impressive EV that there could be no other her top pick here. The Model 3 is practical, al, loaded with tech, has sports car-baiting performance rformance and a range suitable for most buyers. There’s a three-tier model choice depending on whether you want affordability, range or performance, formance, and the entry-level car starts from £38,500. It features a single 241bhp electric motor and a 60kWh battery pack, which provide de a 0-60mph time of 5.3 seconds and a range ge of 245 miles. Long Range and Performance mance variants feature an extra electric motor forr the front axle and a larger 88kWh battery, so there’s a combined output of around 450bhp,, a maximum claimed range of 348 miles and a 0-60mph time of 3.2 seconds for the Performance rmance version. As an added benefit, the he Model 3’s cabin is impressive. It’s futuristically ically minimalist, yet also big enough for four ur adults, and features an intuitive 15-inch nch tablet-style infotainment system through ugh which you can control nearly all of the vehicle’s ehicle’s functions functions.

FOR Great battery range aided by Tesla’s

AGAINST Relatively pricey, slightly ﬁrm ride, no

Supercharger network, outperforms cars costing far more, more futuristic interior

MOSTAFFORDABLE CHOICE

Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, some won’t get on with so many controls being touchscreen-based

NEWCOMERS Honda e

CLASS INSIGHT

Renault Zoe

OUR PICK Iconic R135 Rapid Charge (£28,370) RENAULT recently updated the Zoe, adding extra soundproofing, a restyled cabin, new infotainment and a larger-capacity 52kWh battery, which gives the compact EV a maximum claimed range of 245 miles. Thankfully, the updates haven’t hit the price; this is still one of the more affordable EVs on sale. It’s also reasonably quick, especially when fitted with Renault’s R135 electric motor, which develops 134bhp and provides a 0-62mph time of 9.5 seconds.

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FOR Reﬁned and

relaxing to drive with a decent range, well equipped, spacious

AGAINST Not

hugely engaging, entry-level motor feels a little underpowered

THE electric car market has never been hotter, with a growing number of drivers swapping to EVs to benefit from reduced bills and less environmental impact. Our trio of forthcoming EVs demonstrates how fast the market is moving, while the UK’s charging network has also improved; there’s never been a better time to switch. Luke Wilkinson Staff writer

DUE: Summer THE Honda e offers cutesy styling and a tech-laden interior, which somewhat offsets its relatively short 136-mile range – particularly if you’re after an urban EV.

Kia Soul EV DUE: Spring IF the Honda won’t go far enough on a single charge, the Soul EV could be worth looking into, because the 64kWh version has an official range of 280 miles.

VW ID.3 DUE: Summer VW claims the ID.3 is “the electric car for the masses”. With a range of up to 342 miles, plus Volkswagen build quality and familiarity, the firm could be right.

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Best Hybrid cars Toyota Corolla

ROUNDED Constant development of its hybrid tech means the Corolla is a great family car

OUR P PICK 1.8 Hybrid Design (£26,215)

A AWARDWINNER AW W WAR TOYOTA h has been developing its hybrid powertrains for decades, and the latestt powertra version of its Corolla family car benefits greatly atly from these ye years of development. Combined d with its TNGA platform, which uses doublewishbone rea rear suspension to ensure it handles les well and rides with composure, the Corolla iss one of the bes best all-rounders in the hatch market. ket. There’s a cchoice of either 1.8 or 2.0-litre petrol engines linked to a battery and electric ic motor. Which Whichever engine you choose, the Corolla is sup superb around town, running silently ntly in pure-electr pure-electric mode at low speed, while the e powertrain is naturally efficient, so you don’tt need to make any changes to your driving style. yle. The Corolla is more practical and fun than the car that it owes so much to, the Prius – so it’s a better ch choice in our book. Its styling is less ess divisive, too, yet y it still manages to be distinctive. ive. There’s roo room for five and a reasonable 36161litre boot, plu plus lots of standard kit. We’d like ea better infotain infotainment system, because this falls lls behind other ffamily cars’, but clearly your money ney is going to the right places with this car: build quality, superb quality super engineering and a great chassis.

FOR Good handling and sharp looks, looks together with a reﬁned chassis and efﬁcient powertrain make it an easy car to live with

BEST ECO CHOICE

AGAINST Toyota’s infotainment systems

continue to lag behind class-leaders; hybrid’s batteries mean the boot is smaller than average

NEWCOMER

CLASS INSIGHT

Hyundai Ioniq

OUR PICK Plug-In Premium SE (£31,950) THIS class is all about saving money on fuel, and the Hyundai Ioniq Plug-in brings the possibility of cutting trips to the pumps down to only a few times a year. Plug in at home and at work and, as long as your commute is smaller than the car’s allelectric range of around 40 miles, you could end up spending nothing on fuel. However, if you have a to make a longer trip, the petrol engine means it’s possible to keep going without having to stop to recharge.

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FOR Plenty of

standard kit, good infotainment, great ride, efﬁcient

AGAINST Bland styling and drive, Plug-In more expensive than standard Hybrid

ELECTRIC cars are the darlings of 2020, but hybrids are relevant; makers like them because they keep fleet CO2 figures down, while buyers seek out efficient non-diesel cars. Conventional hybrids use engine and braking power to charge the batteries, but PHEVs can be plugged in, and will run in EV mode when they use no fuel at all. Sam Naylor

Senior reviewer

Peugeot 3008

OUR PICK Hybrid 225 Allure (£36,585) THE 3008 is one of the best cars in the midsize SUV segment, so we’ve eagerly awaited the plug-in hybrid versions. The top-spec Hybrid 4 model packs four-wheel drive and 296bhp, but this comes at a steep £46,735. Fortunately, Peugeot is also introducing a front-wheel-drive version, which costs more than £10,000 less. This offers an official EV range of 25 miles (compared with 40 miles for the Hybrid4) and 222bhp, yet this should be enough for most buyers.

FOR Retains the

3008’s stylish looks, upmarket interior and user-friendliness

AGAINST

Four-wheel-drive version is too expensive to justify, laggy infotainment

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2020 TAX CHANGES E Strict new emissions tests will affect how much company car tax we pay. Here we look at how the system is changing Hugo Griffiths

Hugo_Griffiths@dennis.co.uk @hugo_griffiths

REMEMBER the old HMRC advert that claimed “tax doesn’t have to be taxing”? Whoever coined that slogan obviously had no idea what would happen to the company car Benefit-in-Kind (BiK) tax system in the 2020/21 financial year, which starts on 6 April. These changes, announced in July last year, are a response to the new European WLTP (World harmonised Light vehicle Test Procedure) emission and economy tests, which see new cars assessed using stricter, more realistic criteria than the old NEDC tests involved. One of the results of these new tests is that a car will have higher on-paper CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions if assessed under WLTP rather than NEDC regulations – even though its on-the-road emissions will be identical. Because company car Benefit-in-Kind tax rates are based on how much carbon dioxide (CO2) a car emits, this would result in higher taxation for company car drivers with WLTP-assessed cars. So the Treasury is changing its BiK rates to take account of the higher on-paper CO2 emissions derived from the new emissions tests; it’s an attempt to ensure drivers with company cars tested under the WLTP regime aren’t unfairly penalised. The way this is being done is by splitting company cars into two groups and using two new, separate sets of Benefit-in-Kind percentage values. The resultant system may be fairer than if the Treasury had left things unchanged, but it has created a structure that is somewhat involved, to say the least.

“The Treasury is changing BiK rates to take into account higher CO2 emissions from new tests”

SAMPLE CARS

Predicated on a 20 per cent taxpayer and a £30,000 car; Group two cars assume a 20 per cent increase in CO2 figures, due to WLTP Cars first registered before 6 April 2020

2020/21

2021/22

Petrol, first registered before 6 April 2020, CO2 = 114g/km

27%

Annual tax liabilities

£1,620

29%

Annual tax liabilities

£1,740

PHEV, 29-mile EV range, CO2 = 37g/km, first registered before 6 April 2020

14%

Annual tax liabilities

£840

EV, first registered before 6 April 2020

Annual tax liabilities

£0

£60

£120

Diesel, RDE2 noncompliant, first registered before 6 April 2020, CO2 = 100g/km

Cars first registered from 6 April 2020

2022/23

Financial year 2020/21

2021/22

30%

31%

32%

£1,800

£1,860

£1,920

31%

32%

33%

Annual tax liabilities

£1,860

£1,920

£1,980

PHEV, 29-mile EV range, CO2 = 44g/km, first registered after 6 April 2020

12%

13%

14%

Annual tax liabilities

£720

£780

£840

EV, first registered from 6 April 2020

Annual tax liabilities

£0

£60

£120

Petrol, first registered from 6 April 2020, CO2 = 137g/km

Annual tax liabilities Diesel, RDE2 noncompliant, first registered from 6 April 2020, CO2 = 120g/km

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2022/23

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XPLAINED Increasingly Complex

JUST to show how complicated this system is, look at the diesel car first registered from 6 April 2020 in the second table to your left. This would have attracted a BiK rate of 33 per cent in the 2020/21 financial year because it is not RDE-compliant and attracts the four per cent diesel surcharge. The new rules, however, knock two per cent off its BiK in the 2020/21 financial year because it was assessed under WLTP criteria, although this cut disappears over the following two years. It’s also worth noting that CO2 emissions for cars registered from 6 April 2020 are likely to be around 20 per cent higher than those of NEDC-assessed cars, so we have factored this in with the calculations.

Group one

NEDC cars first registered before 6 April 2020

FOR cars that were registered before 6 April 2020, NEDC-corellated figures are used for the 2020/21 financial year when calculating Benefit-in-Kind tax rates. The tables for these cars are different from the ones the Treasury previously projected it would use for 2020/21, with rejigged CO2 bands, and different percentage rates in many areas.

Group two

WLTP cars first registered from 6 April 2020 FOR cars that are first registered after 6 April 2020, the new WLTP CO2 figures will be used to determine BiK rates. However, to reflect the fact that WLTP CO2 rates are typically higher than NEDC rates for exactly the same model of car, the Treasury is knocking two percentage points of BiK off the rates used for older, NEDC-assessed cars. However, it’s worth noting that this reduction will fall to one per cent in the 2021/22 financial year, and will disappear altogether in the following year. This means that, even if your car was tested under WLTP and therefore has higher on-paper CO2 emissions than an equivalent NEDC-tested car, there will be no reduction in its BiK rate from April 2022.

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ROADTAX EXPLAINED

GUIDE TO TAX TERMS BiK (Benefit-in-Kind): the tax on a non-salary perk such as a company car, provided by an employer to an employee. CO2 (carbon dioxide): pollutant produced by cars with a petrol or diesel engine, measured in grams per kilometre (g/km), and used to set tax. BiK rate: the percentage of a company car’s value that is taxed. The more CO2 a car emits, the higher its BiK rate. NEDC (New European Driving Cycle): the old test procedure for measuring car emissions and fuel economy. WLTP (Worldwide harmonised Light vehicle Test Procedure): the new economy and emissions test procedure; all new cars registered from September 2019 are assessed under WLTP. RDE2 (Real Driving Emissions, Step 2): RDE emission tests take place on the road as an element accompanying the labbased WLTP assessments. RDE2 sets stricter emission limits than the previous RDE1 standard. Diesel surcharge: diesel company cars not complying with the RDE2 element of WLTP tests are automatically hit with a four per cent BiK increase compared with their petrolengined equivalents.

TAX FACT

The average increase of CO2 emissions for a car tested under WLTP compared to NEDC is 20-25 per cent, although it can range from as little as 7 to as much as 40 per cent.

DIALING DOWN THE CO2 What about electric cars?

PURE electric cars will not be subject to any Benefit-in-Kind tax at all for 2020/21 – regardless of when the car was registered. In 2021/22 they will attract a BiK rate of only one per cent, and in 2022/23 just two per cent. This means company car drivers who choose an EV will save thousands compared with the driver of a comparable diesel.

What about the diesel surcharge? DIESEL cars not meeting the RDE2 element of WLTP tests will continue to be subject to a four per cent higher BiK rate than petrol cars. A number of makers – including Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, Mercedes and Vauxhall – produce RDE2-compliant cars, though, so it’s still possible to take advantage of the reduced tax rates that diesels incur thanks to having low CO2 emissions compared with their petrol equivalents.

So is now the time to choose a pure-electric or plug-in hybrid company car? YES, if you can. EVs have the most attractive BiK rates, but plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) also attract less tax. A ‘typical’ PHEV, for example, can do around 25 miles on battery power alone and will have 49g/km CO2 emissions; such a car would attract a BiK rate of just 12-14 per cent. A typical petrol might emit 130g/km of CO2, attracting a BiK rating of 29-31 per cent, while a typical non-RDE2-compliant diesel might emit 105g/km, making its owner liable for a 28-30 per cent BiK rate.

What about road tax? Isn’t that increasing as well? IN much the same way as with company car tax, WLTP measurements are replacing NEDC CO2 readings for road tax (vehicle excise duty) from this year – although from 1 April rather than 6 April. But while BiK rates apply every year for company car drivers, only the first year of road tax is linked to CO2 emissions, with a flat rate for following years. Because of this, and because of the fact first-year road tax costs are typically lumped into a new car’s on-the-road price, any increased charges related to WLTP being used for road tax rates will not hit buyers as sharply in the wallet. If, for example, a car with NEDC CO2 emissions of 115g/km has 138g/km CO2 emissions thanks to WLTP (a 20 per cent increase), customers would have to make an extra one-off payment of £40 compared with when NEDC figures were used. However, it should be highlighted that some jumps are bigger. A car with NEDC CO2 emissions of 150g/km might increase to 180g/km under WLTP, which would result in its first-year road tax increasing from £210 to £855.

“Company car drivers who choose an EV will save thousands compared with the driver of a comparable diesel”

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CLEAR VIEW

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto give you access to phone apps via car’s screen

Being able to see what’s behind you is a big help when parking in tight spots

Apple CarPlay/Android Auto

HUGO GRIFFITHS Consumer editor

MY geography is terrible. It’s so bad that I once asked my wife if we should head towards Oxford to get to Tunbridge Wells, Kent, from London. So an effective sat-nav system is something of a must. Problem is, manufacturers’ sat-navs tend not to be as good as Google Maps for guidance, and their traffic updates aren’t as good as Waze’s; meanwhile, I’m also a podcast and music addict. So being able to use my phone’s Spotify, Waze and Google Maps apps on the car’s infotainment screen – as you can with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto – is a huge bonus. Given these systems are often free, one has to wonder why makers still bother developing their own.

Prices from: Free-£250

Many car makers bundle CarPlay in with even basic infotainment systems but some, including BMW (on certain cars), charge extra.

Reversing sensors/camera

RICHARD INGRAM

Editor, DrivingElectric

LIVING and working in London, I’d struggle without a reversing camera or, at the very least, rear parking sensors. That’s not to say I have particularly poor spatial awareness or struggle with parking, but being able to see (or hear) what’s behind me while negotiating tight gaps or tiny bays makes my life far easier than it used to be. More often than not, the only space left on my street is just millimetres longer than the car, so having a camera can signal the difference between perfect paintwork and a grazed back bumper. As far as I’m concerned, cameras and sensors make life less stressful, and that’s something that’s well worth paying for.

Prices from: £300

Reversing sensors are often standard, while cameras tend to be relatively inexpensive options; both are worth having.

TECH THAT WE’D SPEND OUR OWN MONEY ON

Our experts reveal which boxes they’d tick on the options list if they were buying a car GRAB AND GO

PLAIN SAILING

Being able to open your car doors without holding a key is very handy

An automatic gearbox can take away the stresses and strains from everyday driving

Automatic gearbox

ALEX INGRAM Staff writer

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THERE is a long-standing trend among UK buyers in certain sections of the market to choose manual gearboxes over the automatic alternatives. But the manual boxes’ greatest advantage – price – has become less relevant, because so many buyers today spread the extra cost across their monthly finance payments. On a busy, dreary commute, changing gear is a tiring, distracting faff. So I can completely see the benefit of a system that will change gears as smoothly as I can, but with no effort on my part. An auto box is perhaps the oldest of the gadgets listed here, but it’s hard to think of any other which could make such a difference to everyday driving.

Prices from £1,100

Automatic gearboxes have improved greatly in recent years; they’re often now more efficient than manuals, and are worth considering.

Keyless entry

VICKY PARROT

Associate editor, DrivingElectric

EVERYONE talks about high roofs, big boots and hardy materials for family motoring; honestly, I can live without all of that. As mum to a toddler, what I struggle to live without is keyless entry. Maybe this is a female thing, but I take my handbag everywhere, and I like to chuck the car key in and forget about it until I absolutely have to fish it out. Having a car without keyless entry means fumbling for the keys at least twice a day, often while restraining my aforementioned toddler, balancing grocery bags, and trying not to turf my handbag’s contents onto the floor. Yes, I should organise my handbag better, but I would cheerfully hand over fistfuls of my own cash to get keyless entry.

Prices from £375

Keyless entry is a great convenience feature, and new industry ratings are forcing makers to beef up security.

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TOP TECH OPTIONS

HOT PROPERTY

COST BENEFIT

Being able to heat and cool your seats is welcome all year round

Lower insurance bills may help make up for the price of optional AEB systems

Ventilated seats

STUART MILNE

Executive editor

AEB: Autonomous braking

ANYONE who has ever owned a car with leather trim will know the sharp intake of breath the instant you drop down into the seats on a particularly cold morning. It’s not pleasant, and the most effective air-con or climate-control systems take an age to warm your legs and back. Heated seats are an absolute must at this time of year. The reverse is true in the summer, however. Park your car in direct sunlight, and those leather seats can reach a searing heat. Ventilated seats don’t just take the edge off in extremes of temperature, either. They make a long-distance drive just that little bit more comfortable, allowing you to arrive at your destination feeling pleasantly chilled.

Prices from: £850

Heated seats are increasingly becoming standard these days, but cooled items are well worth shelling out for, says our man Milne.

Hugo Griffiths

Hugo_Griffiths@dennis.co.uk @hugo_griffiths

KEEPING up to speed with the latest technology can be exhausting. Because as cars become increasingly safer, more reliable and more efficient, manufacturers turn to attention-grabbing technology to draw you into the showroom and get you signing on the dotted line – hopefully after splashing out a bit more on a few choice extras. But with so many pieces

SEAN CARSON

Chief reviewer

CARS that don’t feature autonomous braking as standard are often the ones that might need it most: city cars, superminis and small SUVs that tend to spend plenty of time in town. While many models in these sectors do have it as standard, especially on higher trim levels, there are a few popular models in popular specs that don’t. Take Britain’s best-selling car, the Ford Fiesta. In ST-Line Edition trim it drives brilliantly and offers decent connectivity, but I would certainly pay the extra £350 for autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection. It could save an incident in town and lower your insurance premium at the same time – a win-win situation.

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AEB is becoming mandatory in 2021, and many cars already feature it as standard. But check if your new car will have it, and spec it if not.

of technology available, much of it optional, buyers can end up being left bewildered. To give you a steer on which features you should be sure your next car has, we asked Auto Express staff members what they would spend their own money on when specifying a new car. We drive around 700 cars a year, and the majority of these come ‘fully loaded’, as makers give us the chance to assess not just the cars, but their features as well. So which bits of kit would our experts stump up their own hard-earned money on?

SAVING TIME

A heated screen will make it much quicker for you to get going on a frosty morning

Adaptive cruise control

JONATHAN BURN News and reviews editor

IT may be considered a bit of a luxury and, in truth, not all that necessary, but a good adaptive cruise-control system can be a real blessing. I spend a lot of my time either driving in and around London, which is always heavily congested, or pounding up and down the UK’s clogged motorway network. Being able to let the car handle braking and acceleration – albeit while you keep a watchful eye over things – can make an arduous journey much more relaxing.

Prices from £600

Heated windscreen GUIDING HAND

Adaptive cruise comes into its own in heavy traffic or on the motorway

Adaptive cruise was once the preserve of luxury models like the Mercedes S-Class; today, you can get it on a Ford Fiesta.

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STEVE WALKER

Group website editor

YOU stumble out of your door early in the morning, keys in hand, toast in mouth, horribly late. Then the chill hits you, and you see your car glistening under a layer of ice; your plans for a quick getaway are thwarted. Unless, of course, you have a heated windscreen. We’re not talking here about pressing the button that blows an asthmatic draft of lukewarm air up the windscreen, but proper heated windscreens with elements embedded in the glass that disperse ice in seconds. Ford made the technology famous with its Quickclear system, but today, with the patent expired, it’s available across numerous car brands, usually at relatively affordable prices.

Prices from £310

Heated windscreens are a blessing on cold mornings, although they can be more expensive to replace than standard ’screens.

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PROTECTING YOUR INVESTMENT Keep your new car in the best shape with our recommended products Tristan Shale-Hester

tristan_shale-hester@dennis.co.uk @tristan_shale

YOU’VE ventured into the new car market and chosen the model that’s perfect for you. But from the moment you first take delivery, you have another task to grapple with: keeping it in good condition. After all, buying a car is highly likely to be the most expensive purchase you make, apart from buying a house. And from the day you take delivery, your car will be exposed to a variety of weather conditions, tight parking spaces, and the carelessness of other drivers. Fear not, however: there are a number of steps you can take to keep your car looking good and running smoothly, while keeping its resale value as high as possible and avoiding any additional charges when you hand it back at the end of a finance deal.

Bodywork essentials A WASH brush is a must-have car-care purchase, and Auto Express recommends the lightweight yet sturdy Filmer Car Brush 18797. This isn’t easy to find online, though, so the Kent Super Car Wash Brush might be a better bet; both cost around £5. If you want to invest in a pressure washer, the £175 GMC GPW165 is our latest test winner, while the £110 Hozelock Pico Power (below) is a more affordable option. Whether you go for a brush, a pressure washer or a combination of the two, you’ll also need some car shampoo; Halfords Car Wash & Wax won our most recent test, and is also affordable, at £4 a litre. Drying your car ensures traces of minerals aren’t left on your paintwork to create spots, so a good synthetic chamois is a must. Our favourite is the Kent Extra Large Microfibre Drying Towel – a snip at £4. SPOTLESS A pressure washer can take the strain out of cleaning your car, and a drying towel leaves a clean finish

Maintenance master AS well as kitting yourself out with products to keep your car looking good, it’s vital to think about the mechanical side of things. The first point to make about maintenance is simple: keep up with your car’s servicing schedule. Failure to do so could lead to your manufacturer warranty being invalidated, while servicing will also pick up mechanical issues or problems that aren’t easily noticeable. We wouldn’t recommend carrying out any complicated mechanical procedures unless you’re suitably qualified, but it’s important to keep an eye on your oil, coolant and screenwash levels. Top these up using the grades recommended in your car’s handbook, being careful not to overfill. You should also check your tyres regularly (below), remembering that although the legal tread depth limit is 1.6mm, it’s recommended that you replace a tyre when it gets to 3mm.

General tips Brush with danger

Everything’s covered IF you don’t have a garage or car port, an outdoor car cover offers good protection from the elements. The Halfords Advanced All Seasons Car Cover (below, £50) is our favourite thanks to its breathability, light weight and fair price. Keeping your car clean and covered helps to prevent or minimise the damage that dirt and grime can do in the first place, while deposits such as bird droppings and tree sap can eat through a car’s clearcoat and damage the paint beneath. A good cover also prevents ice from forming on windows and windscreens, saving you time on frosty mornings.

AUTOMATIC car washes are quick and convenient, but despite advances in their brush technology, they still have a tendency to leave minor scratches on your car’s paintwork. It’s best to avoid them.

Value for valet

WHILE some professional valets charge hundreds of pounds for their services, there are plenty who are more affordable. If you can find a reputable local valeter offering a full inside and out job for less than £100, this is worth considering.

Breaking the ice

IT’S important to remove snow from your car before driving, but don’t be tempted to scrape ice off your car’s bodywork – you’re likely to scratch it.

Mechanical sympathy

WHEN you take delivery of your car, treat the first 1,000 miles or so as a running-in period, avoiding high revs and sudden braking if possible. Some makers recommend not towing a trailer or caravan for the first 500 miles, while others advise avoiding extended periods spent at a constant speed.

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AFTERCARE ANSWERS Showroom fresh THE first encounter you’re likely to have with carcare items is when your dealer offers a protective treatment, such as Supagard. These products improve the bodywork’s finish and make it easier to clean the paintwork, while interior applications do the same thing by protecting upholstery from staining – something to think about if you buy a car with a light-coloured interior. Be aware that the price the salesperson first quotes you for such treatments doesn’t have to be the price you end up paying; there’s usually some haggling to be done here. Other add-ons – such as alloy wheel, tyre and cosmetic insurance – might be worth considering, depending on how likely you think you are to need them, or how punitive any leasing agreement is when it comes to wear and tear.

Scratch battle

Polishing things off

GRIT guards are one of the cheaper and more se effective car-care purchases you can make. These simple plastic grates sit at the bottom of your ge bucket and ensure that when you dip your sponge all or brush into the suds you don’t pick up the small ork; stones and grit that could damage a car’s paintwork; these items are trapped at the bottom of the eld bucket by the grit guard’s grate. The Scratch Shield st (£7) is our best buy here; it’s designed to fit most buckets, and is available in a variety of colours.

ONCE everything is clean and dry, you’ll want to polish and wax your car. For best results these tasks should be performed using separate products, and Angelwax Perfect Polish (£9) is ideal for the first stage, with Bilt-Hamber double speed-wax (£15) taking the Auto Express crown for the second. If you’re after sealant wax for alloy wheels, Wonder Wheels Wheel Sealant (£7) is a good buy. wo You should also look after your interior. We recommend two products from Dodo Juice; its Supernatural Leather Cleaner (£10) and Supernatural Fabric Sealant (£13) are both at the top of their game.

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The ultimate guide to buying your new 20-plate Tristan Shale-Hester

tristan_shale-hester@dennis.co.uk @tristan_shale

THERE are some cracking deals to be had on the new-car market, but quirks in manufacturer and dealer business models mean nearly new, or preregistered cars, can be enticing propositions. In order to meet sales targets and receive manufacturer bonuses, franchised dealers often buy and register cars themselves, before selling them as pre-registered. This allows dealers to receive their bonus, with any customer discounts applied to the cars being outweighed by the bonus the dealer will receive from the manufacturer. Pre-reg cars usually come with less than 200 ‘delivery’ miles and are sold with attractive discounts. Choosing one over a brand-new motor means you’ll be limited in spec, because dealers tend to order popular versions that they can sell on easily. You’ll also have to be happy that you’re the second registered keeper, after the dealer. Here, we compare five pairs of cars that are identical in almost every sense, bar the fact one is pre-registered by a dealer and one is brand-new, with our examples taken from franchise websites and manufacturer configurators. You may well be able to negotiate a better deal in person, but they give an idea of how things could play out.

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SHOULD YOU CONSIDER A PRE-REG DEAL? We take a look at the benefits, as well as the pitfalls, of buying a pre-registered nearlynew car instead of a brand-new model

CASE STUDIES

Peugeot 108 1.0 (72) Allure New

OTR £14,070

Period: 48 months (47 monthly payments), ts), 10,000 miles per year Deposit: £978 APR: 5.9% Deposit contribution: £4,650 Monthly payments: £145.09 Optional final payment: £3,105

Total cost over contract:

Pre-reg

BEST DEAL £10,902.23

OTR £9,490

Period: 48 months (47 monthly payments), 10,000 miles per year Deposit: £1,000 APR: 9.9% Deposit contribution: £0 Monthly payments: £164.92 Optional final payment: £2,970

Total cost over contract:

Suzuki Vitara 1.4 BoosterJet SZ-T

New

OTR £19,100

Period: 37 months (36 monthly payments), 9,000 miles per year Deposit: £1,000 APR: 0% Deposit contribution: £0 Monthly payments: £273.17 Optional final payment: £7,266

Total cost over contract:

Pre-reg

£11,721.24

deals perfectly demonstrate why pre-reg isn’t always cheapest. If a buyer were to opt for the pre-reg option over the new one, they could end up paying more for a car that was worth less.

Total cost over contract:

OTR £16,578

Period: 37 months (36 monthly payments), 10,000 miles per year Deposit: £1,500 APR: 6.9% Deposit contribution: £0 Monthly payments: £256.39 Optional final payment: £8,275

£18,100.12

OTR £14,500

Period: 38 months (37 monthly payments), ), 9,000 miles per year Deposit: £1,000 APR: 10.36% Deposit contribution: £0 Monthly payments: £285.26 Optional final payment: £6,479

VERDICT These 48-month Peugeot 108 Allure

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Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost 125 Active

BEST DEAL £17,748.36

VERDICT Pre-reg is the cheaper option here, but

only by £350 or so. While the pre-reg deal can be justified on this basis, it would be understandable if you paid the extra few hundred pounds to get behind the wheel of a brand-new Fiesta.

Total cost over contract:

Pre-reg

£19,005.04

OTR £16,000

Period: 37 months (36 monthly payments),, 10,000 miles per year Deposit: £2,600 APR: 9.9% Deposit contribution: £550 Monthly payments: £236.28 Optional final payment: £7,320

Total cost over contract:

BEST DEAL £18,426.08

VERDICT Again, pre-reg is cheaper than new

here, but the pre-reg Vitara was only £578 less than an equivalent new one. It’s a fact reflected in the overall price difference, with the pre-reg’s deposit contribution offset by a higher APR.

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PRE-REG EXPLAINED Is pre-reg cheaperthan new? IF you’re buying outright, then pre-reg or nearly new cars are cheaper than new – typically by five to 15 per cent. But if you use finance, then the discounted retail price doesn’t always translate to cheaper monthly payments. New cars can be offered with interest rates as low as zero per cent APR, and typically sit at around five per cent. Pre-reg cars usually come with far higher APRs, and when you couple this with the fact that dealers don’t tend to offer deposit contributions with pre-reg cars, it can sometimes be even cheaper to buy brand new. Sue Robinson, director of the National Franchised Dealers Association, told us: “Finance deals can be more or less attractive depending on different manufacturers and models of cars, regardless of whether the vehicle is new or nearly new. “We advise consumers to look at what’s on offer and compare both new and nearly new cars to ensure that they find the best deal available and the vehicle most suited to their driving habits and needs.”

What to look out for

Range Rover 3.0 SDV6 Vogue

Audi A6 45 TFSI quattro Black Ed.

New

OTR £83,655

Period: 36 months (35 monthly payments), 30,000 miles per year Deposit: £7,293 APR: 5.9% Deposit contribution: £3,000 Monthly payments: £1,495.93 Optional final payment: £30,003

Total cost over contract:

Pre-reg

Period: 37 months (36 monthly payments), 20,000 miles per year Deposit: £5,000 APR: 4.9% Deposit contribution: £6,000 Monthly payments: £620.45 Optional final payment: £18,273.75

£89,653.55

OTR £73,000

Period: 36 months (35 monthly payments), ), 30,000 miles per year Deposit: £7,300 APR: 10.9% Deposit contribution: £4,000 Monthly payments: £1,089.18 Optional final payment: £39,465

Total cost over contract: VERDICT The pre-reg Range Rover sees

BEST DEAL £84,886.30

a £10,000 saving over the list price of a brand-new model, but this translates into a saving of only £4,767.25 over three years. This is equivalent to a 5.7 per cent discount.

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OTR £47,555

Total cost over contract:

Pre-reg

BEST DEAL £45,609.95 £ 6

OTR £40,800

Period: 37 months (36 monthly payments), 20,000 miles per year Deposit: £5,000 APR: 12.9% Deposit contribution: £0 Monthly payments: £883.60 Optional final payment: £12,169.50

Total cost over contract:

£48,979.10

VERDICT This is another case where the pre-reg

deal sees the buyer paying more for a car that’s worth less. This is a result of the massive APR difference and the pre-reg car’s lack of deposit contribution from the dealer or manufacturer.

WHEN looking at a pre-reg car, research the model in question. If it’s about to be replaced or facelifted, you could use this information to haggle over the price. Also ensure you receive the new keeper supplement section V logbook, as well as the sales receipt, when of its V5C de the dealer sends off its section of the logbook to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). a a good idea to take out GAP (Guaranteed It’s also P Asset Protection) insurance if buying nearly new. That’s becaus if a brand-new car is written off in the first year, because insure will typically pay out its as-new list price – but insurers w require you to be the first registered keeper they will before they do this. As you’ll be the second registered keeper of a nearly new car, your insurer will most likely ou the car’s market value before the accident. A pay out po GAP policy will make up any potential shortfall between am this amount and what you owe the finance company. Also bear in mind that manufacturer warranties start runnin from the moment a car is registered. This isn’t running much of an issue if this was a couple of weeks before you buy the car, but if it’s already missing six months of its guarantee, then this is something to consider.

What about ex-demonstrators? LUMPED in with pre-reg cars are ex-demonstrators, used by dealers to show off certain models to customers. These will have covered more miles than a pre-reg car and may have had a relatively hard life in a short period of time, but they make for attractive deals. On the other hand, ex-demos can be laden with options and features designed to tempt buyers into upgrading their car when placing an order. If you’re considering an ex-demo car, give it a full inspection for any scuffs or wear, inside and out. It’s also a good idea to look out for any damage underneath the car, as well as checking its alloy wheels for signs of kerbing. If there are any issues, point them out to the dealer and use them to haggle the price down, or have it in writing that these defects will be repaired before you collect the car. Be sure to inspect these repairs carefully to ensure a proper job has been carried out.

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WHAT IF ITALL GOES If the car of your dreams turns into a nightmare, there are legal obligations that a dealer and manufacturer must honour. Here we tell you what they are and how they protect you Hugo Griffiths

Hugo_Griffiths@dennis.co.uk @hugo_griffiths

HOWEVER good a car is, however perfect a specification you’ve chosen, and however delighted you and your family are with it, the fact remains that a car is a hugely sophisticated piece of kit. And with myriad moving parts cars – even brand-new ones – can sometimes go wrong. In theory, the 2015 Consumer Rights Act (CRA) means that, if should you be in the unfortunate position of buying a car that goes wrong, you’re protected by very strong legislation. We say in theory, because while the CRA is a comprehensive law that affords greater protection than the Sales of Goods Act it replaced, if buyers and dealers are unaware of the rights it grants, things can fall down. Knowing your rights is key, therefore, so here we’ll highlight what these are, and give you some practical tips should you find yourself in a position where you have to make use of the rights enshrined to you by law. This advice is geared around those buying from franchised dealerships, which is where most newcar purchases occur, but still applies to those buying from other dealers or online brokers – although private sales and auctions are not covered by the Act. It’s also worth bearing in mind that while the CRA is a legal backstop that protects buyers, new-car warranties tend to be pretty iron-clad, and it can be easier to refer to your manufacturer guarantee before citing the CRA.

THE CONSUMER RIGHTS According to the Consumer Rights Act, any product should be the following things:

“The 2015 Consumer Rights Act means that if you should unfortunately buy a car that goes wrong, you’re protected by very strong legislation”

Fit for purpose

FOR many people, a car being fit for purpose simply means it should comply with UK legislation, but others may have more specific requirements. You might want it to be able to tow a 1,000kg caravan, for example. If you make this clear to the dealer and the car turns out to have a towing capacity of 750kg, the vehicle isn’t fit for your purpose. This sort of eventuality is far easier to argue if you put your requirements to the dealer when ordering.

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WRONG? ACT

KEY CRITERIA

TROUBLESHOOTING

THE GOLDEN RULES

1. It didn’t happen if it’s not in writing

As described

PUT simply, the car you take delivery of should match the specification described in its order sheet – so be sure to give this close scrutiny when you sign it. When the car is delivered, inspect it to ensure that all the features included with the trim level and any options you specified are fitted. Mis-builds do happen, so don’t make any assumptions. The car should also resemble its depiction in adverts, brochures and other literature, although be aware of caveats printed in these; “specification subject to change” and “economy figures may not reflect real-life driving results” mean what you see on paper won’t always be what you get.

IT’S important to document everything in writing when ordering your car (see Page 35), and it’s also vital to log all complaints carefully, from start to finish. If there is an issue with your car, follow up a chat with the dealer with a letter or E-mail detailing the problem, as well as the resolution and timescale that have been agreed. Hopefully you won’t need to make use of this backup, but you may be glad you put things in writing should things not go smoothly.

2. Be civil above all else PROBLEMATIC new cars can be frustrating, but dealers are human; keeping them on-side during complaints is an advantage. Keep discussions neutral and objective, sticking to the facts and remembering it’s not the dealer you’re rejecting, but an inanimate object. Avoid emotive language, personal attacks and imperatives such as “you must”. And turn the Caps Lock off when using your computer, BECAUSE READING A LETTER IN CAPS IMMEDIATELY PUTS PEOPLE’S BACKS UP.

3. Rejection is hard to take IT’S understandable that you should want your car to be perfect, and the majority of issues can be fixed under warranty without too much difficulty. While such faults may take the shine off a new-car purchase, don’t fall into the trap of thinking any problems should be dealt with by rejection. Rejecting a car is a time-consuming, complex process, and one that should only be turned to as a last resort. Far better to agree with the dealer what the problem is and how it can be fixed, as well as discussing some form of goodwill gesture (a free service is a common one to ask for) to make up for the hassle and disappointment.

4. But if you do have to reject…

Of satisfactory quality

A BRAND-NEW car should be in perfect condition. If you go around it with a micrometer you may be able to find tiny variances in panel gaps, but every wheel should be pristine, every piece of metalwork gleaming and unmarked, and the interior should be blemish, smell and squeak-free. Check there are no differences in paint colour between various body panels, and do this in good light. It’s hard to get a good match with some paints on plastic and metal panels, so be sure to check the bumpers are the same colour as the wings.

REJECTION usually occurs when a car has at least one fault that the dealer has been unable to put right over a period of time. Set out the issues in writing, and explain that you are returning the car in the expectation of a full or partial refund. Assuming that you bought the car using finance, you will need to involve the finance provider in discussions, too. Broadly speaking there are three time periods for rejection: within the first 30 days of purchase; after 30 days but before six months; and after six months. Rejecting a car within the first 30 days should see your money refunded in full, but after this period the dealer will be able to make a deduction based on the car’s use. How large this deduction is can often be a matter of some debate.

5. Get some help IF relations with the dealership fail for whatever reason, an outside agency will be able to provide assistance. Most franchised dealers are signed up to The Motor Ombudsman, who can help settle disputes – although be aware that the Ombudsman typically has long lead times, so this is unlikely to be a quick option. You could also contact your local Trading Standards if you feel that the dealer has breached the Consumer Rights Act, while an engineer’s inspection from an organisation such as Dekra can also be useful – although you will have to commission this yourself. The courts provide final recourse as a last resort – but this is a costly route that shouldn’t be taken lightly.

HELP AT HAND The Motor Ombudsman

0345 241 3008 Financial Ombudsman

0800 023 4567 IAEA Institute of Automotive Engineer Assessors www.iaea-online.org/

01296 642895

Dekra www.dekra-expert.co.uk/ vehicle.inspections

0800 334 5678

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SUPERMINI SUVS We pit the new Audi A1 Citycarver against the Ford Fiesta Active

Testers’ notes

“One of those potentially divisive design elements is the new, even larger, illuminated kidney grille. Critics have bemoaned BMW’s recent design language, with its models sporting ever-larger grilles. The X6 takes this to a new level with its backlit glow. ”

Sa Sam Naylor Senior reviewer

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BMW X6 xDrive30d M Sport

Price: £63,840 Engine: 3.0-litre 6cyl in-line turbo, 254bhp 0-60mph: 6.4 seconds Test economy: 29.0mpg/6.4mpl CO2: 161g/km Annual road tax: £465

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NISSAN JUKE Is the Nissan Juke just as good second time around? We find out

Audi’s Q8 was a late rivall to BMW’s X6. Now the carr that started the coupé-SUVcraze is back in Mk3 3 form. But is it top dog? ? Audi Q8 50 TDI quattro S line

Price: £67,760 Engine: 3.0-litre V6 turbo, 282bhp 0-60mph: 6.2 seconds Test economy: 31.2mpg/6.9mpl CO2: 180g/km Annual road tax: £465

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BMW 1 SERIES They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and our man tends to agree

Coming

full circle

WHEN BMW launched the firstgeneration X6 – a “Sports Activity Coupé”, according to the German brand – it’s fair to say its styling was challenging. The X6 arguably started the coupé-SUV craze, and this has boomed over the past decade to the point where BMW has now shifted nearly half a million examples of the X6. If BMW was an early pioneer

Pictures: Otis Clay

in starting this trend – the brand is into its third generation of X6 with this new model we’re testing – Audi was late to add an X6 rival to its line-up, with the firm’s Q8 model only going on sale in 2018. However, we know it’s a worthy rival and one of the best cars in its class, especially in 50 TDI turbodiesel form we’re testing to match the xDrive30d BMW. The X6 has

always been famed for its contentious design, and this new version is no different, with some interesting but potentially divisive touches. Exclusivity is important to buyers in this class, though. Tech will be, too, as well as comfort, quality and performance, so let’s see which fares best in a battle of these luxury coupé-SUVs.

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ROAD TESTS BMW X6 vs Audi Q8 MODEL TESTED: BMW X6 xDrive30d M Sport

Performance

PRICE: £63,840 ENGINE: 3.0-litre 6cyl in-line turbo, 254bhp

Design & engineering

Driving

4.0

score

4.0

THE X6’s powertrain is superb. There’s plenty of power, but it’s the 540Nm of torque that characterises its performance. The turbo technology gives good ﬂexibility and, once the engine is into its stride, the solid wave of torque means the X6 feels effortless under acceleration. It went from 0-60mph in 6.4 seconds – just 0.2 seconds slower than the Q8 – but it’s the in-gear performance that shows the X6’s strengths, basically matching the Audi. It has enough torque that it doesn’t trouble the gearbox, forcing it to kick down, so progress is smooth. This is something the Q8 suffers from in the higher gears. When the BMW does shift down it’s smoother, too, whereas there’s a bit of lag as the Q8’s box wakes up. The X6’s eightspeed unit keeps up with your throttle inputs better. The car feels massive on the road, though. The Q8 is big, but the X6 feels larger – this is partly due to the

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THIS X6 uses BMW’s CLAR platform and has grown in size slightly compared with its predecessor. It’s a big car that’s 26mm longer and 15mm wider than before, so the fresh model has plenty of presence on the road. It’s a striking car, there’s no doubt about it, but we’ll leave it up to you to judge the merits of its design. It’s worth pointing out the new styling cues for this X6, though, which include an illuminated kidney grille for the first time ever on a BMW. It’s a £450 option, but the huge grille also features active aerodynamic slats to reduce drag and improve efficiency. The big, swooping body is suspended by doublewishbone front suspension and a multi-link rear axle, with air suspension standard. All X6s feature BMW’s xDrive four-wheel-drive system, while the 30d name denotes a 254bhp 3.0-litre straight-six turbodiesel engine, linked to an eight-speed automatic gearbox. M Sport trim features everything you’d want as standard. There’s a pair of 12.3-inch screens as part of BMW’s Live Cockpit Professional infotainment set-up, adaptive LED lights, heated leather seats, wireless charging and 21-inch wheels. There’s also BMW’s Parking Assistant (see Practicality, right, for more information), good connectivity and plenty of safety and driver-assistance systems as standard. Quality is good and many surfaces in the X6’s vast front cabin are leather-lined, but there are a few questionable finishes on some plastics. The design is a little fussier than the Q8’s slick, more pared-back style, but both work well and justify the lofty price tags. Although on that point, the BMW is £3,920 cheaper than the Audi. At this level of the market that gap isn’t as significant as it might be on a smaller SUV, especially if you’ll be leasing or buying the car on finance. Check out our Through The Range panel (right) to see how much an X6 will cost you on a PCP.

Running costs

car’s visibility and the steering, which feels a little resistive and squidgy. Yet the X6 is surprisingly composed for such a large, heavy car. It handles neatly, there is some roll but it’s well controlled, and there’s more grip than you’ll ever realistically need. This is a luxury product, and even on 21-inch wheels, the ride pretty much reﬂects this. It’s softer and more forgiving than the Audi, absorbing bumps better. Body movement is nicely damped as well – not too taut and not too ﬂoaty.

THE third-generation X6 is larger and more luxurious than ever, and in xDrive30d M Sport speciﬁcation – what’s likely to be the most popular engine and trim combination – it costs £63,840. There’s plenty that is new with this model, too, so let’s see how it gets on against the Q8.

Practicality

29.0mpg (on test) £113 fill-up/£465 or 37% tax

Practicality Boot (seats up/down)

score

550/1,525 litres

4.1

Performance

COMPARED with its full-SUV sibling, the X5, the X6 sacrifices practicality for styling. The boot is 550 litres with the seats up (100 litres less than the X5’s) against 605 litres in the Q8. Despite being quite tall, it’s not too difficult to load up, and a powered tailgate is standard. Rear-seat space is fine, with enough legroom, but the sloping roofline does eat into headroom, so taller adults will notice this when sitting there. Given the X6 is so big, it’s not always easy to place on the road or manoeuvre, so the Parking Assistant tech comes in handy. It remembers the last 50m of your journey and will reverse out of a car park space or a tight driveway for you. If you do it yourself, the parking sensors and rear-view camera will help.

Ownership

Running costs

0-60mph/top speed 6.4 seconds/143mph

Braking 70-0/60-0/30-0mph 46.4/34.4/8.6m

score

4.0

EURO NCAP hasn’t crash-tested the X6, but because it’s based on the X5 platform and features much of the same safety tech, its full five-star rating should stand for the X6, too. AEB with pedestrian and collision warning is fitted, plus lane-departure warning. The £2,295 Driving Assistant Professional pack adds cross-traffic alert, lane-keep assist with blind-spot warning, semiautonomous adaptive cruise control and a system that will help you swerve to avoid accidents.

score

4.0

THE X6 is the cheaper car, so with both sitting in the top 37 per cent company car tax bracket (they emit 161g/km and 180g/km respectively), it stands to reason it’ll be the more cost-effective model to run for business users. Higher-rate earners will pay £9,314 a year in tax for the BMW and £9,720 for the Audi. If you’re a private buyer then the X6 will also be the better bet, according to our experts. With a predicted residual value of 50.8 per cent, the BMW will shed £31,441 over three years or 36,000 miles, and be worth £32,339. The Audi will depreciate by £35,601, so will be worth £32,159 after the same period.

It’s fractionally slower from 0-60mph, yet the X6 matches the Q8 for performance, thanks to its torquey engine

4L Rear legroom is ﬁne, but sloping roof eats into the headroom

Testers’ notes

“The 3.0-litre diesel even sounds good, with a deep, pleasant, almost musical rumble. There’s no need for the more powerful M50d. The 30d is cheaper and a better fit than the 40i or M50i petrols, too.”

Se Carson Chief reviewer Sean Coupé styling also impacts boot space, which trails the Audi’s

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BMW X6 vs Audi Q8

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Mk3 X6 is bigger and more upmarket. We see how it compares with the Q8 Hi-tech

BMW has 12.3-inch digital dials as standard, while the eight-speed auto transmission works a treat

THROUGH THE RANGE Which trim level might suit you?

Our choice:

X6 xDrive30d Sport BMW’s cabin quality is sound, thanks to use of leather and decent plastics. The dash layout isn’t as minimalistic as the Q8’s

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IF you’re after this xDrive30d powertrain then you have a choice of two trim levels, starting with Sport. While it doesn’t get the more in-your-face looks of the M Sport model we’re testing, it does get most of the same tech and advanced equipment. The only differences are Sport has 19-inch alloys, while M Sport gets 21-inch wheels, plus specific brakes and some sportier interior trim to go with the bodykit. We’d stick with Sport trim, because it comes in at £656 a month based on a £10,000 customer deposit and a £1,000 BMW contribution on a three-year PCP deal limited to 10,000 miles a year. M Sport comes in at £721 a month, so you’d really have to want the looks to spend that. The Sport specification represents better value in our opinion.

ROAD TESTS BMW X6 vs Audi Q8 MODEL TESTED: Audi Q8 50 TDI quattro S line

Performance

PRICE: £67,760 ENGINE: 3.0-litre V6 turbo, 282bhp IN sporty S line spec to match the M Sport BMW, the Audi Q8 is pricier, at £67,760 with the brand’s entry-level 50 TDI turbodiesel engine – but there are some differences in the powertrain, as we’ll see. The question is, can the Q8 pull off the win?

Design & engineering

score

4.1

LIKE BMW, with its CLAR architecture that it’s adapted for the X6, Audi chose to base the Q8 on its MLB Evo platform, which is also used for other Volkswagen Group SUVs, such as the VW Touareg, the Porsche Cayenne, the Bentley Bentayga and the Lamborghini Urus, not to mention Audi’s own Q7 SUV. That means the tech is tried and tested, with multi-link air suspension standard at both ends to accommodate Audi’s quattro four-wheel-drive system. Again, there’s an eight-speed automatic gearbox here that distributes power from the mildhybrid 48V-equipped 3.0-litre V6 turbodiesel engine. There’s more power and torque on tap in the Audi, at 282bhp and 600Nm respectively, but it does weigh 80kg more than the X6, at 2,145kg, so we’ll see how this affects performance. The design isn’t as overtly ﬂashy as the X6 and the Q8 is a little more reserved, but it still uses clever lighting technology to strike a distinctive silhouette at night. There’s no grille illumination here, mind. Inside, the theme is the same, because the Q8’s cabin feels more reserved and sombre than the X6’s, which is no bad thing. It’s a similar layout to Audi’s A8, A7 and A6 models, with a hi-res 12.3-inch digital dash, a 10.1-inch main infotainment touchscreen and an 8.6-inch unit below for the climate control. S line trim also features matrix LED lights, good connectivity, front and rear parking sensors with a reversing camera, wireless charging, heated leather sports seats and 21-inch alloys, so the spec is very similar to the M Sport X6’s. Quality is arguably a shade better, though. There’s less plastic, and more surfaces are leather-clad, giving a feeling that the Q8 justiﬁes its price. The build is also better, and while there are still a few cheap plastics under lids and in the bins in places, there are fewer creaks and trim rattles.

Driving

score

3.9

LIKE the X6’s, the Audi’s engine is great. With all that torque, performance is easy, as our in-gear acceleration figures show. The Q8 took 4.2 seconds to go from 50-70mph in fifth gear, but the X6 matched it in almost every test. It makes a nice rumble under load, but the Audi’s eight-speed auto gearbox isn’t as responsive or quick to shift as the X6’s. When cruising on the motorway in top gear, touch the throttle and the Q8 is too keen to kick down, only there’s a pause as the transmission shifts to seventh or even sixth, causing a hiccup in progress. It’s not the most refined element of the experience, given that the engine is good otherwise. The chassis soaks up potholes and lumpy tarmac well enough but it isn’t quite as compliant as the X6, so nasty scars and big inputs do upset the chassis’ composure. That’s why the air suspension is best left in Comfort mode. As in the BMW, the sportier

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settings control roll better, but on these cars’ big wheels the ride in both becomes more brittle. The Q8’s steering is lighter (in Comfort) and the car has plenty of agility for a big SUV. These brands have had to inject a sense of dynamism into these sportier 4x4s, but they really are best at cruising around and maximising comfort.

Practicality

31.2mpg (on test)

£99 fill-up/£465 or 37% tax

Practicality Boot (seats up/down) 605/1,755 litres

score

4.3

DESPITE its similar coupé-like styling, the Q8’s rooﬂine is squarer than the swoopy X6’s, which means there’s more boot space, at 605 litres, with the rear seats up, and much more passenger room in the back; legroom is great, while the Audi offers far more headroom, too. There’s not much difference between them when it comes to accessing the back seats, or in how easy it is to load their boots. The Audi also gets a powered tailgate as standard and the hatch is big so it’s easy to load. Plus you can drop the air suspension to its lowest height using a button in the boot, which makes lifting suitcases or heavy items in a little easier. Rear visibility is better too, which makes the Q8 easier to position and means manoeuvring in tight spots isn’t as daunting.

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Performance 0-60mph/top speed 6.2 seconds/152mph

Braking 70-0/60-0/30-0mph 43.5/33.6/10.9m

score

4.1

AUDI’S reputation with buyers was a little better according to our Driver Power 2019 survey. The brand took 16th spot out of 30 brands, nine places ahead of BMW, but neither was a great result for these premium marques. The Q8 matches the X6’s safety tech and ﬁve-star Euro NCAP rating, though. Autonomous braking and lane-departure warning are both standard, while the £1,375 City Assist pack adds front and rear cross-trafﬁc alert and blind-spot warning, plus AEB for when you’re reversing. The £1,950 Tour Pack features turn and collision assist, plus semi-autonomous adaptive cruise control that’ll keep you in your lane.

score

3.9

DESPITE weighing more and producing more power the Q8’s 31.2mpg showed it’s more efﬁcient than the BMW (but not by much), which managed 29mpg. It means owners will spend £2,318 a year in fuel, £176 less than the X6. It’s also worth factoring in other costs such as servicing and insurance on these pricey SUVs, too. Three years’ maintenance on the BMW will set you back £1,080 (£360 a year), while insurance cover for our example driver stands at £662 a year. This compares with £600 for Audi’s two-year service pack (£300 a year average); insurance is £711 a year.

Torquey engine offers bags of performance, but is let down by a gearbox that can’t match the X6’s for its speed of response

4L Audi’s SUV offers more headroom and legroom than the X6

Testers’ notes

“The Q8’s mild-hybrid tech helps boost efficiency. The big benefits are the stop-start system’s super quick reactions and being able to coast engine-off at low speed to recoup some energy.”

Sa Naylor Senior reviewer Sam Squarer rooﬂine gives Q8’s boot a 55-litre advantage over BMW

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BMW X6 vs Audi Q8

Audi Q8

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BMW’s coupé-SUV competitor is more expensive, but is that money well spent? Hi-tech

Digital instrument panel is one of three displays. Gearbox can be keen to kick down, making it the weak link in the Q8’s powertrain

THROUGH THE RANGE Which trim level might suit you?

Our choice: Q8 50 TDI S line Q8’s cabin trim feels more premium, which helps to justify the price, but there are some cheaper plastics. Finish is better, too

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INFOTAINMENT, FIGURES & RESULTS

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THIS 50 TDI powertrain is available on every trim level in the Q8 range, starting with the S line model we’re testing here. It’s the one to go for, because we’ve seen how much standard kit it gets, and at £852 a month on the same terms as the BMW (including a £1,250 deposit contribution from Audi), it’s the best-value Q8. That’s because Edition 1 adds 22-inch rims, subtly different exterior and interior trim, heated rear seats and an extra mode for the Virtual Cockpit, but also £246 to the monthly price. Top-spec Vorsprung costs £1,247 a month and offers different 22-inch wheels, a B&O stereo, four-wheel steering, soft-close doors, different seats with cooling and massage functions, a head-up display plus much more safety tech. It’s luxurious, but it’s also pricey.

ROAD TESTS BMW X6 vs Audi Q8

Infotainment BMW X6

score

4.5

Live Cockpit Professional Standard

Key features: Digi dash, connectivity, nav

Which multimedia system is best for music, sat-nav & connectivity?

BMW’s Live Cockpit Professional is standard and features two 12.3-inch digital displays, one for the dash and one for the infotainment. The central touchscreen can also be operated by the rotary iDrive wheel, which is still the best way to use it on the move. It makes the system easier to manipulate because you don’t have to divert as much attention to where you want to touch it, as in the Q8. The graphics are great, it processes inputs quickly and has lots of features. CarPlay works well, but it’s a shame there’s no Android Auto. Still, the standard nav and trafﬁc info are so good that it’s worth using them. Gesture control (a gimmick) and wireless charging are standard, too, while BMW’s voice-activated Personal Assistant really works. It might not look quite as slick as the Q8’s system initially, but its functionality and ease of use are even greater.

Display A lack of

Android Auto is the only real ﬂy in the ointment, because otherwise the X6’s infotainment is fully featured and easy to use. Nav is standard and the 12.3-inch screen is sharp

FOR AND AGAINST Big, twin screens, functionality so well integrated, lots of high-end features standard No Android Auto

Audi Q8

score

4.5

MMI Nav Plus Standard

Key features: Triple screen set-up

WE’VE already seen the features the Q8 receives as standard, and the three screens work with the polish we’ve come to expect from Audi infotainment. Mostly. The screen very rarely misses inputs, but you do have to divert more attention to the function you want compared with in the BMW, due to the Audi using haptic touchscreen technology. You can’t ‘feel’ your way around the system like with the X6’s dial. Response times are great, but while it’s not initially as intuitive a set-up as the BMW’s, you get used to it very quickly. The graphics are brilliant – sharper than any screen in the X6 – and you can manipulate the dash to show plenty of different info. The BMW’s system is less customisable; Audi is the master at these set-ups. CarPlay works well, as does Android Auto, which is standard, unlike on the BMW. There’s very little to split them because each system is stronger in certain areas.

FOR AND AGAINST Bright, sharp screens, quick to respond, lots of features Shows ﬁngerprints more, takes longer to get used to

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Screen Audi’s main

infotainment display is one of three in the Q8. It’s sharp, responsive and has plenty of features. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are both included – unlike in BMW – and work well

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BMW X6 vs Audi Q8

Figures On the road price/total as tested Residual value (after 3yrs/36,000) Depreciation Annual tax liability std/higher rate Annual fuel cost (12k/20k miles) Insurance group/quote/VED Cost of servicing

Audi Q8 50 TDI quattro S line

BMW X6 xDrive30d M Sport

£67,760/£72,150 £32,159/47.5% £35,601 £4,860/£9,720 £2,318/£3,864 47/£711/£465 £25 per month (2yrs)

£63,840/£70,580 £32,399/50.8% £31,441 £4,657/£9,314 £2,494/£4,157 47/£662/£465 £30 per month (3yrs)

Length/wheelbase Height/width Engine Peak power/revs Peak torque/revs Transmission Fuel tank capacity/spare wheel Boot capacity (seats up/down) Kerbweight/payload/towing weight Turning circle Basic warranty (miles)/recovery Driver Power manufacturer/dealer pos. NCAP: Adult/child/ped./assist/stars

4,986/2,995mm 1,705/1,995mm V6/2,967cc 282/3,500 bhp/rpm 600/2,250 Nm/rpm 8-speed auto/4wd 75 litres/repair kit 605/1,755 litres 2,145/745/3,500kg 13.3 metres 3yrs (60,000)/1yr 16th/20th 93/87/71/73/5 (2019)

0-60/30-70mph 30-50mph in 3rd/4th 50-70mph in 5th/6th/7th/8th Top speed/rpm at 70mph Braking 70-0/60-0/30-0mph Auto Express econ. (mpg/mpl)/range WLTP combined WLTP combined Actual/claimed CO2/tax bracket

6.2/5.7 secs 2.5/3.1 secs 4.2/5.9/5.6 secs/N/A 152mph/1,600rpm 43.5/33.6/10.9m 31.2/6.9/515 miles 32.5-33.2mpg 7.2-7.3mpl 243/180g/km/37%

Isofix/parking sensors/camera Auto box/lane-keep/blind spot/AEB Clim./cruise ctrl/leather/heated seats Met paint/LEDs/keyless/pwr tailgate Nav/digi dash/DAB/connected services Wireless charge/CarPlay/Android Auto

Results

Yes/F&R/yes Yes/yes/£1,375*/yes Yes/yes/yes/yes £750/adaptive/y/y Yes/yes/yes/yes Yes/yes/yes

PRICE

Q8’S price is offset by higher-quality cabin and features such as Android Auto, which isn’t available on the X6. Both are pricey machines, though.

BIGGEST BOOT

AUDI is more practical, with an extra 55 litres of boot space. The interior is also more spacious in the rear, so the Q8 is the more versatile machine.

SAFETY

BOTH cars get a similar level of standard safety tech, so scored an identical fivestar rating from crash-test expert Euro NCAP.

★★★★✩ AUDI Q8

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6.4/6.0 secs 2.5/3.1 secs 4.2/6.0/8.5/16.9 secs 143mph/1,500rpm 46.4/34.4/8.6m 29.0/6.4/542 miles 34.9-36.7mpg 7.7-8.1mpl 261/161g/km/37%

EQUIPMENT

PRETTY much everything you’d want is standard. Both models feature semiautonomous adaptive cruise as options.

AUDI

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4,909/2,933mm 1,702/1,989mm 6cyl in-line/2,993cc 254/4,000 bhp/rpm 560/1,500 Nm/rpm 8-speed auto/4wd 85 litres/run-flats 550/1,525 litres 2,065/715/3,500kg 12.6 metres 3yrs (60,000)/3yrs 25th/25th 89/86/75/75/5 (2018)^

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head DESIGN ENGINE

STRAIGHT-six diesel gives away power and torque to Audi’s V6, but both offer strong performance, as our figures show. GEARBOX

X6’s transmission easily has the measure of Q8’s gearbox, which is a little jerkier in some situations. But both deliver good refinement.

ECONOMY

BMW couldn’t quite match the Q8’s economy. However, neither is particularly fuelefficient, so expect relatively high running costs.

Yes/F&R/yes Y/£2,295*/£2,295*/y Yes/yes/yes/yes Y/adaptive/£2,150*/y Yes/yes/yes/yes Yes/yes/no

1st

BMW

PRICE is less important at this level, and the Q8 does more things well than the X6. It’s roomier inside and has a bigger boot, so is more practical, performance is solid, and the Q8 feels more premium. The tech is superb, and the brilliant standard spec adds a few more features than in the X6. While it might be slightly costlier to buy (but cheaper to run), the Q8 feels like a higher-quality, more luxurious product.

2nd

THE BMW still feels like it’s more style over substance. The powertrain and infotainment are great and it rides nicely, too, but even though it’s cheaper than the Audi, the X6 just fall short of its competitor in a few key areas that high-end SUVs like these need to nail. The BMW is better to drive and has more tech than its predecessor, but is still just short of the best in the class.

★★★★★

SOME people will love the X6’s looks, with its design jewellery, such as the huge, enlarged kidney grille that has come to characterise modern BMWs. Others will hate these points, including the new backlighting for the X6’s nose. Both cars use LED tech to create a recognisable image at night. The Q8 is a lot more reserved, though. We’ll see if the BMW’s design means the X6 continues to sell well.

LUXURY MANY, many points contribute towards a luxurious feeling. Both models score well in some areas – the BMW its standard spec, the Audi its build quality and materials – but both have drawbacks. The X6 is more cramped in the rear, while the Q8’s gearbox could be better. Neither is perfect, so we’d recommend going for the standard X5 and Q7 SUVs, saving some money, clawing back some practicality and losing no luxury at all.

★★★★★

AEB = Autonomous Emergency Braking. *Part of option pack. ^Result for BMW X5. In red = equipment fitted to our test car. Insurance quotes from AA (Tel 0800 107 0680 or www.theAA.com) for a 42-year-old living in Banbury, Oxon, with three penalty points. Residual values provided by CDL VIP Data.

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Mercedes GLE 400 d Coupé DUE: June ’20 Price: £72,530 Engine: 3.0-litre 6cyl, 325bhp THE new GLE Coupé is Mercedes’ take on this formula. Arriving this summer, it’s a little pricier, but that’s because the 400d gets more power and only comes with the Premium Plus pack already ﬁtted.

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Audi A1 Citycarver vs Ford Fiesta Active

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Carving out a niche Audi’s A1 is the latest supermini to get the jacked-up treatment. We put the Citycarver head to head with the Ford Fiesta Active Pictures: Otis Clay

THIS is the new Audi A1 Citycarver. Its marketing and name draw a tenuous link between its higher ride height and underbody protection, and driving in urban areas. The reason why these aspects, which are usually associated with off-roading, have been used like this is that customers in towns are increasingly choosing SUVs over superminis and city cars. The A1 Citycarver combines both factors, so Audi will be hoping the model appeals to even more buyers as a result. It’s so closely related to the A1 supermini that you could say it was another trim level; after all, this is what Ford does with its own take on the formula, the Fiesta Active. Both models have raised suspension compared with their conventional counterparts, plus extra body cladding and a higher driving position. These small cars have a lot in common, including a downsized turbo engine under the bonnet and their tech-filled cabins. Here we’ll find out how these changes affect the way the cars drive, and which is the better model to go for if you’re looking for a car that’s slightly higher than a hatch, but isn’t quite a full-on SUV.

Audi A1 Citycarver 30 TFSI

Price: £22,040 Engine: 1.0-litre 3cyl petrol, 114bhp 0-60mph: 9.7 seconds Test economy: 42.3mpg/9.3mpl CO2: 119g/km Annual road tax: £145

Testers’ notes

“Audi and Ford aren’t usually seen together in tests, but the Citycarver and the Active are aimed at similar customers. You can get more for your money with the Ford, especially as there’s a 123bhp Fiesta for similar money to the 114bhp Audi.”

Sean Se Carson Chief reviewer

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Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost 125 Active X Edition

Price: £21,605 Engine: 1.0-litre 3cyl petrol, 123bhp 0-60mph: 8.5 seconds Test economy: 43.4mpg/9.6mpl CO2: 98g/km Annual road tax: £145

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ROAD TESTS Audi A1 Citycarver vs Ford Fiesta Active MODEL TESTED: Audi A1 Citycarver 30 TFSI

PRICE: £22,040 ENGINE: 1.0-litre 3cyl, 114bhp

use, because it’s punchy, smooth and refined. This was shown in our in-gear tests, where the Audi kept up with its more powerful rival. It took 4.2 seconds to go from 30-50mph in third gear, 0.1 seconds ahead of the Fiesta, but it fell 0.5 seconds behind the Ford’s time of 6.0 seconds in fourth. The gap widened in the higher gears, where the newcomer needed 9.2 and 12.7 seconds to go from 50-70mph in fifth and sixth gears respectively, while the Fiesta Active managed 8.4 and 10.8 seconds. Yet neither car feels underpowered, because their turbocharged engines mean they pick up speed easily providing you’re in the right gear. As in the Fiesta, once the A1’s turbo is working, performance is easy, so combined with the settled high-speed ride, this torque and refinement make it a good cruiser.

WE’RE testing the Audi A1 Citycarver 30 TFSI. The ‘30’ in the name refers to the engine’s power output, and because the Citycarver is in effect a trim level of the A1 range, this manual model is the only version with this powertrain. It costs £22,040.

Design & engineering

3.7

APART from a few key changes, the Citycarver is identical to the normal Audi A1 Sportback supermini. The ride height has been raised by around 4cm and there are different styling details on the outside, plus some underbody protection, but fundamentally this is an A1. It’s the same story with the Fiesta Active, too, so this is not particularly surprising. The latest A1 uses the Volkswagen Group’s MQB A0 chassis, so it shares parts with the VW Polo, including its engine. The 1.0-litre three-cylinder unit produces 114bhp, 10bhp less than the Ford, and is linked to a six-speed manual gearbox driving the front wheels. There aren’t any off-road driving modes, but you can switch between the normal setting, an eco mode and a sportier conﬁguration, but these barely change the driving experience. Inside, the Citycarver is the same as a normal A1, which means it’s more upmarket than the Ford, even though there are still some cost-saving hard plastics in the Audi, such as on the doors. It’s pitched as a premium product, unlike the more mainstream Fiesta Active, so we would expect a higher standard of materials in the cabin, but this is only the case in certain areas. The seats and steering wheel feel more premium than the Ford’s, so the key touchpoints are good, but elsewhere inside, the Ford is able to keep up with its rival in this respect. You get a 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster as standard in the Audi, though, which is key in making it feel more hi-tech than the Fiesta. It can display all sorts of useful information, including full sat-nav mapping. Audi’s Virtual Cockpit was one of the ﬁrst displays of this type and it’s still among the best around for functionality and customisation, and a great feature at this level of the market. Other standard kit includes AEB, lane-keep assist, LED lights, air-con, cruise control and connectivity that features Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

Driving

score

3.9

IT’S likely not a shock to learn that the A1 Citycarver drives almost identically to the normal A1. However, it’s not exactly the same; with more suspension travel to absorb bumps, thanks to the raised height, the ride is slightly softer, which means the Citycarver is actually slightly better to drive. But it’s not by much, because it still ﬁdgets around town and doesn’t settle down until you get up to speed. The Fiesta Active is also softer than the normal supermini version, and in both forms it rides more smoothly than the Audi, but also feels more fun. The A1 has precise steering, decent grip and a solid gearchange, but the Fiesta’s entertaining chassis and quick steering give it the advantage here. While the Audi’s engine has less power, the A1’s low kerbweight of 1,140kg means performance is good enough, and the engine is reasonably fun to

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Practicality

Running costs 42.3mpg (on test) £51 fill-up/£145 or 27% tax

score

3.8

THE A1 has a light and airy cabin, which gives the feeling of space, and there’s more shoulder room in the front seats than in the Ford, too. Yet the Audi’s real advantage is its rear seats, which are more comfortable to sit in and have more leg and headroom than in the Fiesta Active. With a tall driver, legroom is still tight in the back, but this is true in both models. The Audi has more boot space, too; the A1 Citycarver has 335 litres of space, and a lower loading lip than its rival; the Ford has 311 litres. It also has an adjustable boot floor, which helps to keep the floor flatter in two-seat mode with the rear seats folded.

Ownership

Running costs

4.0

ON test the Audi returned 42.3mpg, which was only slightly behind the Ford’s 43.4mpg. These ﬁgures result in an annual fuel spend of £1,651 in the A1 and £1,609 in the Fiesta. Depreciation works in the Audi’s favour, though. Our experts predict it’ll keep 49.8 per cent of its list price, losing £11,064 in three years or 36,000 miles, while the Ford loses £12,756 in that time due to a lower residual value of 41.0 per cent.

335/1,090 litres

Performance 9.7 seconds/123mph

! Braking 70-0/60-0/30-0mph

L4 Audi A1 Cit 53.3/37.2/11.4m

4.0

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Boot (seats up/down)

0-60mph/top speed

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THE A1 Citycarver comes with lane-keep assist and AEB as standard, plus LED headlights and rear parking sensors. There’s no reversing camera, though, which is standard on the Ford. This is a shame because rearward visibility could be better on the Citycarver. Audi ﬁnished 16th in our Driver Power 2019 survey, ahead of Ford’s 23rd place out of 30 brands.

Practicality

Citycarver blends supermini sensibility w

4L Citycarver’s boot is 24 litres bigger than Ford’s, at 335 litres

Testers’ notes

“The Citycarver costs £1,400 more than a normal A1 in mid-spec Sport trim, which gets a similar level of standard kit. It rides slightly better, but not by enough to justify that extra cash.”

Sa Naylor Senior reviewer Sam Audi has more rear head and legroom, plus comfortable seats

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THROUGH THE RANGE How much will it cost on PCP?

with SUV styling. We see if it has the measure of the Fiesta Active

Punchy 1.0-litre engine trailed Fiesta’s for power yet wasn’t too far behind in our acceleration tests

Our choice: Options only

NEXT CAR

Increasing ride height by 4cm brings slight improvement in ride comfort on the road

Certain materials in the Citycarver feel more premium than the Ford’s, but there are still some hard plastics in the cabin

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Digital dials add a hi-tech touch to the A1’s cabin. Ford doesn’t offer these on the Fiesta

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Performance

THERE’S only one 30 TFSI model to choose from here because the Citycarver is its own trim level in the A1 range. Our example PCP finance deal uses a £2,200 deposit over a 36-month term. We usually use a 10,000-mile annual limit, but because Ford quotes for 9,000 miles, we’ve matched that here. On these terms the A1 Citycarver 30 TFSI manual is £310 a month. Along with the body cladding and raised ride height, standard equipment includes 17-inch wheels, LED headlights, rear parking sensors, cruise control, selectable driving modes and air-conditioning. Tech is a strong point, because even without sat-nav as standard (it’s £250), you get a touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, Bluetooth and DAB, plus a 10.25-inch digital dash.

ROAD TESTS Audi A1 Citycarver vs Ford Fiesta Active MODEL TESTED: Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost 125 Active X Edition PRICE: £21,605 ENGINE: 1.0-litre 3cyl, 123bhp FORD saw the opportunity to add a jacked-up version of its Fiesta to the range when the new model was launched in 2017, so it’s the established rival for the A1 Citycarver. To match its premium competitor we’re testing the top-spec Active X Edition, which costs £21,605, although lesser models offer a cheaper way into ownership.

Design & engineering

3.7

THE Active is available with a range of engines, including 99bhp and 138bhp versions of the 1.0-litre three-cylinder EcoBoost petrol engine, and this 123bhp motor. Whichever option you go for, there’s a six-speed manual gearbox driving the front wheels, so the set-up is similar to the A1’s. The Ford has less torque than its rival, at 170Nm against the Audi’s 200Nm, but it arrives lower down in the rev range to help flexibility, and it matches the A1’s torque figure on overboost. While the Fiesta trails its rival for upmarket appeal, it’s not by as much as you might think. The materials inside are actually similar in quality to the Audi’s, with some cheaper plastics but also some soft-touch, pleasant-feeling surfaces. It falls down slightly when it comes to design, because the chunky buttons and slightly incoherent dash design mean the Active doesn’t look as classy and modern as the A1 inside. However, there’s plenty of equipment here that’s not fitted to the Audi. For example, a reversing camera is standard, along with sat-nav and climate control – these are optional on the Citycarver. Extras such as metallic paint and wireless charging are cheaper on the Ford, too, although it’s a shame AEB is optional, because this is important safety tech. You also get off-road driving modes, unlike in the Audi, although these just change the ESC system’s settings rather than adopting any form of four-wheel drive. There’s no digital dashboard available, but the Ford’s infotainment system has been updated and now looks more modern than it did before (see Page 82).The Audi’s set-up still beats it, however.

Driving

score

4.2

THE Fiesta has long been the supermini of choice for keen drivers, and much of this handling brilliance is present even in the Active. Its steering is quick and weightier than the Audi’s, and while it could do with more feel, there aren’t any other superminis that have steering as well-judged as this. It’s matched to a great chassis that, even with the extra body roll introduced by a higher ride height, provides plenty of agility and fun. That six-speed gearbox is great, too, with a heavier and more satisfying shift than the Audi’s. The A1’s is good, because it has a precise action, but the Ford’s transmission is better and ﬁts well with its engine. Its 1.0-litre motor is another highlight here. It makes a thrummy noise when revved, which is fun, yet it’s not intrusive at a steady speed even though it’s slightly noisier overall than the Audi’s engine. But it provides decent pulling power from lower in the rev range than its competitor, and it was faster in most of our acceleration tests. The Fiesta Active needed 8.5 seconds to sprint from 0-60mph, while the A1 Citycarver clocked 9.7

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seconds. Plus, from 30-70mph through the gears the Ford took 8.6 seconds, which was a full second quicker than its rival achieved. It was only in our 30-50mph test in third gear that the Audi was quicker, and that was just by 0.1 seconds. The Ford rides more smoothly than its German rival, too. Both are about the same on the motorway – generally comfortable, but with harsher bumps sometimes disturbing the calm – but the Fiesta Active is more compliant at lower speeds, because undulating roads don’t unsettle it through corners, and potholes are absorbed more smoothly, too. Comfort is also helped by the driving position, which is better than the Audi’s. However, it’s higher up than a normal Fiesta, so tall drivers aren’t able to sit low enough to see the top of the instruments.

Practicality

Running costs 43.4mpg (on test)

£54 fill-up/£145 or 23% tax

Practicality Boot (seats up/down) 311/1,093 litres

score

3.7

WITH a 311-litre boot, the Fiesta trails behind the Audi’s 335-litre load bay. There’s no adjustable floor, either, which means there’s more of a loading lip , and when you fold the rear seats down, the floor isn’t flat. However, the Ford isn’t too much less practical than its rival when it comes to luggage space. It is less roomy for passengers, though, because there’s less head and legroom in the back seats. It’s also slightly darker in the rear seats, which makes it feel cramped. Children will fit fine, but adults won’t want to spend too much time in the back.

Performance 0-60mph/top speed 8.5 seconds/121mph

! Braking

4L Ford Fiesta 70-0/60-0/30-0mph

Ownership

3.9

AUTONOMOUS emergency braking isn’t standard on the Fiesta, and instead it’s part of a £550 pack that also adds blind-spot assist, adaptive cruise control and door-edge protectors to prevent car park dings. The lack of standard AEB is a shame, but the Ford is cheaper than the Audi, and the German model isn’t available with blind-spot assist, so the add-on (called High Series – Driver Assistance Pack) is worth it.

Running costs

53.7/40.2/9.8m

score

4.1

RELATIVELY low CO2 emissions and a cheaper list price mean that the Fiesta Active is a better company car choice. It’s in the 23 per cent Beneﬁt-in-Kind bracket, emitting 98g/km of CO2 and will cost a standard-rate earner £985 this year. The Audi sits in the 27 per cent category due to emissions of 119g/km, so it will cost the same person £1,178. Both cars cost £145 per year in road tax. More power and no AEB in the Fiesta means it costs a bit more to insure: our example driver will pay £431 for a year’s cover on the Ford and £402 on the Audi.

Jacked-up Fiesta is the established rival

4L Boot is smaller than Audi’s and ﬂoor doesn’t adjust for height

Testers’ notes

“An automatic transmission is available on certain engines in the Fiesta Active range, but you can’t add one on this 123bhp model. That’s okay, because the six-speed manual is great to use.”

Se Sean Carson Chief reviewer There’s less room in the back seats than in the A1 Citycarver

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THROUGH THE RANGE Which trim level might suit you?

l for the Citycarver. Is it a better choice than the Audi?

Our choice:

Fiesta Active 1.0 EcoBoost 125 Edition INFOTAINMENT, FIGURES & RESULTS

Ford’s suspension soaks up bumps better than Audi’s, so Fiesta is more comfortable

Interior design can’t match the Audi’s, but there’s not much difference in the quality of the materials, while Ford gets more kit

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All offers and finance prices correct at time of going to press

a Active

Performance

Fiesta Active beat the Citycarver in all but one of our acceleration tests, while torque arrives lower in the rev range

THERE are two trim levels in the Fiesta Active range, and this 123bhp engine is available on both, but there are other engine options, including a diesel. Active Edition offers 17-inch alloy rims, roof rails, parking sensors, an eight-inch touchscreen with smartphone connectivity and nav, plus cruise control and keyless start. On our example PCP deal, covering 36 months and 9,000 miles a year with a £2,200 deposit, it costs £267 a month. Move up to Active X Edition and that increases to £292 a month. This model features 18-inch alloys, traffic-sign recognition, a Bose stereo and keyless entry. We’d go for the cheaper of the two because it offers all the kit you’d need at a more affordable price, giving you room to add AEB and adaptive cruise.

Fiesta only has analogue dials, yet the digital panel shows a range of driving information

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ROAD TESTS Audi A1 Citycarver vs Ford Fiesta Active

Infotainment Audi A1 Citycarver

score

4.1

MMI Navigation Plus £1,695 option

Key features: Digital dash, smartphone link THE A1 Citycarver comes with an 8.8-inch touchscreen as standard, with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity – but no sat-nav. This is a £250 option individually, but our car was ﬁtted with the £1,695 Technology Pack that adds an upgraded 10.1-inch touchscreen infotainment system. It’s an excellent set-up and works brilliantly with the standard digital instrument cluster. The screen is sharp and responsive, and perfect for use with the smartphone connectivity. It loads up faster than the Ford’s system, too. The menus are also more modern-looking than the Fiesta’s, even with that car’s updated system. Trafﬁc information comes with the Technology Pack, too, plus other connected services, including Google Earth, parking info, Twitter, weather and E-mail access. The Audi’s Virtual Cockpit is also great, offering lots of customisation and full sat-nav mapping.

Display Larger 10.1-inch display is an optional extra, as is built-in satellite navigation. However, the screen is sharp, there are lots of functions and it works well with the digital instrument panel.

FOR AND AGAINST Digital instrument cluster is excellent, sharp screen, system is easy to use Sat-nav isn’t standard, screen attracts ﬁngerprints easily

Ford Fiesta Active

score

4.0

SYNC3 Standard

Key features: Sat-nav, smartphone link THE Fiesta Active features the latest version of Ford’s SYNC3 set-up. There’s a slightly different look, including new fonts and colours, but the system was basically sound in the ﬁrst place, so a spruce-up was all it needed. It doesn’t look as classy as the Audi’s system, but is just as good when it comes to usability and functionality. The menus are easy enough to use and the screen is responsive, although it’s a bit slow to load up at times. Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, which are included as standard, work very well here, too. Sat-nav is also standard on the Ford, unlike in its rival, and while the mapping is a bit plain, it’s easy enough to follow the directions it provides. Wireless charging isn’t standard on either car. It costs £200 in the A1, but just £67 in the Fiesta. The Ford has one USB port behind the gearlever, while the Audi has two: one standard port and one USB-C.

FOR AND AGAINST Lots of standard features, screen is responsive enough, smartphone link Sometimes slow to load screens, graphics are a bit dull to look at

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Which multimedia system is best for music, sat-nav & connectivity?

4L Display Revamped

SYNC3 infotainment works well and has lots of features, including sat-nav, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard. It can be slow to loads new screens at times, though

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Audi A1 Citycarver vs Ford Fiesta Active

Audi A1 Citycarver 30 TFSI

£21,605/£21,605 £8,849/41.0% £12,756 £985/£1,971 £1,609/£2,682 13/£431/£145 N/A

£22,040/£26,555^ £10,976/49.8% £11,064 £1,178/£2,356 £1,651/£2,751 20/£402/£145 £468 (2yrs)

4,068/2,493mm 1,498/1,756mm 3cyl in-line/998cc 123/6,000 bhp/rpm 170/1,500 Nm/rpm 6-speed man/fwd 42 litres/repair kit 311/1,093 litres 1,241/444/1,000kg 10.3 metres 3yrs (60,000)/1yr 23rd/23rd 87/84/64/60/5

0-60/30-70mph 30-50mph in 3rd/4th 50-70mph in 5th/6th Top speed/rpm at 70mph Braking 70-0/60-0/30-0mph Auto Express econ. (mpg/mpl)/range WLTP combined mpg WLTP combined mpl Actual/claimed CO2/tax bracket

8.5/8.6 secs 4.3/6.0 secs 8.4/10.8 secs 121mph/2,400rpm 53.7/40.2/9.8m 43.4/9.6/401 miles 46.3-49.6mpg 10.2-10.9mpl 150/98g/km/23%

Airbags/Isofix/parking sensors/cam Auto box/lane-keep/blind spot/AEB Clim./cruise ctrl/leather/heated seats Met paint/LEDs/keyless/pwr tailgate Nav/digital dash/DAB/connected apps Wireless charge/CarPlay/Android Auto

Six/yes/yes/yes No/yes/£550*/£550* Yes/yes/no/£300 £500/£600/yes/no Yes/no/yes/yes £67/yes/yes

Results

★★★★✩

FORD FIESTA ACTIVE FEB 2020

THE Fiesta Active is cheaper than its rival, but also has more choice in the range when it comes to both trim levels and engines.

BOOT

FIESTA isn’t as practical as the A1 but it’s not by a big margin. Its boot is only slightly smaller, for example, although passenger room isn’t as good. ACCELERATION

FORD was quicker in nearly all of our tests, and the Ford is more flexible in the real world, too, because there’s more torque lower down in the revs.

EQUIPMENT

OUR top-spec car is better equipped than the A1 Citycarver apart from safety kit, which is easily added with an affordable pack.

FORD

ROADTEST

Head to

Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost 125PS Active X Edition PRICE

1st

THE Fiesta Active isn’t as good value as its supermini counterpart, but that’s also true of the A1 Citycarver. If you’re set on one of these two models, though, the Ford just edges it. It’s more comfortable than the Audi and quite a bit more fun – and it’s better value, too. There’s more choice in the range, and although it’s not as practical as the Audi, the difference isn’t enough to be a dealbreaker.

★★★★★

ROAD TESTS

RESIDUAL VALUES

WITH its more premium badge, the A1 holds its value very well, mitigating some of its higher list price a little bit.

4,046/2,566mm 1,483/1,756mm 3cyl in-line/999cc 114/5,000 bhp/rpm 200/2,000 Nm/rpm 6-speed man/fwd 40 litres/repair kit 335/1,090 litres 1,140/500kg/N/A 10.6 metres 3yrs (60,000)/3yrs 16th/20th 95/85/73/80/5 9.7/9.6 secs 4.2/6.5 secs 9.2/12.7 secs 123mph/2,200rpm 53.3/37.2/11.4m 42.3/9.3/372 miles 46.3mpg 10.2mpl 154/119g/km/27% Six/yes/yes/£1,150* £1,540/yes/no/yes £695/yes/no/£1,150* £575/yes/no/no £250/yes/yes/yes £200/yes/yes

AUDI

head STYLING THESE raised-up superminis use clever exterior styling details to make them look more like SUVs, but they aren’t much different from the base-model A1 and Fiesta. The main trick is the wheelarch cladding, which is a different colour to the body and beefed up slightly, matching the sills. A set of more rugged-looking bumpers and a higher ride height complete the look on both.

PERFORMANCE

THE 1.0-litre unit is powerful enough, but it lags behind the Ford’s engine. It’s quieter, but not as energetic and the gearshift isn’t quite as good. EMISSIONS

HIGHER CO2 emissions and lower fuel economy on test mean that the A1 will be more expensive to run than its Ford rival.

2nd

LIKE the Fiesta Active, the A1 Citycarver rides more smoothly than its standard sibling, but its price tag is tough to justify. It’s second here because the Audi is more expensive to buy and run than the Ford, and isn’t as fast or as flexible. But it wasn’t an easy victory for the Fiesta Active. The A1 is practical, with a useful boot and decent passenger space, and the on-board tech is brilliant.

NAMING THESE cars’ names tell you a lot about the way the makers expect to sell them. The Active moniker hints that Ford wants to attract customers with an active lifestyle, or at least those who want one. Audi’s Citycarver name indicates that it’s not rural buyers that will want a jackedup supermini; they’re more likely to want a proper SUV. Instead, this A1 is after those buyers who do a lot of driving around town and like the look.

★★★★★

AEB = Autonomous Emergency Braking. *Part of option pack. ^Fitted with non-UK options. In red = equipment fitted to our test car. Insurance quotes from AA (Tel 0800 107 0680 or www.theAA.com) for a 42-year-old living in Banbury, Oxon, with three penalty points. Residual values provided by CDL VIP Data.

Rivals

Other options in this category...

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Renault Clio 1.3 TCe 130 R.S. Line EDC

Skoda Kamiq 1.0 TSI 115PS SE L

PRICE: £20,795 ENGINE: 1.3-litre 4cyl, 128bhp

PRICE: £21,980 ENGINE: 1.0-litre 3cyl, 113bhp

INSTEAD of a high-riding supermini-SUV, mini-SUV, we recommend a proper supermini. The Clio is ourr current favourite, and at this budget you u can get a top-of-the-range car, with a 128bhp petrol engine and a dual-clutch auto. Lower trims are even better value.

IF you’re set on a small SUV, a Skoda Kamiq makes more sense than the halfway h houses above. It’s more spacious spac and is loaded with kit in SE S L form. It’s better value than either car above as a result, and is nearly as good to drive, with a comfy ride and slick gearbox.

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OUR CARS Living with a Nissan Juke

Nissan Juke

und FIRST REPORT We ﬁnd out if trendy SUV is as good the second time around Design

The original Juke was a style icon, much like the Apple iPod Rich is holding. We’ll be ﬁnding out if the new Mk2 still cuts the mustard

Richard Ingram

Richard_Ingram@dennis.co.uk @rsp_ingram

WHEN the Nissan Juke was launched in 2010, it changed the automotive landscape forever. It was one of the first cars of its kind, and buyers flocked to it just as music lovers did to the first iPod. So, like the updated model that followed the original iPod, this new second-generation Juke had a lot to live up to. Apple provided people with the ability to place thousands of songs in their pocket, in much the same way the novel Nissan introduced the concept of small SUVs to fashion-conscious buyers. As time wore on, the Juke’s compromised packaging and underwhelming driving experience saw it fall behind the competition. Similarly, despite its innovative features and clean white casing, Apple’s first MP3 player was soon surpassed by more modern rivals. But then the iPod became the iPhone, and we all know how well that went. The Juke’s fundamentals haven’t changed in this new version: it is still a style-focused small SUV with a raised driving position and polarising looks. It’ll appeal to many people on style alone, but others will see that bulbous face and head straight for a SEAT showroom. Under the skin, though, this new Juke is completely different. From the all-new CMF-B platform to the turbocharged three-cylinder engine, this second-generation model shares very little with its predecessor. To find out if this is enough to put it back with the best, we’re running a Tekna model on the Auto Express fleet for the next six

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Running costs

Practicality

Performance

36.7mpg (on test)

Boot (seats up/down)

0-62mph/top speed

£59 fill-up/£145 or 27% tax

422/1,088 litres

10.4 seconds/112mph

months. It’s this trim we’d recommend; despite it costing quite a bit more than the entry-level Visia (prices start from £17,395), Tekna models feature Nissan’s Advanced Safety Shield Pack, including a 360-degree camera, blind-spot intervention, rear cross-traffic alert and intelligent cruise control. That’s in addition to the standard model’s fantastic LED lights and DAB radio. Other desirable kit fitted to our Tekna test car as standard includes a set of Bose speakers integrated into the front headrests, heated seats, and a heated windscreen – a blessing during the colder months. A seven-inch touchscreen with sat-nav, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto is fitted to cheaper N-Connecta cars, which means they’re standard on our Tekna, too. Our car’s only optional extra is the two-tone Fuji Sunset Red and Pearl Black paint. Nissan’s lesser ‘Flame Red’ is the only colour available at no extra cost, and while this combination looks great, it makes our car’s design seem a bit ostentatious. We’re now nudging almost 3,000 miles since the Nissan joined our fleet, and are pleased with the performance that this seemingly small 1.0-litre turbo engine offers. On paper it wasn’t as strong as its rivals’ when we pitted it against the SEAT Arona and Volkswagen T-Cross (Issue 1,607), but in reality it’s plenty quick enough for me. The Juke’s manual gearbox and slightly

spongy pedals aren’t as slick as the Arona’s, but the Nissan’s steering is precise and the body control is excellent for a car of this type. The trade-off, though, is a firm and fidgety ride. That’s a shame, because in many other ways this second-generation Juke is easy to live with and largely rewarding to drive. Practicality is vastly improved over its predecessor, too. The SUV’s 422-litre boot swallowed everything my wife and I needed over the Christmas break – including an unjustifiably large haul of presents – and on one occasion even transported five adults and a dog for a windy walk on the beach. Cabin stowage is a bit hit and miss; the door pockets are large

enough, but the cubby between the front seats is barely big enough to hold a mobile phone. I’ve ended up using it as a rubbish bin, although it’s so small that I need to empty it at the end of every journey. But the beauty (or not, depending on your view) of Nissan’s latest Juke lies in its distinctive styling. From the outset, the designers knew this was the original car’s key selling point, and so they needed to do something seriously special to ensure this new version carried the same appeal. Like it or loathe it, you can expect to see a lot more of Jukes on UK roads in the coming months, including ours, because we’ll be piling on the miles.

OUR CARS Otis Clay

Essentials Nissan Juke 1.0 DIG-T 117 Tekna

On fleet since: December 2019 Price new: £22,495 Engine: 1.0-litre 3cyl turbo petrol, 115bhp CO2/tax: 118g/km/£145 Options: Two-tone paint: Fuji Sunset Red with Pearl Black roof (£1,145) Insurance*: Group: 14 Quote: £380 Mileage/mpg: 2,873 miles/36.7mpg Any problems? None so far

Performance Turbocharged one-litre engine under the Juke’s distinctive body has enough power to keep Rich happy

*Insurance quote from AA (0800 107 0680) for a 42-year-old in Banbury, Oxon, with three points.

WE LIKE Our car’s 19-inch alloy

Practicality Nissan has improved cabin space and the 422-litre boot easily swallowed everything RIch has needed to carry

wheels look great and are ﬁtted as standard with Tekna trim. The ride is no worse than on versions of the Juke with smaller rims

WE DON’T The gearbox has a

Cabin While the steering

is good, the Juke’s interior storage could be better

Second opinion

“One item that might steer you away from the plusher Tekna trim is the gargantuan 19-inch wheels. However, having also tried a Juke on the smaller 17-inch rims, we’d suggest the difference in ride comfort between the two is marginal; both are ﬁrm.”

Sean Se Carson Chief reviewer

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long throw, and the pedals are a bit spongy and heavy. Sadly, the automatic ’box is jerky at low speeds, so the manual is still best

Verdict NISSAN has made the latest Juke more fun to drive, but the trade-off is a firm ride. We like the bold styling and extensive kit list, and will find out more over the coming months.

★★★★★

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OUR CARS Living with a BMW 1 Series Mirror, mirror On reﬂection, Pete thinks the 1 Series looks alright, despite the styling dividing opinion

BMW 1 Series

SECOND REPORT Our man thinks beauty is in the eye of the beholder Pete Baiden

Running costs

Practicality

33.5mpg (on test)

Boot (seats up/down)

£54 fill-up/£145 or 28% tax

380/1,200 litres

Pete_Baiden@dennis.co.uk @PeteBaiden

DO you like the way the new BMW 1 Series looks? It’s a question I’ve been asking a lot of people recently, because the car’s styling, especially the grille, seems to divide opinion almost as much as Marmite. I actually think it’s a pretty smart-looking car. Maybe it’s not quite as attractive as a Mercedes A-Class, but I can’t think of many other premium hatchbacks that I’d rather look at on a daily basis. I always admire it sitting on my driveway when I leave the house. It deﬁnitely seems to work better in M Sport trim, with the ﬂared wheelarches, extra vents, sporty exhaust and boot spoiler all adding to its visual appeal. This model simply has a more imposing look than the cars lower down the range, and I can fully understand why the majority of people are happy to pay the almost £3,000 extra that M Sport costs over the base-spec SE. The 19-inch two-colour double-spoke alloys (£595) also suit the car’s personality and look particularly good combined with the blue brake calipers that come as part of the M Sport Sport Plus package (£1,800). My wife is another fan of the way the 1 Series looks. She thinks the car’s design

is modern and she likes the fact it’s much easier to distinguish from other BMWs in the range, whereas its predecessor looked far more generic. But not everybody shares our views. Content editor Jake Weaver was a harsh critic from the moment the 1 Series was released and his opinion hasn’t changed. His biggest gripe is the “comically oversized kidney grille”, but Jake also thinks the shoulder line makes the 1 Series’ side proﬁle look very tall and almost MPV-ish. Our sister magazine evo’s car-design buff Jordan Katsianis is even less complimentary, and in fact I’m not sure his thoughts on the hatchback’s looks are suitable for print. I’ll admit, some of the more recent BMW designs have left me wondering what they were thinking at times, with the grille seemingly getting bigger with each new release. First it was the iNEXT concept, and then the 4 Series concept took things further. Even recent production cars have followed the same suit, with the facelifted 7 Series sporting a particularly large grille. But while I fully agree with Jake that the grille on the latest 1 Series is not

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exactly small, I don’t think it really is out of proportion with the rest of the car. If the model’s looks are up for debate, the same can’t be said about how it performs from behind the wheel: it’s simply fantastic to drive. The more time I’ve spent in the driver’s seat, the more I have loved being there. The car is well balanced, with almost no body roll when turning into corners. As soon as you reach a country lane, it’s hard not to ﬁnd yourself starting to have some fun. The only minor issue is with those larger alloy wheels, which do compromise the ride slightly. It’s not going to cause you any back problems, but those after a more comfy ride might be better suited to more modest alloys. I also ﬁnd the driving position almost perfect. It means you sit quite low, with the cabin wrapping around you and the chunky steering wheel just above your knees. With so much optional kit on our 1 Series, I have found it quite hard to make use of all

the extra features. I love the heated seats and heated steering wheel in these cold winter months, and both seem to reach a nice temperature pretty quickly. They certainly warm up much faster than I have experienced in many other cars. I found the BMW’s infotainment system confusing at ﬁrst, with so many menus to navigate through; for instance, it took me a while to ﬁnd out how to synchronise the climate control. The more time I spend with it, though, the easier it’s becoming – and the set-up looks very modern.

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Living with a BMW 1 Series

Essentials BMW 118i M Sport

On fleet since: December 2019 Price new: £27,230 Engine: 1.5-litre 3cyl turbo petrol, 138bhp CO2/tax: 150g/km/£145 Options: Comfort Pack 2 (£1,500), M Sport Plus pack (£1,800), 19-inch alloys (£595), Technology Pack 1 (£1,500), Tech Pack 2 (£1,500), larger fuel tank (£50), lumbar support (£150), Driving Assistant (£1,000) Insurance*: Group: 20 Quote: £425 Mileage/mpg: 3,307/33.5mpg Any problems? None so far *Insurance quote from AA (0800 107 0680) for a 42-year-old in Banbury, Oxon, with three points.

WE LIKE We’ve had issues with Otis Clay

Apple CarPlay in many cars, but the 1 Series’ wireless system has been faultless. It was easy to set up and connects seamlessly each time

OUR CARS

Fleetwatch All aboard Our Focus ST Estate’s ability to easily stow John’s son’s bike and helmet earned the Ford a thumbs up

Ford Focus ST Estate ON the face of it, an estate car is an odd bodystyle on which to base a hot hatchback, but the more deputy editor John McIlroy lives with our Ford Focus ST, the more he’s being converted to the idea of fast wagons. It was a recent Sunday outing that proved the clincher, when John’s family decided to go somewhere else other than the local park to give his son some winter miles on his bicycle. A regular Focus – any regular family hatch – would find Mac Junior’s Islabike a bit of a struggle to swallow. But the extra few centimetres in the Estate’s boot floor were just enough to slide the bike in, and still leave room for the rest of his kit. And all in a car that feels pretty much as agile as the regular ST on all but the twistiest roads. Less positive, though, is the Focus’s fuel consumption. Some drier roads appear to have added a few ounces to McIlroy’s right foot, and his more enthusiastic driving has slashed economy to around 27mpg. He’s not optimistic that this trend will be reversed any time soon, but John is certainly smiling more frequently these days.

Patterns Frost left marks on the Audi’s bonnet, despite the detergent having been washed off

Ourfleet

Audi Q5 PHEV

Sitting comfortably Pete

has no complaints with the head or legroom in the rear seats

WE DON’T The 19-inch alloys

look great, but they compromise the ride. It’s not uncomfortable, but driving over big bumps sends a shudder through the cabin

Second opinion

“Our 1 Series’ cabin shows how far small cars have come in a short amount of time. It feels almost as upmarket inside as BMW’s larger, more expensive models, such as the 3 Series.”

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Verdict THE styling of our 1 Series polarises opinion, but there’s no doubt about how good the car is on a daily basis. It’s a high-quality hatch that blends practicality and driver engagement.

★★★★★

THIS time of year is a real problem if you don’t like driving a dirty car. A trip to the shops, or home from the local car wash, leaves a clean model splattered with grime. Yet executive editor Stuart Milne reckons his Audi Q5’s Azores Green paint looks as good dirty as it does spotlessly clean. The colour, which he’s dubbed ‘National Trust green’ looks just the ticket parked in a chocolatebox village or in a stately home car park. But Stuart finds the headlamp washers a pain after cleaning the Q5. They fire automatically after a number of windscreen washer jet activations, coating the lights, entire bonnet and screen in water and detergent. Our man has found the detergent dries streaky, which looks awful on an otherwise-spotless car. During a recent cold snap, early-morning frost formed and made patterns on the bonnet, suggesting the detergent was still having an effect, despite being washed off.

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INDEX Audi Q5 Issue 1,606 BMW 1 Series Issue 1,608 Citroen Berlingo XL Issues 1,579, 1,591 Ford Focus ST Estate Issue 1,608 Jaguar I-Pace Issue 1,588, 1,595, 1,602 Jaguar XE Issues 1,593, 1,610 Mazda 3 Issue 1,607 Mercedes E 300 de Issue 1,609 MINI Clubman Issue 1,603 Nissan Juke New arrival Skoda Scala Issue 1,600, 1,611 SsangYong Musso Issues 1,590, 1,598 Toyota Corolla Issues 1,602, 1,610 Volkswagen T-Cross Issue 1,611 Volvo S60 Issue 1,604

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PROTECT YOUR ALLOYS TO HELP THEM SURVIVE FORMER Auto Express Product of the Year winner AlloyGator has added two products to its range both designed to cut waste. The line-up of wheel protectors now starts with the Compact, which caters for 12-15inch rims, while the Inter goes up to 19 inches. The new designs mean less product wastage because the protectors are cut to suit smaller wheel and tyre combinations. Apart from their reduced size, the two newcomers are essentially the same as the Exclusives range, which replaced the original design from the early Noughties. They feature a more rounded profile, which blends in better between the rim and tyre. Plus, the Exclusive’s design doesn’t require the steel retaining clips to be glued. The Exclusives also expanded AlloyGator’s range to fit wheel diameters from 12-24 inches – up from the original’s 21 inches. The rim protectors are available in 14 colours, so they can blend in with the wheel or tyre, or make a styling statement by matching or contrasting with paintwork. The new range starts with the Compact at £59.95, and the Inter costs £79.95. The Exclusives are £89.95. You can install them at home or at a network of fitting stations.

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I’VE just bought a Mazda MX-5 which I intend to use on a few track days in the future. I’m planning to take spare wheels and tyres with me, but my trolley jack doesn’t fit under the car. Do I need to buy a new jack? Harrison Yaxley, E-mail

YOU could get away with running the car up on to pieces of wood or ramps that are specifically designed for low cars. However, for the same cost as the latter, you could easily get a more suitable jack. When we tested these, our winner was Wolf’s Black Jack (above), which is a lowentry design and costs less than £45.

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MY BMW X3 has Michelin run-flat tyres, and it was off the road for four days after a puncture because none were in stock. Why does BMW fit them and why does Michelin have none in stock? Paul Hardy, E-mail

WHILE firms like Michelin and other big makers aim to keep all sizes in stock, there’s a risk that niche, low-volume sizes and specifications may be out of stock in the UK. You could take it up with your BMW dealer, because you are unlikely to be its only customer that requires these tyres.

Clear view on anti-UV bulbs

I WANT to upgrade the H7 bulbs on my 2017 Citroen C4 Grand Picasso. The manual says that I need anti-UV bulbs. How do I know which are anti-UV as none says on the pack, and which of your recommended upgrade H7 bulbs qualify? Joe Brown, E-mail UV protection is included in the ECE Standard R37 so any bulb meeting this has anti-UV protection. This applies to the top four from our last test: the Philips RacingVision, the Ring Xenon130 and Xenon150, plus the Osram Night Breaker Laser Next Generation. It’s in the standard, so this may be why it’s not mentioned on packs.

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PRODUCTS New on the shelves

NEW COOL BOXES SET TO BE news, HOT PROPERTY THIS YEAR deals& NEW PRODUCT Dometic cool boxes Price: from £749 Contact: dometic.com

IF you plan to spend some serious time in the great outdoors this year, or just want more cooling than is usually provided by 12V cool boxes, then you need to check out Dometic’s new range. The CFX3 coolers are serious bits of kit and provide similar levels of performance to domestic fridges and freezers, yet they can run from a car battery, solar panels or the standalone power pack, as well as the mains. The new range also includes an ice maker, which Dometic claims is a world first, plus the boxes can be controlled by using a smartphone app. The range is new for 2020 and kicks off with the £749 CFX3 35, a 36-litre box that can cool down to -22 degrees Celsius. It has three-stage protection to prevent a dead car battery, an easy-to-read colour display and soft-touch buttons for control and monitoring, plus a wire compartmentdivider. Above this is the CFX3-45, which costs £799 and has a 46-litre capacity There’s also a 55-litre version with wire baskets to organise the storage at £899, while the £999 CFX-55IM packs 53 litres and has an ice-maker function. Topping the range is the 99-litre CFX3 100, at £1,149 For simultaneous cooling and freezing there is the dual-compartment, 75-litre CFX3-75DZ, at £1,049; you can also buy a 94-litre version for £1,249. Finally, if you want to run your cooler away from the car, there’s the £738 PLB40. This is a 40Ah lithium-polymer-phosphate power pack that can deliver up to 40 hours of cooling, and can be charged from the car, solar panels or the mains.

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New book celebrates racing Bugatti EB110s THE Bugatti EB110 is to be honoured with a book detailing the inception, accomplishments and technical aspects of its racing variants in massive detail. The 300-page book took three experts seven years to research, and includes more than 350 photos from the firm’s archives, plus historic drawings, data sheets and racing reports. Just 255 copies will be produced – 110 each of the 459 Euro (£390) IMSA and Le Mans editions with silver and blue covers, and 35 Publishers’ Editions with leather covers, at 1,100 Euros (£934). For more details or to order, visit theeb110book.com.

Fixed-cost insurance for vans through VW FOR van drivers who are sick of switching insurance providers every year, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) has a new offer. Drivers buying insurance through VWCV will have their renewal price fixed for three years – unless their circumstances change. The offer is available across the brand’s full range of vans and people carriers, plus the California and Grand California campers. For more info or a quote visit insurewithvolkswagen.co.uk or phone on 0345 877 6464.

“CFX3 coolers provide similar performance to domestic fridges” NEWPRODUCT Clarke battery chargers

Price: from £107.98 Contact: www.machinemart.co.uk

IF you need to revive batteries fast, then Clarke has two new heavy-duty products offering extra charging grunt. The range kicks off with the IBC25, which has eight intelligent charging steps including diagnosis, recover, maintain, and condition. There’s also an alternator check plus a hefty 25-amp charge rate, as well as a 40-amp boost charge. The unit is good for 12V batteries up to 400Ah and costs £107.98. Its bigger brother is the IBC40, which packs a 40-amp punch alongside the same charging modes and alternatorchecking facility. It is good for batteries of up to 500Ah, and costs £131.98. Both of the new products have reverse polarity, anti-spark and overcharge protection.

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ON Saturday and Sunday 7-8 March the Ultimate Dubs indoor show of all things Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT and Skoda returns to the Telford International Centre in Shropshire. The event includes the ultimate in modified show cars, specialist displays, and trade stands with all the accessories and mods you could want, as well as a display of slammed (lowered) VW buses. Advance tickets cost £10 for Saturday evening or £15 for Sunday, and can be ordered at www.ultimate-dubs.co.uk. Know an event coming soon? Contact products@autoexpress.co.uk

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Mini test N PRODUCT NEW NightSearcher Explorer XSR

Price: £33 Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: 023 9238 9774 shop.nightsearcher.com

COMPARED to the Ring, the XSR is positively petite, at 100mm long and weighing a flyweight 57g. We liked its long list of technical benefits, not least the AA-sized lithium-ion battery, which meant an alkaline battery could be substituted if required. We were also impressed with its IPX8 rating, which means it will remain watertight to a depth of three feet. With just 0.75Ah, the battery lost out in terms of capacity, and there was no flashing option or red light, although three solid white beams were offered at 400/40/10 lumens. The main beam was searingly powerful and stunning for distance work, but there’s no zoom. The lowest option was useful for close-up lighting, but the gap between the top two was wide. Surprisingly powerful for its size, and worth checking out if storage is limited.

Rechargable torches help drivers see the light Dave Pollard

IT’S always a good idea to carry a torch in your glovebox, especially during the long, dark winter months. But if the battery’s flat just when you need it, you’ll wish you’d chosen a rechargeable model, especially when it can be topped up from the car’s 12V socket. Modern

torches, typically fitted with one-piece chip-on-board technology, make the best use of the available power and their efficient, long-lasting LEDs. The Ring Zoom 300 won our last test, and here it’s up against the latest rechargeable torch from NightSearcher, the Explorer XSR. We checked the

torches in and outdoors, looked for zoom function and factored in price. The pint-sized Explorer stood up well against the Ring, with a huge light output, although it lacked zoom and had a smaller battery. The Ring stays on top, thanks to its flood-tospot zoom and power bank facility.

TEST WINNER Ring Zoom 300 LED Rechargeable Torch RIT1050

Price: £25 Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: 0113 213 2000 www.ringautomotive.com

OUR previous winner did well in its first defence. We liked its impressive build quality, the useful magnetic base and the high-capacity 2.2Ah battery. This added weight (four times that of the NightSearcher, at 230g) was partially balanced by the lightweight aluminium construction. The 300-lumen main beam was very powerful, if a little down on the Explorer’s, and gave a clear, defined white light all the way from wide flood to narrow spot. The lower beam of 150 lumens was just as effective, especially for under-bonnet work. We’d have liked red and flashing options, but on the other hand, the USB socket hidden under the tail cap was a great feature. So, lots of light, well equipped and still the best value.

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books, games & apps Two Jeeps

Alex Kefford (Self-published, twojeeps.com) Price: £9.99 Rating: ★★★★★

WHAT car enthusiast hasn’t dreamt of taking their car on an epic road trip? Author Kefford and his friend did just that, shipping their UK-spec Jeeps across the Atlantic for a coast-to-coast tour from New York to LA, tackling off-road trails and the best drives in the process. It’s a cracking read, and while it’s a shame the photography is black and white, a limitededition run in colour is available on the website.

Alfa Romeo Arna: The True Story

Matteo Licata (Self-published, amazon.co.uk) Price: £25.29 Rating: ★★★★★

LICATA’S third book is typically well researched and, in this case, tells the story of a car that is perhaps unfairly maligned. It’s good to hear the other side of the Arna’s story, although the assessment is a fair one, and the car’s downsides aren’t totally ignored. Alfa fans will enjoy it, and while it won’t change the minds of those who dislike the Arna, they’ll at least know both sides of the debate.

Turbo Stars Available for: iOS, Android Price: Free Rating: ★★★★★

THIS cute racing game has simple controls and a simple premise: just make your way down a slope, hitting boosts, collecting coins and performing tricks. But progress is slow and the game is littered with ads, while the levels feel samey – even the bonus ones are mere colour swaps. Not really worth wasting your time on.

App of the week Zap-Map

Available for: iOS, Android Price: Free Rating: ★★★★★

THIS is the go-to app for finding EV charging points. Zap-Map shows stations from all major providers and indicates whether they’re in use. Zap-chat is a great feature that lets users share info about the points, but we’d like a better interface.

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PRODUCTS Hose reels

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Every week, we extensively test all the latest car kit from tyres to trim cleaners. Log on to www.autoexpress.co.uk to look through our huge online test archive Tom Barnard

IF you like to clean your own car, a hosepipe is an essential piece of kit. But it can become a nightmare of tangles, leaks and kinks that will lead to frustration and sodden shoes. The answer is to get reel with something that will keep the pipe neatly stowed away when it’s not in use, and has proper watertight connectors. We tried eight of the best, choosing a variety of manual and automatically winding hose reels. All come with attachments to plumb into the most common types of outside tap, along with adjustable spray nozzles and connectors for pressure washers. So which would clean up in our test?

How we tested them WE assessed the hoses on the basis of their suitability for car-cleaning, so checked how easily they could be attached to a pressure washer, as well as assessing any supplied spray nozzles. We measured the flow rate to see how much the reels restricted the

Claber Rotoroll

Price: £89.99 Hose length: 20m Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: www.claber.co.uk

THE Rotoroll is an automatic reel, which looks so stylish that we wouldn’t be embarrassed to have it bolted to the front of our house. It comes ready assembled, saving time and the risk of leaks. We also liked the more controlled rewind speed, so you’re not fighting against a powerful spring. The hose and fittings feel well made too, with good flow rate and anti-kink properties. But unlike the other Claber (top right) it doesn’t seem great value, with the longer Hozelock reel at a fiver less.

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pressure, and how easily the hose unreeled and wound up again. We also awarded extra marks for reels that could be used both wall-mounted and freestanding. Finally, we checked prices online to find the best value.

Verdict A COMBINATION of price, size and features means the FloPro + Cube comes out on top in this test. The looks aren’t for everyone, though, so if you prefer something less eye-catching on the front of your house, spend the extra tenner and go for the Hozelock Autoreel instead. If both those look too pricey and you just want a simple manual reel, then the Claber Kiros is really great value. 1. FloPro + Cube 20m 2. Hozelock Autoreel 3. Claber Kiros

Hozelock 2-in-1

Price: £41.99 Hose length: 25m Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: www.screwfix.com

WE got off to a bad start with this Hozelock, because it needed some fiddly assembling to plumb in the bewildering array of connectors deep inside the reel. But once we’d got it all together it worked well and could be mounted on the wall or unlatched to use freestanding. It had our second-best flow score too, despite a 25-metre hose length. Other than this, though, it did nothing noth better than the Claber Kiros, K which is longer, comes assembled and is £9 cheaper. cheap

Flopro + Cube

Price: £74.99 Hose length: 20m Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: www.mytoolshed.co.uk

BEST BUY THIS reel looks a

bit like a child’s suitcase, but it’s packed with features that make it easy to use. It comes ready assembled with all of the fittings needed to connect to a common outdoor tap, and the flow rate was one of the

Kärcher 20m Auto Reel Price: £134.49

IF this reel were a car, it’d be a Porsche: beautifully made, subtly stylish and with excellent performance. Unfortunately, it’s also the most expensive here by some margin, and you could only really justify it if you were a

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Hozelock Autoreel

Price: £85.00 Hose length: 25m Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: www.hozelock.com

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RECOMMENDED OUR previous Best Buy

2020 highest tested. What made it pip the Hozelock for the top spot was its price, compact size and having the ability to come off the wall mount and be pegged to the ground, so it can still reel in and out without needing to be physically held.

Hose length: 20m Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: www.kaercher.com/uk

professional user or someone who demanded the very best. As you’d expect, it comes ready assembled, and the fittings clicked together beautifully with no hint of a leak. It needed less effort to pull out the hose than any other reel here, and the rewind was well controlled.

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has a high-quality feel that rivals the eyewateringly expensive Kärcher Auto Reel. Even though our test reel had a 25-metre hose length, the flow rate was faster than in some rivals that were five metres shorter. We also liked having the ability to lock the release/rewind mechanism, as well as a dummy coupling to store accessories neatly. On the downside, the unit is huge – this is by far the biggest here, and pulling out the hose is quite hard work.

Kärcher Premium Hose Reel

Price: £75.49 Hose length: 20m Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: www.kaercher.com/uk

THIS manual winding hose is solidly engineered and has some nice features. It uses a ‘docking station’, which is permanently fixed to the wall and has a small cubby under the reel where you can store tools and fittings. If you want more freedom, then the hose can be quickly unlatched. Other than this, the Kärcher’s main attraction was its flow rate, which was the fastest of all the hoses on the test. At this price, though, you can buy a selfwinding enclosed reel.

Price: £32.99 Hose length: 30m Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: www.claber.co.uk

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RECOMMENDED IF you don’t want to

invest in a self-winding hose reel, then you won’t go far wrong with the Claber Kiros. It comes mostly pre-built, with only minimal assembly needed. Wall brackets are also supplied, but the reel can be quickly unclipped if you want to wander around, although the huge 30 metres of hose mean you could wash most of the cars on your street without taking it off the wall. It is easily the best-value reel in the test and has a decent flow rate, too.

Flopro Mini Hose Reel

Price: £24.99 Hose length: 10m Rating: ★★★★★ Contact: www.mytoolshed.co.uk

FLOPRO’S products sit at opposite ends of this test’s results chart, but that’s not to say we didn’t like the Mini Hose Reel. Its poor score here is down to the fact that, with a smaller 8mm diameter hose, the flow is restricted, so it isn’t well suited to the task of feeding a pressure washer. However, if we had limited storage space and wanted a hose we could d just use occasionally to rinse a car, the Flopro ro Mini is neatly selfcontained and small enough nough to stash away under a kitchen sink.

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“Front seats are comfortable – more so even than the ones in my sitting room!” “Has more legroom than much larger cars I’ve owned before.” “Phone connects to Bluetooth automatically when I get in.” “This is my third Jazz; I’ve not had a single fault with any.”

“IT can be a bit sluggish off the mark, especially if the stop-start has switched off the engine.” “I don’t always find the right gear; it’s hard to get a smooth transition between ratios.” “Glovebox and central storage area are smaller than in the previous-generation Jazz.”

“Tyre pressure warning went off, yet tyres were correctly inflated.” “The windscreen wipers miss a large area of the glass, reducing visibility.”

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PETROL Kugas have to be serviced every 12 months or 12,500 miles, diesels every 12 months or 10,000 miles. Ford works on a seven-service cycle, with prices generally set at £155-£240, but the sixth service is £587. Dealers also offer a £159 service, which involves a 30-point check, fresh oil and filter, plus new pollen filter. The brake fluid should be replaced every two years (£60); all engines need their cambelt replaced every 10 years or 125k miles (£349). Coolant is also every 10 years (£69).

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Recalls THE Kuga Mk2 has been recalled six times. In August 2017, trim on 29,904 cars could interfere with the seatbelt pretensioner. A month later, 1,943 Kugas had airbag issues. In January 2018, 15,228 cars were recalled for overheating, which could crack the head; two months later overheating could crack the sump; both these recalls were for 2.0 TDCi Kugas. In July 2018 and September 2019 EcoBoost Kugas had a clutch recall.

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Car hunter £15,000 for a fast club-class car THE POPULAR CHOICE

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Ford Focus ST Estate

SEAT Leon Cupra ST

Audi RS4 Avant

FOR: Hot-hatch handling with estate-car practicality AGAINST: Nicer cabins in rivals, diesel could be quicker

FOR: Solid, swift, ‘sleeper’ status adds appeal AGAINST: Lacks the Audi’s drama and the Ford’s finesse

FOR: Masses of grip, fantastic engine, outright speed AGAINST: Oldest car by some way; big bills possible

OFFERED as both a hatchback and an Estate, the previousgeneration Ford Focus ST gives the choice of petrol or diesel power, with both versions featuring a 2.0-litre engine. The similarities stop there, though, because while the diesel has 184bhp and gets from 0-62mph in 8.3 seconds, the petrol ST produces 247bhp, although its economy won’t match the diesel’s. Both versions still offer sharp handling, however, and whichever one you pick, a 2016 car with around 40,000 miles should be within reach.

THE Leon Cupra has never quite had the following some performance cars muster, and that’s even more true with the ST estate version. Some people may see that as an advantage, because the 2.0-litre turbo Cupra ST has an under-the-radar vibe that may go down well at the golf club. A £15,000 budget stretches to a 2016 model with around 30,000 miles on the clock, and because this is a car from the Volkswagen Group, you’ll also get one of the best infotainment systems in the business.

IF you want to get as much power as possible and aren’t bothered by having a far older car, the second-generation Audi RS4 Avant is well worth considering. You’ll need deeper pockets than with the Ford or SEAT to cover fuel and servicing, but if you’re happy to make that sacrifice the Audi is close to being a golf-club-lugging supercar. Service history and condition should be key when you’re buying, and the RS4 Avant is rare, but we found a tidy 91,000-mile 2007 example for £15,000.

WHILE the ST’s interior isn’t as nicely put together as the Leon’s, it’s livened up by three gauges above the infotainment screen that add a bit of performance-car flair. Trim levels are ST-1, ST-2 and ST-3; the higher the number, the more kit you get.

SEAT’S cabin strikes the middle ground: it’s better finished than the Ford’s, even if the design is rather sombre. Equipment levels are impressive while boot capacity is decent, at 587 litres with the seats up, and 1,470 with them folded down.

DESPITE the cabin being relatively old, Audi’s design knowhow is evident in the RS4. Sports seats, RS badges and a flatbottomed steering wheel make it feel special, even if its boot is the smallest here (442 litres seats up or 1,184 seats down).

AS well as having a 476-litre boot (1,502, seats down), the ST Estate has a another key talent: it’s just as good to drive as the hatch version, with sharp steering, a slick gearbox and a ride that feels sporty without being uncomfortable. If you’re happy with its economy, the petrol model is more fun than the diesel.

IT may lack the delicacy of the Focus, but the Leon Cupra ST’s speed and competent handling impress. Track down a 286bhp ST 290 rather than an earlier 276bhp ST 280 and you’ll get a 0-60mph time of six seconds, which is similar performance to the Audi RS4, but with far more palatable running costs.

THE RS4’s 4.2-litre V8 engine produces 414bhp and 430Nm of torque, and its naturally aspirated set-up gives an addictive engine note. Power is sent to all four wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox, while 0-62mph is dealt with in 4.9 seconds, and the top speed is electronically limited to 155mph.

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£16685 £19135 £19885 £21985 £25485 £29695

ALFA ROMEO Dealers: 55 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimite ed miles

AP ★★★ Giulietta - 4351x1798mm, EURO-NCA DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.4T (120) Super 38.2 9.4 159 15 1.6 JTDM-2 (120) Super 49.6 10.0 123 17 1.6 JTDM-2 (120) auto Super 48.7 10.0 125 17 2.0 JTDM-2 (170) auto Veloce 47.9 8.3 130 N/A Speciale: add £1700 to Super (not 1.6 JTDM-2 autto)

£19975 £20675 £21925 £26395

6.6 5.7 5.7 3.9 8.2 7.1

6.0 V12 (603) auto Rapide AMR

154 158 158 206 128 128

24 34 36 46 22 29

£33010 £39875 £45995 £64900 £33595 £37795

4.0 V8TT (550) auto DBX

19.7 4.5 269 50 158000

2.0T (200) auto AWD Super 30.4 7.2 176 30 2.0T (280) auto AWD Speciale 30.7 5.7 175 30 2.9 V6TT (510) at AWD Q’foglio 24.6 3.8 222 50 2.2 JTDM (190) auto RWD Super 46.3 7.6 138 29 2.2 JTDM (190) auto AWD Super 44.1 7.6 147 30 2.2 JTDM (210) at AWD Speciale 44.1 6.6 147 33 per/2.2 JTDM M AWD S Nero Edizione: add £2500 to 2.0T Sup Stelvio TI: add £2900 to Speciale

ALPINA Dealers: 7 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

D5 S BiTurbo - 4956x1868mm, EURO O-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 (326) auto D5 S saloon

46.3 4.9 161 50 £62000

B5 BiTurbo - 4956x1868mm, EURO-N NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 4.4 V8TT (608) auto B5 saloon 4.4 V8TT (608) auto B5 Touring

25.4 3.5 254 50 £89000 25.4 3.7 254 50 £91000

B7 BiTurbo - 5250x1902mm, EURO-N NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 4.4 V8TT (608) auto B7

24.4 4.2 265 50 121850

XD3 BiTurbo - 4732x1897mm, EURO--NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 (333) auto XD3

44.1 3.6 173 50 £57900

ALPINE Dealers: 7 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

A110 - 4180x1798mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.8T (252) auto A110 Pure 1.8T (252) auto A110 Légende 1.8T (291) auto A110 S

44.8 4.5 144 44 £47810 44.8 4.5 144 44 £51810 42.8 4.4 147 46 £56810

ARIEL Dealers: N/A / Warranty: 1 year/unlimite ed miles

Atom - 3410x1798mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 (245) Atom 3.5

N/A 2.7 N/A N/A £32394

Nomad - 3215x1850mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.4 (235) Nomad

104 Special Issue

N/A 3.4 N/A N/A £33500

2.0 (150) 35 TFSI auto Sport 39.8 9.1 160 26 2.0 (150) 35 TFSI auto S line 39.8 9.1 162 29 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI Sport 39.8 7.5 160 31 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI S line 39.2 7.5 162 34 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI auto Sport 39.8 7.5 160 31 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI auto S line 39.8 7.5 162 34 2.0 (190) 45 TFSI quat auto S line 36.7 6.0 175 34 2.9 TFSI (450) quat auto RS 5 29.7 3.9 215 44 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto Sport 49.6 9.1 149 27 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto S line 48.7 9.1 151 29 2.0 (190) 40 TDI auto Sport 51.4 7.9 144 31 2.0 (190) 40 TDI auto S line 50.4 7.9 146 34 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto Sport 45.6 7.6 162 31 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto S line 45.6 7.6 163 34 Black Edition: add £1850 to S line, Vorrsprung: add d £1100 to Black Edition

DB11 - 4739x1940mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 26.3 4.0 230 50 149770 21.1 3.9 265 50 164090

DBS - 4712x1940mm, EURO-NCAP N//A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 5.2 V12 (725) auto Superleggera

21.0 3.4 285 50 247500

AUDI

£18435 £19975 £19170 £20730 £23205 £25935 ntrast g: add SI

1.0 (116) 30 TFSI SE Technik 49.6 9.9 128 19 1.0 (116) 30 TFSI Sport 48.7 9.9 132 19 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI SE Technik 44.8 8.2 142 24 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI Sport 44.1 8.2 145 24 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI auto SE Technik 44.8 8.2 143 24 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI quat auto S line 38.2 6.2 167 29 1.4 (204) 40 TFSI auto e-tron 141.2 7.6 45 29 2.0 TFSI (300) quattro auto S3 34.4 4.7 185 40 2.5 TFSI (400) quattro auto RS 3 29.7 4.1 214 46 1.6 (116) 30 TDI SE Technik 54.3 10.4 138 19 1.6 (116) 30 TDI Sport 52.3 10.4 141 19 2.0 (150) 35 TDI SE Technik 56.5 8.6 131 25 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto Sport 51.4 8.1 144 25 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto S line 44.8 6.8 165 25 S line: add £2150 to Sport, Black Editio on: add £1350 to S li £595 to S3

£22725 £23880 £24875 £26030 £26425 £32980 £33375 £37020 £46285 £25015 £26170 £26365 £29070 £34240 e, add

A3 Saloon - 4237x1777mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 46th 1.0 (116) 30 TFSI Sport 48.7 9.9 130 19 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI Sport 44.8 8.2 144 24 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI auto Sport 44.8 8.2 144 24 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI quat auto S line 38.7 6.2 166 29 2.0 TFSI (300) quattro auto S3 34.9 4.7 183 40 2.5 TFSI (400) quattro auto RS 3 30.1 4.1 213 46 1.6 (116) 30 TDI Sport 53.3 10.4 139 19 2.0 (150) 35 TDI Sport 56.5 8.6 132 25 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto Sport 52.3 8.1 142 25 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto S line 45.6 6.8 163 25 S line: add £2150 to Sport, Black Editio on: add £1350 to S li £595 to S3, A3 Cabriolet: add £4590

£24445 £26595 £28145 £33545 £39015 £47285 £26735 £28085 £29635 £34805 e, add

A4 - 4726x1842mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 44th 8.6 8.9 8.6 8.9 8.6 8.9 7.3 7.3 5.8

151 150 153 152 161 161 161 161 174

22 22 22 22 24 24 26 28 28

£30750 £32300 £32425 £33975 £34040 £35590 £35585 £37160 £43150

2.0 (245) 45 TFSI quat auto Sport 35.3 6.0 182 35 3.0 V6 (340) 55 TFSI qt auto Sport 31.4 5.1 205 39 3.0 V6 (340) 55 TFSI qt at Allrd Spt 31.4 5.5 204 43 4.0 TFSI (600) quat at RS 6 Avant 22.8 3.6 281 50 2.0 (204) 40 TDI auto Sport 51.4 8.1 145 36 2.0 (204) 40 TDI quat auto Sport 47.9 7.6 155 38 3.0 (286) 50 TDI quat auto Sport 40.4 5.5 183 42 3.0 TDI (349) quattro auto S6 36.2 5.0 203 44 3.0 TDI (231) 45 TDI qt at Allrd Spt 37.7 6.7 195 43 3.0 TDI (286) 55 TDI qt at Allrd Spt 37.7 5.9 195 45 A6 Avant: add £2100, S line: add £336 60, Black Edition: ad Vorsprung: add £16,390 to A6 Allroad d Sport

2.0 (245) 45 TFSI quat auto Sport 34.4 6.2 185 40 3.0 V6 (340) 55 TFSI quat at Sport 30.7 5.3 208 40 4.0 TFSI (600) quattro auto RS 7 23.0 3.6 279 50 2.0 (204) 40 TDI auto Sport 49.6 8.3 149 40 2.0 (204) 40 TDI quat auto Sport 47.1 7.8 158 40 3.0 (231) 45 TDI quat auto Sport 39.8 6.5 186 43 3.0 (286) 50 TDI quat auto Sport 39.8 5.7 186 45 3.0 TDI (349) quattro auto S7 36.2 5.1 205 50 S line: add £2900 to Sport, Vorsprung edition: add d £1950 45/50 TDI S line

£41775 £49455 £58845 £92750 £39375 £41005 £47855 £60220 £54555 £57570 £5460,

£51235 £56200 £97050 £48175 £49805 £53285 £56300 £68680 to

A8 - 5172-5302x1945mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 V6 (340) 55 TFSI quat at Sport 29.4 5.6 217 44 £73320 3.0 (286) 50 TDI quat auto Sport 40.9 5.9 181 44 £71695 LWB: add £3995, S line: add £4820, Bla ack Edition: add £2 00 to S line, Vorsprung edition: add £25690 0 to S line

Q2 - 4191x1794mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 26th 1.0 (116) 30 TFSI Technik 47.1 10.1 135 14 £22720 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI Technik 44.8 8.5 142 19 £24870 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI auto Technik 43.5 8.5 147 19 £26420 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI quat auto S line 34.9 6.5 184 19 £33120 2.0 TFSI (300) auto SQ2 33.2 4.8 192 37 £37370 1.6 (116) 30 TDI Technik 49.6 10.3 150 14 £25010 1.6 (116) 30 TDI auto Technik 47.9 10.5 155 14 £26560 1.6 (116) 30 TDI Sport 49.6 10.3 150 15 £26410 1.6 (116) 30 TDI auto Sport 47.9 10.5 156 15 £27960 2.0 (150) 35 TDI quat auto Sport 47.9 8.1 155 15 £31060 Sport: add £1400 to Technik, S line: ad dd £2250 to Technik, Black Edition: add £1935 to S line, Vorsprun ng: add £899 90 to S li e 40 TFSI/35 TDI

Q3 - 4484x1849mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI Sport 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI S line 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI auto Sport 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI auto S line 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI quat auto Sport 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI quat auto S line

42.2 40.9 41.5 39.8 32.5 31.4

9.6 9.6 9.4 9.6 7.4 7.4

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2.0 (230) 45 TFSI quat auto S line 31.7 6.3 201 33 £39725 2.5 TFSI (400) quattro auto RS Q3 28.8 4.5 222 N/A £52450 2.0 (150) 35 TDI quattro Sport 42.2 9.3 175 25 £34640 2.0 (150) 35 TDI quattro S line 40.9 9.3 182 26 £36440 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto Sport 48.7 9.2 153 25 £34470 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto S line 47.1 9.2 158 26 £36270 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quattro at Sport 40.4 8.0 184 25 £36800 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quattro at S line 38.7 8.0 192 26 £38600 Vorsprung: add £7890 to S line (not 35 5 TFSII manu ual, 35 T I quattro), add £7900 to RS Q3, Audi Sp port Edition: add £4 50 to RS Q3, Q3 Sportback: add £1150 (not 40 TFSI)

2.0 (245) 45 TFSI quat auto Sport 33.2 6.4 193 31 2.0 (299) 50 TFSI e qt auto S line 117.7 6.1 55 40 2.0 (367) 55 TFSI e qt auto S li Cmp 117.7 5.3 55 41 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto S line 39.2 8.1 189 31 3.0 TDI (347) quattro auto SQ5 34.4 5.1 215 42 on: add £1850 to S li S line: add £1975 to Sport, Black Editio Vorsprung: add £14350 to S line

£42185 £49375 £54900 £41420 £55035 e,

e-tron - 4986x1995mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 95kWh 55 quattro auto 95kWh 55 quattro auto Launch Ed

N/A 6.6 N/A 6.6

0 50 £71560 0 50 £82310

Q7 - 5052x1968mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

A7 Sportback - 4969x1908mm, EURO O-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

A3 Sportback - 4237x1777mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 46th

42.2 42.8 42.2 42.2 39.8 39.8 39.8 39.8 36.7

£34790 £36560 £35060 £36830 £36590 £38360 £43975 £68985 £37770 £39540 £38670 £40440 £40515 £42285

A6 - 4939x1886mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.0 (95) 25 TFSI Technik 49.6 10.8 128 19 1.0 (95) 25 TFSI auto Technik 46.3 11.1 139 19 1.0 (116) 30 TFSI Technik 50.4 9.5 126 19 1.0 (116) 30 TFSI auto Technik 46.3 9.4 138 19 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI auto Sport 44.8 7.7 142 25 2.0 (200) 40 TFSI auto S line Comp 40.4 6.5 158 31 Sport: add £1450 to Technik, S line: ad dd £1650 to Sport, C Edition/Style Edition: add £2915 to 35 5 TFSI S line, Vorspru £8050 to Sport (not 25 TFSI), citycarve er: add £2870 0 to 30 T Technik

2.0 (150) 35 TFSI Technik 2.0 (150) 35 TFSI auto Technik 2.0 (150) 35 TFSI Sport 2.0 (150) 35 TFSI auto Sport 2.0 (150) 35 TFSI S line 2.0 (150) 35 TFSI auto S line 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI auto Sport 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI auto S line 2.0 (245) 45 TFSI quat auto S line

£44100 £64600 £34500 £36175 £37750 £35180 £36855 £38450 £39225 £41120 £42070 £48000

Q5 - 4663x1893mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

4.0 V8TT (510) auto Vantage 4.0 V8TT (510) Vantage AMR Hero 4.0 V8TT (510) Vantage AMR 59

24.4 3.6 236 50 122770 24.4 3.9 285 50 149995 24.4 3.9 285 50 164995

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2.0 (245) 45 TFSI quat at Allrd Spt 35.3 6.1 181 28 2.9 TFSI (450) quat at RS 4 Avant 29.1 4.1 219 46 2.0 (150) 30 TDI auto Technik 55.4 9.5 134 22 2.0 (150) 30 TDI auto Sport 54.3 9.5 135 22 2.0 (150) 30 TDI auto S line 51.4 9.5 143 22 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto Technik 55.4 8.2 134 22 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto Sport 54.3 8.2 136 22 2.0 (150) 35 TDI auto S line 51.4 8.2 143 24 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto Sport 48.7 7.4 152 26 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto S line 45.6 7.4 162 28 2.0 (190) 40 TDI qt at Allroad Spt 44.1 7.9 168 28 3.0 (347) V6 TDI quattro auto S4 40.9 4.8 181 41 A4 Avant: add £1400, Black Edition: add £1500 to o S line/S

A5 Sportback - 4733x1843mm, EURO O-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

A1 Sportback - 4029x1740mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A £38945 £45945 £70900 £37745 £39945 £44445 per,

EURO NCAP RATING: At the start of each model is its Euro NCAP crash test safety rating (if available). The maximum score is five stars, although the test has been made tougher over the years, so ratings aren’t comparable between vehicles.

Vantage - 4465x1942mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Dealers: 118 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

Stelvio - 4687x1903mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

VEHICLES BELOW £40,000 VEHICLES OVER £40,000 Electric vehicle: £0 Electric vehicle: £320 Alternative fuel: £135 Alternative fuel: £455 Petrol/diesel: £145 Petrol or diesel: £465 Alternative fuels include hybrids, plug-in After five years, vehicles costing more hybrids, bi-ethanol and LPG fuels. than £40,000 revert to the lower rates. Pick-up trucks: The models listed here pay a flat rate of road tax, at £250 per year.

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20.5 4.2 305 50 194950

DBX - 5039x1998mm, EURO-NCAP N//A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

4.0 V8 (510) auto DB11 5.2 V12 (608) auto DB11 DB11 V8 Volante: add £12000

Giulia - 4639x1873mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 3rd 2.0T (200) auto Super 36.2 2.0T (280) auto Veloce 33.6 2.0T (280) auto Veloce TI 33.6 2.9 V6TT (510) auto Quadrifoglio 27.2 2.2 JTDM (160) auto Super 53.3 2.2 JTDM (190) auto Speciale 52.3 per Nero Edizione: add £2400 to 2.0T Sup

0-60mph

Dealers: 20 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimited miles

Rapide AMR - 5020x2140mm, EURO--NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

AP N/A 595/695 - 3660x1627mm, EURO-NCA DRIVER POWER POS: 65th 39.2 38.2 38.2 36.7 36.7 36.7

WILL IT FIT? Is your garage big enough? Our measurements show the length and width of each model, but remember estate and performance variants may be bigger. DRIVER POWER POSITION: Auto Express’s survey canvasses results from tens of thousands of motorists. Models are rated by drivers, then ranked against others on sale in the UK. The lower the number, the higher the score a model achieved.

ASTON MARTIN

Dealers: 82 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

1.4 T-Jet (145) 595 1.4 T-Jet (165) 595 Pista 1.4 T-Jet (165) 595 Turismo 1.4 T-Jet (180) 595 Competizione 1.4 T-Jet (180) 595 Esseesse 1.4 T-Jet (180) 695 70th Anniv 595C: add £2000

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INSURANCE: Group rating as quoted by the Association of British Insurers. WARRANTY: Next to each manufacturer’s name is the basic warranty period in months and miles for the mechanicals, corrosion and paintwork. LIST PRICE: This is the on-the-road figure and includes VAT, delivery to dealer, 12 months’ road tax, number plates and first registration.

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PERFORMANCE: This is the manufacturer’s claimed acceleration time for a car, and is measured from 0-60mph or 0-62mph (0-100kph), in seconds. ECONOMY AND EMISSIONS: The combined economy and emissions figures in miles per gallon and grams per kilometre of CO2. Figures are the best ones achieved in the latest WLTP tests, but are unlikely to be representative of actual efficiency in everyday driving.

ROAD TAX: When a car is first registered, its first year’s road tax is included in the price. This is emissions-based, and adds anything from zero on electric cars to £2,070 for vehicles emitting over 255g/km of CO2. After 12 months, it’s the owner’s responsibility to tax their vehicle, and the rate depends on the fuel used:

3.0 (340) 55 TFSI quat auto Sport 26.9 5.9 239 41 3.0 (231) 45 TDI quat auto Sport 33.2 7.3 222 41 3.0 (286) 50 TDI quat auto Sport 33.2 6.5 222 43 4.0 TDI (435) quattro auto SQ7 30.1 4.8 246 50 on: add £7700 to S li S line: add £3150 to Sport, Black Editio Vorsprung: add £21200 to S line, add £18700 to SQ7

£58050 £56310 £59350 £76360 e,

Q8 - 4986x1995mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 (340) 55 TFSI quat auto S line 25.9 5.9 246 45 £66710 4.0 TFSI (600) quattro auto RS Q8 20.5 3.8 314 50 103750 3.0 V6 (286) 50 TDI quat at S line 33.2 6.3 222 47 £67010 4.0 TDI (435) quattro auto SQ8 31.4 4.8 235 50 £81740 Vorsprung: add £19895 to S line, add £22500 to SQ8, add £16900 to RS Q8, Carbon Black: add £10,500 to RS Q8

A5 Coupe - 4673x1846mm, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI auto Sport 40.4 8.9 158 27 1.5 (150) 35 TFSI auto S line 40.4 8.9 160 30 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI Sport 40.4 7.2 158 32 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI auto Sport 40.4 7.3 158 32 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI S line 40.4 7.2 160 34 2.0 (190) 40 TFSI auto S line 40.4 7.3 160 34 2.0 (245) 45 TFSI quat auto S line 37.2 5.8 172 34 2.9 TFSI (450) quat auto RS 5 30.1 3.9 212 44 2.0 (190) 40 TDI auto Sport 52.3 7.7 142 32 2.0 (190) 40 TDI auto S line 61.4 7.7 143 34 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto Sport 46.3 7.4 160 32 2.0 (190) 40 TDI quat auto S line 46.3 7.4 161 34 A5 Cabriolet: add £3660 (not 35 TFSI),, Black Editio on: add S line, Vorsprung: add £12850 to S line e

£34790 £36560 £35060 £36590 £36830 £38360 £43975 £68985 £38670 £40440 £40515 £42285 1850 to

TT - 4177x1832mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 (197) 40 TFSI auto Sport 40.9 6.6 155 35 2.0 (245) 45 TFSI Sport 39.8 5.9 161 37 2.0 (245) 45 TFSI auto Sport 39.2 5.8 164 37 2.0 (245) 45 TFSI quat auto Sport 35.3 5.2 181 39 2.0 TFSI (306) quattro auto TTS 35.3 4.5 181 39 2.5 TFSI (400) quattro auto TT RS 30.7 3.7 208 43 S line: add £2150 to Sport, Black Editio on: add £1600 to S li Vorsprung: add £7850 to S line, TT Ro oadster: add £1750

£32165 £33870 £35350 £37100 £45910 £54895 e,

R8 - 4426x1940mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 5.2 V10 FSI (570) quattro auto 21.6 3.4 297 50 128295 5.2 V10 FSI (620) quat auto perf 21.4 3.1 299 50 141295 R8 Spyder: add £8600 to V10, add £86 690 to V10 performance, Carbon Black: add £12900 to V10 perfformance

BENTLEY 153 158 155 161 197 204

24 24 24 24 30 31

£31290 £33090 £32870 £34670 £35700 £37825

Dealers: 23 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimite ed miles

Flying Spur - 5316x1978mm, EURO-N NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.0 W12TT (635) auto

19.1 3.7 337 50 168300

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78.5 24.4 21.6 20.2

5.5 4.4 4.1 3.9

124 265 296 320

50 50 50 50

133100 139600 162700 185800

Continental - 4850x1954mm, EURO--NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 4.0 V8TT (550) auto GT 6.0 W12TT (635) auto GT 4.0 V8TT (550) at GT Convertible 6.0 W12TT (635) at GT Convertible

N/A 20.8 N/A 20.2

3.9 3.6 3.7 3.8

N/A 308 N/A 317

50 50 50 50

140300 158820 177290 213385

BMW Dealers: 192 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimitted miles

i3 - 4006x1775mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 42.2kWh eDrive (170) auto i3 42.2kWh eDrive (184) auto i3s

N/A 7.3 N/A 6.9

0 28 £35350 0 29 £37840

1 Series - 4319x1799mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5T (140) 118i SE 1.5T (140) 118i Sport 1.5T (140) auto 118i SE 1.5T (140) auto 118i Sport 2.0T (306) auto xDrive M135i 1.5 (116) 116d SE 1.5 (116) 116d Sport 1.5 (116) auto 116d SE 1.5 (116) auto 116d Sport 2.0 (150) 118d SE 2.0 (150) 118d Sport 2.0 (150) auto 118d SE 2.0 (150) auto 118d Sport 2.0 (190) auto 120d xDrive Sport M Sport: add £1800 to Sport

47.1 47.1 45.6 45.6 36.2 62.8 62.8 61.4 61.4 60.1 60.1 57.6 57.6 53.3

8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 4.8 10.3 10.3 10.1 10.1 8.5 8.5 8.4 8.4 7.0

122 122 113 113 154 100 100 100 100 108 108 109 109 117

20 20 20 20 36 16 16 16 16 21 21 21 21 26

£24430 £25430 £25780 £26780 £36430 £25480 £26480 £26830 £27830 £26640 £27640 £28240 £29240 £32470

2 Series Gran Coupe - 45261800mm m, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5T (140) 218i Sport 1.5T (140) auto 218i Sport 2.0T (306) auto xDrive M235i 2.0 (190) auto 220d Sport M Sport: add £2500 to Sport

47.1 46.3 37.2 56.5

8.7 8.7 4.9 7.5

123 114 153 110

22 22 34 28

£25815 £27165 £37255 £31355

3 Series - 4709x1827mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0T (184) auto 320i SE 44.1 7.1 124 29 2.0T (184) auto 320i Sport 42.8 7.1 124 29 2.0T (184) auto 320i xDrive SE 42.2 7.6 134 28 2.0T (184) auto 320i xDrive Sport 40.9 7.6 134 28 2.0T (258) auto 330i Sport 41.5 5.8 134 32 3.0T (374) auto M340i xDrive 34.0 4.4 162 38 2.0T hybrid (292) auto 330e SE 201.8 5.9 37 33 2.0T hybrid (292) auto 330e Sport 201.8 5.9 37 33 2.0 (150) 318d SE 58.9 8.4 113 25 2.0 (150) 318d Sport 56.5 8.4 116 25 2.0 (150) auto 318d SE 55.4 8.3 109 25 2.0 (150) auto 318d Sport 53.3 8.3 112 25 2.0 (190) 320d SE 56.5 7.1 110 28 2.0 (190) 320d Sport 54.3 7.1 113 29 2.0 (190) auto 320d SE 55.4 6.8 115 28 2.0 (190) auto 320d Sport 53.3 6.8 118 29 2.0 (190) auto 320d xDrive SE 52.3 6.9 119 30 2.0 (190) auto 320d xDrive Sport 50.4 6.9 121 30 3.0 (265) auto 330d Sport 47.9 5.5 133 38 3.0 (265) auto 330d xDrive Sport 45.6 5.1 136 38 M Sport: add £1500 to Sport , 3 Seriess Touring: ad dd £1500

£32565 £33965 £34155 £35555 £37785 £48555 £37875 £39275 £32575 £33975 £34125 £35525 £33735 £35135 £35425 £36825 £36925 £38325 £40065 £41565

4 Series Gran Coupe - 4640x1825mm m, EU URO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: 54th 2.0T (184) 420i Sport 2.0T (184) auto 420i Sport 2.0T (184) auto 420i xDrive Sport 2.0T (252) auto 430i M Sport 3.0T (326) auto 440i M Sport 2.0 (190) auto 420d Sport 2.0 (190) auto 420d xDrive Sport 3.0 (258) auto 430d M Sport 3.0 (258) at 430d xDrive M Sport 3.0 (313) auto 435d xD M Sport M Sport: add £1350 to Sport

37.2 37.2 35.3 37.2 34.0 49.6 46.3 41.5 39.2 39.8

7.5 7.7 8.1 5.9 5.1 7.6 7.5 5.6 5.3 4.8

146 135 150 136 165 120 132 144 158 162

30 30 30 34 38 31 31 39 39 41

£34755 £36445 £38265 £41305 £47525 £39070 £40950 £44680 £46505 £50040

5 Series - 4936x1868mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 21st 2.0 (184) auto 520i SE 41.5 7.8 129 30 2.0 (252) auto 530i SE 38.2 6.1 135 35 3.0 (340) auto 540i xDrive SE 33.2 4.7 167 39 4.4 V8TT (600) auto M5 24.1 3.4 241 49 4.4 V8TT (625) at M5 Competition 24.1 3.3 241 50 2.0T hybrid (292) auto 530e SE 201.8 6.1 36 36 2.0T hyb (292) at 530e xDrive SE 201.8 6.2 47 37 2.0 (190) auto 520d SE 52.3 7.3 119 30 2.0 (190) auto 520d xDrive SE 48.7 7.3 126 30 3.0 (265) auto 530d SE 45.6 5.7 138 41 3.0 (265) auto 530d xDrive SE 41.5 5.4 146 41 M Sport: add £3000-3300, 5 Series Tou uring: add £2220-£2 530e/M5)

£37640 £42885 £50350 £91600 £98100 £46820 £48820 £38710 £40710 £47300 £49300 00 (not

6 Series Gran Turismo - 5091x1901m mm, EURO-N NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 (258) auto 630i SE 3.0 (340) auto 640i xDrive SE 2.0 (190) auto 620d SE 2.0 (190) auto 620d xDrive SE 3.0 (265) auto 630d SE 3.0 (265) auto 630d xDrive SE M Sport: add £3900-£3640

34.9 31.0 46.3 44.8 43.5 40.9

6.3 5.3 7.9 8.0 6.1 6.0

148 173 127 136 139 148

41 42 40 40 43 43

7 Series - 5120-5238x1902mm, EURO O-NCAP N/A

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£48055 £55410 £43910 £46230 £52360 £54360

8 Series Gran Coupe - 4843x1902mm m, EU URO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0TT (340) auto 840i sDrive 4.4 V8TT (530) auto M850i xDrive 3.0 (320) auto 840d xDrive

33.2 5.2 168 44 £68755 24.6 3.9 226 49 £95850 39.2 5.1 160 47 £73005

2 Series Active Tourer - 4354x1800m mm, EURO-N NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5T (140) 218i SE 44.1 9.3 125 14 1.5T (140) 218i Sport 42.8 9.3 125 14 1.5T (140) auto 218i SE 42.2 9.3 117 14 1.5T (140) auto 218i Sport 40.9 9.3 117 14 2.0T (192) auto 220i SE 38.7 7.4 123 20 2.0T (192) auto 220i Sport 38.2 7.4 123 21 1.5T hybrid (224) at 225xe Sport 100.9 6.7 42 22 1.5 (116) 216d SE 58.9 11.1 104 11 1.5 (116) 216d Sport 57.6 11.1 104 12 1.5 (116) auto 216d SE 57.6 11.1 102 11 1.5 (116) auto 216d Sport 56.5 11.1 102 12 2.0 (150) 218d SE 55.4 9.0 114 15 2.0 (150) 218d Sport 54.3 9.0 114 16 2.0 (150) auto 218d SE 53.3 9.1 112 15 2.0 (150) auto 218d Sport 51.4 9.1 112 16 2.0 (190) auto 220d SE 53.3 7.6 112 21 2.0 (190) auto 220d Sport 52.3 7.6 112 21 2.0 (190) auto 220d xDrive SE 51.4 7.5 120 21 2.0 (190) auto 220d xDrive Sport 49.6 7.5 120 21 Auto: add £1350 to 218i/216d, add £1 1600 to 218d d, Luxur £750 to Sport, M Sport: add £1000 to Luxury

£25565 £26995 £26915 £28345 £29040 £30470 £35300 £26490 £27920 £27840 £29270 £27785 £29215 £30815 £29215 £31065 £32495 £32565 £33995 : add

2 Series Gran Tourer - 4556x1800mm m, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5T (140) 218i SE 40.9 9.5 131 15 1.5T (140) 218i Sport 40.4 9.5 131 15 1.5T (140) auto 218i SE 39.8 9.8 123 15 1.5T (140) auto 218i Sport 39.2 9.8 123 15 2.0T (192) auto 220i Sport 36.2 7.8 129 21 1.5 (116) 216d SE 55.4 11.8 109 11 1.5 (116) 216d Sport 54.3 11.8 109 11 1.5 (116) auto 216d SE 55.4 11.8 107 11 1.5 (116) auto 216d Sport 54.3 11.8 107 11 2.0 (150) 218d SE 51.4 9.6 120 16 2.0 (150) 218d Sport 51.4 9.6 120 17 2.0 (150) auto 218d SE 49.6 9.6 117 16 2.0 (150) auto 218d Sport 49.6 9.6 117 17 2.0 (190) auto 220d Sport 49.6 8.2 118 20 2.0 (190) auto 220d xDrive Sport 47.1 8.0 129 21 Auto: add £1350 to 218i/216d, add £1 1600 to 218d d, Sport: £1430 to SE, Luxury: add £750 to Sporrt, M Sport: add £10 Luxury

£27470 £28720 £28820 £30070 £32195 £28355 £29605 £29705 £30995 £29875 £30900 £31475 £32500 £34180 £35680 dd 0 to

X1 - 4439x1821mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5T (140) sDrive18i SE 42.8 9.7 125 22 1.5T (140) sDrive18i Sport 42.8 9.7 125 22 1.5T (140) auto sDrive18i SE 42.2 9.7 122 22 1.5T (140) auto sDrive18i Sport 42.2 9.7 122 22 2.0T (192) auto sDrive20i SE 40.9 7.7 129 28 2.0T (192) auto sDrive20i Sport 40.9 7.7 129 28 2.0T (192) auto xDrive20i SE 38.7 7.4 143 29 2.0T (192) auto xDrive20i Sport 38.7 7.4 143 29 2.0 (150) sDrive18d SE 56.5 9.3 113 23 2.0 (150) sDrive18d Sport 56.5 9.3 113 23 2.0 (150) auto sDrive18d SE 53.3 9.4 114 23 2.0 (150) auto sDrive18d Sport 53.3 9.4 114 23 2.0 (150) xDrive18d SE 51.4 9.3 125 23 2.0 (150) xDrive18d Sport 51.4 9.3 125 23 2.0 (150) auto xDrive18d SE 50.4 9.4 122 23 2.0 (150) auto xDrive18d Sport 50.4 9.4 122 23 2.0 (190) auto xDrive20d SE 50.4 7.8 123 28 2.0 (190) auto xDrive20d Sport 49.6 7.8 123 29 Auto: add £1350 to 18i, add £1600 to 18d, xLine: add £10 Sport, M Sport: add £1800 to Sport

£28795 £30545 £30145 £31895 £31935 £33685 £33475 £35225 £30545 £32295 £32145 £33895 £32045 £33795 £33645 £35395 £34595 £36345 0 to

X2 - 4360x1824mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 (140) sDrive18i SE 42.8 9.6 125 22 1.5 (140) sDrive18i Sport 41.5 9.6 125 24 1.5 (140) auto sDrive18i SE 43.5 9.6 122 22 1.5 (140) auto sDrive18i Sport 41.5 9.6 122 24 2.0 (192) auto sDrive20i SE 40.4 7.7 128 29 2.0 (192) auto sDrive20i Sport 38.7 7.7 128 31 2.0 (192) auto xDrive20i SE 37.2 7.6 142 27 2.0 (192) auto xDrive20i Sport 36.2 7.6 142 29 2.0 (306) auto M35i 34.0 5.0 157 42 2.0 (150) sDrive18d SE 55.4 9.3 113 25 2.0 (150) sDrive18d Sport 52.3 9.3 113 27 2.0 (150) auto sDrive18d SE 52.3 9.3 114 25 2.0 (150) auto sDrive18d Sport 50.4 9.3 114 27 2.0 (150) xDrive18d SE 50.4 9.2 125 24 2.0 (150) xDrive18d Sport 48.7 9.2 125 27 2.0 (150) auto xDrive18d SE 49.6 9.4 121 24 2.0 (150) auto xDrive18d Sport 47.9 9.4 121 27 2.0 (190) auto xDrive20d SE 50.4 7.7 122 29 2.0 (190) auto xDrive20d Sport 47.9 7.7 122 31 M Sport: add £2000 to Sport, M Sportt X: add £800 0 to M S

£29725 £30625 £31075 £31975 £32935 £33835 £34475 £35375 £44235 £31495 £32395 £33095 £33995 £32995 £33895 £34595 £35495 £35565 £36465 ort

X5 - 4922x2004mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0T (340) auto xDrive40i xLine 3.0T hybrid (286) at xDrive45e xLi 4.4 V8TT (530) auto M50i 2.0 (265) auto xDrive30d xLine 3.0 (400) auto M50d M Sport: add £3500 to xLine

28.0 5.5 235.4 5.6 23.2 4.3 37.2 6.5 34.0 5.2

183 39 165 159 181

46 48 50 45 50

£58620 £63165 £74620 £57640 £72085

X6 - 4935x2004mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0T (340) auto xDrive40i Sport 4.4 V8TT (530) auto M50i 2.0 (265) auto xDrive30d Sport 3.0 (400) auto M50d M Sport: add £3050 to Sport

2.0T (184) auto xDrive20i SE 35.3 8.3 154 3.0T (354) auto xDrive M40i 26.9 4.8 206 3.0TT (510) at X3 M Competition 24.8 4.1 239 2.0 (190) auto xDrive20d SE 42.8 8.0 133 3.0 (265) auto xDrive30d SE 39.8 5.8 154 3.0 (326) auto xDrive M40d 36.7 4.9 167 1600 to Sport xLine: add £900 to SE, M Sport: add £1

£40355 £54295 £77190 £41365 £47420 £53870

List price

104 107 85 85

15 15 19 16

£19185 £20405 £18520 £20285

20 16 21 14 21

£20410 £21660 £23460 £22460 £24025

C4 Cactus - 4157x1729mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 74th 1.2 PureTech (110) Origins 1.2 PureTech (110) Flair 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Flair 1.5 BlueHDi (100) Flair 1.5 BlueHDi (120) auto Flair

61.4 61.4 55.4 70.6 70.6

9.2 9.2 9.9 10.0 8.7

106 106 109 98 103

5.5 4.3 6.5 5.2

181 237 159 181

42 50 45 50

£60320 £76870 £59340 £74335

1.2 PureTech (110) Feel M 51.4 11.5 1.2 PureTech (110) Feel XL 42.0 N/A 1.5 BlueHDi (100) Feel M 51.6 12.3 1.5 BlueHDi (100) Feel XL 51.6 12.9 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Feel XL 50.1 10.7 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Feel M 50.3 11.0 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Feel XL 50.3 11.5 Flair: add £2250, Flair XTR: add £1800 0 to Flair

24.8 21.9 33.6 31.4

6.1 4.7 7.0 5.4

199 248 171 186

50 50 50 50

£74315 £90935 £72315 £87400

Grand C4 SpaceTourer - 4597x1826m mm, EURO-N NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.5T (136) 218i SE 38.2 8.8 140 20 1.5T (136) 218i Sport 38.2 8.8 140 20 1.5T (136) auto 218i SE 37.7 8.9 133 20 1.5T (136) auto 218i Sport 37.7 8.9 133 20 2.0T (184) auto 220i Sport 38.2 7.2 135 26 2.0T (252) auto 230i M Sport 36.7 5.6 135 27 3.0TT (340) auto M240i 32.5 4.6 167 39 3.0TT (410) M2 Competition 28.5 4.4 227 47 3.0TT (410) auto M2 Competition 29.1 4.2 209 47 2.0 (150) 218d SE 49.6 8.5 124 21 2.0 (150) 218d Sport 49.6 8.5 124 22 2.0 (150) auto 218d SE 51.4 8.3 119 21 2.0 (150) auto 218d Sport 51.4 8.3 119 22 2.0 (190) 220d Sport 49.6 7.2 127 27 2.0 (190) auto 220d Sport 50.4 7.1 121 27 2.0 (190) auto 220d xDrive Sport 46.3 7.0 135 27 M Sport: add £1600 to SE, Convertible e: add £3200 0-£3515 xDrive/M2)

£25765 £26765 £27215 £28215 £31340 £33840 £39960 £51150 £53260 £27945 £28945 £29395 £30395 £30715 £32315 £34135 not

X7 - 5151x2000mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 (340) auto xDrive40i 4.4 V8TT (530) auto M50i 3.0 (265) auto xDrive30d 3.0 (400) auto M50d M Sport: add £2500

2 Series Coupe - 4432x1774mm, EUR RO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: 50th

4 Series Coupe - 4640x1825mm, EUR RO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: 54th 2.0T (184) 420i Sport 37.7 7.3 145 31 2.0T (184) auto 420i Sport 37.7 7.5 134 31 2.0T (184) auto 420i xDrive Sport 35.8 7.8 149 30 2.0T (252) auto 430i M Sport 37.2 5.8 136 34 3.0T (326) auto 440i M Sport 34.4 5.0 164 37 3.0TT (431) auto M4 27.7 4.3 227 42 3.0TT (450) auto M4 Competition 27.7 4.2 227 43 2.0 (190) 420d Sport 49.6 7.4 124 31 2.0 (190) auto 420d Sport 49.6 7.2 118 31 2.0 (190) auto 420d xDrive Sport 46.3 7.3 132 31 3.0 (258) auto 430d M Sport 42.2 5.5 145 40 3.0 (258) at 430d xDrive M Sport 39.2 5.2 159 40 3.0 (313) at 435d xDrive M Sport 40.4 4.7 163 41 M Sport: add £1350 to Sport, 4 Series Convertible e: add £6 £3420 (not 420i xDrive/420d xDrive/43 30d xDrive)

£34805 £36495 £38315 £41285 £47505 £62300 £65300 £37430 £39120 £40940 £44730 £46555 £50060 80-

8 Series Coupe - 4843x1902mm, EUR RO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0TT (340) auto 840i sDrive 4.4 V8TT (530) auto M850i xDrive 3.0 (320) auto 840d xDrive 8 Series Convertible: add £7000

9.8 9.8 10.0 10.0 10.9 10.9 10.4 9.2

114 114 114 114 104 104 99 124

22 23 22 23 22 22 22 29

£20460 £22460 £20740 £22740 £23760 £23260 £25260

£26355 £28555 £27925 £30125 £27620 £29820 £31390 £32630

1.5 BlueHDi (120) Feel M 58.9 12.0 126 1.5 BlueHDi (120) Feel XL 58.9 12.0 127 2.0 BlueHDi (150) Feel M 51.4 11.0 144 2.0 BlueHDi (150) Feel XL 51.4 11.0 145 2.0 BlueHDi (180) EAT8 Feel M 47.1 11.0 143 2.0 BlueHDi (180) EAT8 Flair XL 46.3 11.0 146 Flair: add £6035 to Feel BlueHDi 150/1 180 (not XL))

17 17 20 20 22 24

£35370 £36210 £36860 £37700 £37070 £45100

16 17 13 17 16 14

£18515 £20015 £20770 £22370 £19355 £21610

16 17 24 17 17 17 17 25

£24435 £26735 £29735 £25355 £26935 £27635 £29235 £31135

C3 Aircross - 4154x1765mm, EURO-N NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 PureTech (110) Feel 1.2 PureTech (110) Origins 1.2 PureTech (110) Flair 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Flair 1.6 BlueHDi (100) Feel 1.6 BlueHDi (100) Flair

51.5 51.5 51.5 47.3 63.1 63.1

10.1 10.1 10.1 9.2 10.8 10.8

109 109 109 114 105 105

C5 Aircross - 4500x1859mm, EURO-N NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 PureTech (130) Feel 1.2 PureTech (130) Flair 1.6 PureTech (180) auto Flair 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Feel 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Feel 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Flair 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Flair 2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto Flair Flair Plus: add £2200 to Flair

53.3 53.3 49.6 68.9 56.3 68.9 56.3 58.9

10.5 10.5 8.2 10.4 11.8 10.4 11.8 8.6

119 119 129 108 105 108 105 124

Dealers: 128 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

Ateca - 4376x1841mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 32.5 4.9 168 33 £37095

DACIA Dealers: 127 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

39.8 6.6 139 30 £37115 38.7 5.4 139 33 £40815 33.2 4.5 168 37 £49185

AP ★★★★ Sandero - 4057x1733mm, EURO-NCA DRIVER POWER POS: 75th

128.4 4.4 128.4 4.6

1.0 SCe (75) Access 45.7 14.2 130 1.0 SCe (75) Essential 45.7 14.2 131 1.0 SCe (75) Stepway Essential 45.7 15.2 118 0.9 TCe (90) Essential 44.3 11.1 134 0.9 TCe (90) Stepway Essential 44.3 12.4 125 0.9 TCe (90) Stepway SE Twenty 44.3 12.4 125 Comfort: add £1000 to Essential (not SCe Stepwa ay)

i8 - 4689x1942mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 TT/eDrive (275kW) at Coupe 1.5 TT/eDri (275kW) at Roadster

46.9 46.9 45.2 45.2 60.1 60.1 58.6 47.0

10 10 11 10 13 14 13

SpaceTourer - 4428-4597x1826mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

2.0 TSI (300) DSG 4DRIVE

Z4 - 4324x1864mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0T (197) auto sDrive20i Sport 3.0T (258) auto sDrive30i Sport 3.0T (340) auto M40i M Sport: add £1750 to Sport

1.2 PureTech (130) Touch Plus 1.2 PureTech (130) Feel Plus 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Touch Plus 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Feel Plus 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Touch Plus 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Feel Plus 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Feel Plus 2.0 BlueHDi (160) auto Feel Plus Flair Plus: add £2350 to Feel Plus

122 125 106 111 115 112 114

CUPRA

33.6 5.0 164 45 £71840 25.2 3.7 224 50 100220 40.4 4.9 160 50 £76415

42 50 115105 46 50 127105

CATERHAM

3 £6995 4 £7995 6 £9195 9 £8695 8 £9895 9 £11295

Logan - 4450x1740mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Dealers: 5 / Warranty: N/A

Seven - 4376x1841mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.6 (135) 270 N/A 5.0 N/A N/A £26490 1.6 (152) 310 N/A 4.9 N/A N/A £27990 2.0 (180) 360 N/A 4.8 N/A N/A £29990 2.0 (210) 420 N/A 3.8 N/A N/A £32990 2.0 S/C (310) 620 N/A 2.8 N/A N/A £48890 Large chassis: add £2500, factory build d: add £3395 (not 6 0)

1.0 SCe (75) Access 45.6 14.7 117 2 1.0 SCe (75) Essential 45.6 14.7 117 2 0.9 TCe (90) Essential 44.3 11.1 121 8 0.9 TCe (90) Stepway Comfort 44.2 12.4 136 8 1.5 Blue dCi (95) Essential 60.6 11.8 97 9 1.5 Blu dCi (95) Stepway Comfort 57.8 13.0 124 11 Comfort: add £1000 to Essential, Step pway SE Twe enty: ad Stepway Comfort

£8495 £9495 £10195 £12395 £12095 £14295 £400 to

Duster - 4316x1822mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

CITROEN

1.0 VTi (72) Touch 3dr 57.3 12.6 1.0 VTi (72) Feel 3dr 57.3 12.6 1.0 VTi (72) Urban Ride 5dr 57.3 12.6 1.0 VTi (72) Origins 5dr 57.3 12.6 1.0 VTi (72) Airscape Feel 5dr 57.3 12.6 1.0 VTi (72) A’scape Urb Ride 5dr 57.3 12.6 5dr: add £400 (not Touch), Flair: add £790 to Feel

X4 - 4752x1918mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

C3 - 3941x1728mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 72nd

3.0 (354) auto xDrive M40i 3.0TT (510) at X4 M Competition 2.0 (190) auto xDrive20d Sport

1.2 PureTech (83) Feel 1.2 PureTech (83) Origins 1.2 PureTech (83) Flair Plus

26.9 4.9 205 43 £57215 24.8 4.1 239 46 £80110 42.8 8.0 132 32 £44225

9.4 10.0 10.2 10.2

28.5 23.5 37.7 34.4

C1 - 3466x1884mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 59th 28 40 40 29 40 43

51.5 49.4 67.0 67.0

Berlingo - 4403-4753x1844mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Dealers: 196 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

X3 - 4708x1881mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.2 PureTech (110) Flair Plus 1.2 PureTech (110) auto Flair Plus 1.6 BlueHDi (100) Feel 1.6 BlueHDi (100) Flair Plus

CO2 Insurance group

3.0 (265) auto xDrive30d Sport 40.4 5.8 154 41 £50150 3.0 (326) auto M40d 37.2 4.9 162 45 £56790 M Sport: add £2700 to Sport, M Sportt X: add £140 00 to M port

MPG

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

0-60mph

List price

MPG

CO2 Insurance group

£71855 £76935 £83680 £83995 139120 £69565 £72275 £77345 elbase:

0-60mph

18.8 5.1 342 50 238700 18.8 5.3 342 50 275000 18.8 4.8 342 50 262200

Bentayga - 5141x1998mm, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 V6TT Hybrid (450) auto 4.0 V8TT (550) auto 6.0 W12TT (608) auto 6.0 W12TT (608) auto Speed

0-60mph

List price

CO2 Insurance group

0-60mph

MPG 6.75 V8T (512) auto 6.75 V8T (512) auto Extended WB 6.75 V8T (537) auto Speed

3.0T (340) auto 740i 34.0 5.5 161 48 2.0T hybrid (326) auto 745e 141.2 5.2 48 50 2.0T hyb (326) auto 745Le xDrive 117.7 5.1 52 50 4.4 V8TT (530) auto 750i xDrive 26.4 4.0 217 50 6.6 V12TT (585) at M760Li xDrive 21.6 3.8 285 50 3.0 (265) auto 730d 44.1 6.1 138 49 3.0 (265) auto 730d xDrive 42.2 5.8 143 49 3.0 (320) auto 740d xDrive 41.5 5.3 148 50 xDrive: add £2640 to 730d, M Sport: add £4000, lo ong wh add £4000

NEW CAR PRICES

DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Mulsanne - 5575-5825x1926mm, EUR RO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

85 85 85 85 85 85

7 8 8 8 9 11

£10470 £12320 £13510 £14160 £13650 £14440

51.3 13.2 96 11 £16120 51.3 13.2 96 8 £17420 51.3 13.2 96 8 £17885

1.0 TCe (100) Access 4x2 46.3 12.5 138 10 £10995 1.0 TCe (100) Essential 4x2 46.3 12.5 141 11 £12495 1.0 TCe (100) Comfort 4x2 46.3 12.5 140 11 £13995 1.6 TCe (130) Comfort 4x2 43.3 11.1 149 14 £14995 1.6 TCe (150) Prestige 4x2 43.3 10.4 152 13 £16795 1.6 TCe (150) Prestige 4x4 40.0 10.6 162 13 £18795 1.5 Blue dCi (115) Comfort 4x2 57.8 10.5 128 14 £15995 1.5 Blue dCi (115) Comfort 4x4 51.3 12.1 145 15 £17995 Prestige: add £1300 to Comfort (not TCe 100), SE Twenty: add £650 to Comfort (not TCe 100)

DS Dealers: 196 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles DS 3 Crossback - 4118x1791mm, EUR RO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 PureTech (100) Elegance

52.0 10.9 105 14 £22120

Special Issue 105

DS 7 Crossback - 4573x1895mm, EUR RO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 PureTech (130) Elegance 48.0 10.2 120 19 1.2 P’Tech (130) Performance Line 48.0 10.2 120 21 1.2 PureTech (180) auto Perf Line 38.5 10.2 132 23 1.6 PureTech (225) auto Perf Line 36.5 8.3 134 29 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Elegance 54.1 10.8 100 21 1.5 Bl’HDi (130) Performance Line 54.1 10.8 100 22 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Elegance 55.3 10.7 100 22 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Perf Line 55.3 10.7 100 22 2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto Perf Line 42.7 9.4 128 29 Prestige: add £3000 to Performance Line (£4000 to PureT 180/225)

£28140 £31525 £35025 £36485 £29340 £32725 £30840 £34225 £37625 ch

FERRARI GTC4 - 4907x1953mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 24.8 3.5 265 50 200235 18.8 3.4 350 50 240272

Portofino - 4586x1938mm, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.9 V8TT (600) DCT Portofino

26.4 3.5 245 50 166241

488 - 4568x1952mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.9 V8TT (670) DCT 488 GTB 3.9 V8TT (711) DCT 488 Pista 3.9 V8TT (670) DCT 488 Spider

24.8 3.0 260 50 197488 24.6 3.0 263 50 253715 24.8 3.0 260 50 219344

812 - 4657x1971mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.5 V12 (800) DCT 812 Superfast

19.0 2.9 340 50 263033

FIAT Dealers: 96 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

Panda - 3653x1643mm, EURO-NCAP P Zero DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 (69) Pop 49.6 14.8 132 3 1.2 (69) Easy 49.6 14.8 133 4 1.2 (69) Lounge 48.7 14.8 125 3 1.2 (69) City Cross 42.8 14.8 150 6 0.9T TwinAir (85) 4x4 37.7 12.0 166 7 0.9T TwinAir (85) 4x4 Waze 38.2 12.0 165 7 0.9T TwinAir (90) 4x4 Cross 38.2 12.0 166 10 Waze: add £710 to 4x4, Trussardi: add d £600 to Citty Cross

£10255 £10855 £11555 £13655 £15155 £15865 £16755

500 - 3546x1627mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 65th 1.2 (69) Pop 47.1 12.9 1.2 (69) Lounge 50.4 12.9 1.2 (69) Dolcevita 50.4 12.9 1.2 (69) Sport 47.9 12.9 1.2 (69) Star 50.4 12.9 0.9T TwinAir (85) Lounge 52.3 11.0 0.9T TwinAir (85) Sport 52.3 11.0 0.9T TwinAir (85) Star 50.4 11.0 500C: add £2650, Rockstar: add £170 to Star

139 130 108 137 130 123 123 125

7 8 8 8 8 11 11 11

£12375 £14105 £18205 £14275 £15605 £15365 £15725 £17075

500L - 4147x1784mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.4 (95) Urban 1.4 (95) City Cross 1.4 (95) Cross

39.2 13.4 168 11 £17360 38.2 13.9 173 11 £18110 37.7 13.9 174 10 £19210

Tipo - 4368x1792mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.4 (95) Easy 39.8 12.4 166 6 1.4 (95) Street 40.4 12.4 163 6 1.4 (95) Lounge 40.4 12.4 162 6 1.4 (95) S-Design 39.8 12.4 164 6 1.4 (95) Sport 39.8 12.4 164 6 1.4 T-Jet (120) Easy Plus 36.7 9.9 160 6 1.4 T-Jet (120) Lounge 40.4 9.9 163 6 1.4 T-Jet (120) S-Design 39.2 9.9 168 6 1.4 T-Jet (120) Sport 39.2 9.9 168 6 1.6 Multijet (120) Easy Plus 54.3 9.8 136 15 1.6 Multijet (120) Lounge 55.4 9.8 132 15 1.6 Multijet (120) auto Easy Plus 52.3 11.0 142 15 Easy Plus: add £650 to Easy, Tipo Statio on Wagon: add £10

£14905 £15405 £16905 £17905 £19255 £16875 £18225 £19225 £20575 £19510 £20900 £20510 0

500X - 4269x1796mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 71st 1.0T FireFly (120) Urban 43.5 10.9 148 8 £18810 1.0T FireFly (120) City Cross 43.5 10.9 148 10 £20010 1.0T FireFly (120) Sport 42.2 10.9 152 10 £22810 1.3T FireFly (150) Lounge 41.5 9.1 153 14 £22210 1.3T FireFly (150) City Cross 42.2 9.1 152 14 £22210 1.3T FireFly (150) Sport 40.9 9.1 156 14 £25010 Cross Plus: add £2000 to City Cross, Lo ounge: add £1200 to 1.0T Firefly (120) Urban

FORD Dealers: 781 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles Ka+ - 3929x1695mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 (70) Studio 1.2 (70) Zetec 1.2 (85) Zetec 1.2 (85) Active 1.5 TDCi (95) Zetec 1.5 TDCi (95) Active

106 Special Issue

48.7 48.7 47.9 43.5 60.1 56.5

14.6 14.6 13.5 13.5 11.4 11.4

117 117 114 129 99 108

1 2 5 5 5 5

£11300 £12300 £12600 £13450 £14180 £15050

Fiesta Active - 4021x1734mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 55.4 42.8 55.4 51.4 65.7

12.7 10.6 10.0 9.0 12.6

94 134 96 111 93

10 10 13 13 15

£19685 £21425 £20335 £21945 £20855

Focus - 4378x1825mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0T EcoBoost (100) Zetec 50.4 12.1 98 8 £20645 1.0T EcoBoost (125) Zetec 49.6 10.0 97 12 £21145 1.0T EcoBoost (125) Titanium 49.6 10.0 97 12 £22645 1.0T EcoBoost (125) auto Zetec 42.8 11.1 116 12 £22595 1.0T EcoBoost (125) at Titanium 42.8 11.1 116 12 £24095 1.5T EcoBoost (150) Titanium 46.3 8.8 112 16 £23645 1.5T EcoBoost (150) at Titanium 40.9 8.9 120 16 £25095 1.5T EcoBoost (182) ST-Line X 44.1 8.3 120 18 £26395 1.5T EcoBoost (182) Vignale 44.1 8.3 120 17 £27895 1.5T EcoBoost (182) auto ST-Line X 39.8 8.4 127 18 £27845 1.5T EcoBoost (182) auto Vignale 39.8 8.4 127 17 £29345 2.3T EcoBoost (280) ST 34.4 5.7 179 34 £32495 1.5 EcoBlue (95) Zetec 64.2 11.4 92 12 £21095 1.5 EcoBlue (120) Zetec 62.8 10.0 92 14 £21595 1.5 EcoBlue (120) Titanium 62.8 10.0 92 14 £23095 1.5 EcoBlue (120) auto Zetec 54.3 10.2 101 16 £23045 1.5 EcoBlue (120) auto Titanium 54.3 10.2 101 16 £24545 2.0 EcoBlue (150) Titanium 57.6 8.5 108 18 £24545 2.0 EcoBlue (150) auto Titanium 51.4 9.3 110 20 £25995 2.0 EcoBlue (190) ST 50.4 7.6 125 23 £29495 Estate: add £1200, Titanium X: add £1 1250 to Titan nium, ST Line: add £200-£300 to Titanium, ST-Line X: add £2300 0 to ST-Li e (not EcoBoost 150), Vignale: add £4000 to Titanium (not EcoB ost 150)

1.0T EcoBoost (125) Active 49.6 10.3 97 12 £22895 1.0T EcoBoost (125) auto Active 42.8 11.7 117 12 £24345 1.5T EcoBoost (150) Active 46.3 9.1 112 16 £23895 1.5T EcoBoost (150) auto Active 40.9 9.7 120 16 £25345 1.5T E’Boost (182) at Activ Vignale 40.9 9.7 122 16 £29745 1.5 EcoBlue (120) Active 62.8 10.8 92 14 £23345 1.5 EcoBlue (120) auto Active 54.3 10.7 101 14 £24795 2.0 EcoBlue (150) Active X 57.6 9.1 108 18 £27045 2.0 EcoBlue (150) auto Active X 51.4 9.3 110 20 £28495 Focus Active Estate: add £1200, Active e X: add £25 500 to Ac ive, Active Vignale: add £1900 to Active X (not EcoBo oost 150 uto)

Mondeo - 4869x1852mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 (187) Hybrid Zetec Edition 4dr 50.4 9.2 94 27 £26460 2.0 (187) Hybrid Titanium Ed 4dr 50.4 9.2 98 27 £28030 2.0 EcoBlue (150) Zetec Edition 56.5 9.7 116 23 £24450 2.0 EcoBlue (150) auto Zetec Ed 53.3 10.3 123 23 £26040 2.0 EcoBlue (190) at Titanium Ed 51.4 8.9 133 26 £28840 2.0 E’Blue (190) at ST-Line Ed AWD 47.9 9.1 135 27 £32260 2.0 EcoBlue (190) at Vignale AWD 47.9 9.1 135 29 £34560 ST-Line Edition: add £1100 to Titanium m Edition, Vignale: dd £5200 to Zetec Edition, Mondeo Estatte: add £149 90 to EcoBlue, add £1500 to Hybrid

C-MAX - 4379x1828mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 34th £22300 £23950 £22800 £24500 £25195 £26895 £23700 £25350 £24950 £26910

Grand C-MAX - 4519x1828mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 34th 1.0T EcoBoost (100) Zetec 39.8 12.9 133 14 1.0T EcoBoost (100) Titanium 39.8 12.9 136 14 1.0T EcoBoost (125) Zetec 39.8 11.0 134 16 1.0T EcoBoost (125) Titanium 39.8 11.0 136 16 1.5T EcoBoost (150) auto Zetec 32.1 10.2 179 17 1.5T E’Boost (150) auto Titanium 32.1 10.2 182 17 1.5 TDCi (120) Zetec 45.6 11.3 131 17 1.5 TDCi (120) Titanium 45.6 11.3 134 17 1.5 TDCi (120) auto Zetec 44.1 12.4 136 17 1.5 TDCi (120) auto Titanium 44.1 12.4 145 17 Titanium X: add £1900 to Titanium (not EcoBoostt 100 0)

£23900 £25500 £24400 £26000 £26785 £28385 £25570 £27160 £26820 £28460

S-MAX - 4796x1916mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 EcoBlue (150) Zetec 2.0 EcoBlue (150) auto Zetec 2.0 EcoBlue (190) auto ST-Line 2.0 EcoBlue (190) auto Vignale 2.0 EcoBlue (190) at ST-Line AWD 2.0 EcoBlue (190) at Vignale AWD Titanium: add £2000 to Zetec

47.1 43.5 43.5 43.5 40.9 40.9

10.8 10.8 9.5 9.5 10.5 10.5

Galaxy - 4848x1916mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

130 138 134 134 151 151

19 19 23 25 24 25

19 20 19 20 23 23

£33210 £34910 £34860 £36410 £37360 £39070

52.3 13.4 112 14 £16130 52.3 13.4 112 16 £17810

Tourneo Connect - 4425-4825x1967m mm, EURO-N NC P ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 EcoBlue (100) Zetec 49.6 13.4 118 1.5 EcoBlue (100) auto Zetec 45.6 15.0 127 1.5 EcoBlue (120) Zetec 51.4 12.7 118 1.5 EcoBlue (120) auto Zetec 44.1 13.3 130 1.5 EcoBlue (100) Zetec Grand 47.1 13.4 122 1.5 EcoBlue (100) at Zetec Grand 43.5 15.0 133 1.5 EcoBlue (120) Zetec Grand 48.7 12.7 122 1.5 EcoBlue (120) at Zetec Grand 42.8 13.3 135 Titanium: add £1040 to Zetec (not Eco oBlue 100 au uto/ Grand Tourneo)

14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 co

£22330 £23350 £22380 £23580 £23290 £25050 £23760 £25280 lue 100

Tourneo Custom - 4972-5339x1986m mm, EURO-N NCA ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0T E’Boost PHEV (126) Titanium 91.1 N/A 70 N/A 2.0 EcoBlue (105) Zetec 42.2 N/A 164 12 2.0 EcoBlue (130) Zetec 40.9 N/A 164 12 2.0 EcoBlue (130) Titanium 40.9 N/A 164 16 2.0 EcoBlue (130) auto Zetec 39.8 N/A 174 12 2.0 EcoBlue (130) auto Titanium 39.8 N/A 174 14 2.0 EcoBlue (185) Titanium 40.9 N/A 162 14 2.0 EcoBlue (185) Sport 40.9 N/A 164 14 2.0 EcoBlue (185) auto Titanium 38.2 N/A 174 14 2.0 EcoBlue (185) auto Sport 38.2 N/A 174 14 2.0 E’Blue hybrid (130) auto Zetec 42.8 N/A 145 N/A 2.0 E’Blue hybrid (130) auto Titan 42.8 N/A 145 N/A 2.0 E’Blue hyb (185) auto Titan X 41.8 N/A 147 N/A LWB: add £840 (not Sport auto), Titan nium X: add £26 0 t Titanium

£59535 £39959 £41039 £41765 £43204 £43930 £43751 £46391 £46756 £48436 £41554 £42280 £46906

EcoSport - 4096x1765mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0T EcoBoost (100) Zetec 1.0T EcoBoost (125) Titanium 1.0T EcoBoost (140) ST-Line 1.5 EcoBlue (100) Zetec 1.5 EcoBlue (100) Titanium ST-Line: add £800 to Titanium

47.9 47.1 47.1 57.6 53.3

11.9 11.0 10.2 13.6 13.6

116 114 113 104 104

12 12 16 12 14

£30490 £32360 £37510 £40660 £39320 £42470

1.0T EcoBoost (125) Titanium 1.0T EcoBoost (125) ST-Line 1.0T E’Bst hybrid (125) Titanium 1.0T EcoBoost hybrid (125) ST-Line 1.0T E’Bst hybrid (155) Titanium 1.0T EcoBoost hybrid (155) ST-Line ST-Line X: add £1100 to ST-Line

49.6 49.6 52.3 52.3 51.4 51.4

£18650 £20150 £21850 £20150 £21000

10.0 10.0 9.8 9.8 8.9 8.9

103 103 96 96 99 99

1.5T EcoBoost (120) Zetec 42.2 11.6 128 1.5T EcoBoost (150) Zetec 42.8 9.7 126 1.5T EcoBoost (150) Titanium 42.8 9.7 129 2.5 PHEV (225) auto Titanium 201.8 9.2 26 1.5 EcoBlue (120) Zetec 39.2 11.7 109 1.5 EcoBlue (120) Titanium 39.2 11.7 111 1.5 EcoBlue (120) auto Zetec 37.2 12.0 117 1.5 EcoBlue (120) auto Titanium 37.7 12.0 119 2.0 EcoBlue mHEV (150) Zetec 37.7 9.6 111 2.0 EcoBlue mHEV (150) Titanium 38.7 9.6 113 2.0 E’Blue (190) at Titanium AWD 38.7 8.7 129 ST-Line: add £2100 to Titanium, ST-Lin ne X: add £1300 Vignale: add £4700 to Titanium (not 1.5 EcoBlue))

14 14 14 15 17 17

£20545 £21495 £20845 £21795 £21595 £22545

10 14 14 19 12 12 11 12 16 17 20 oS

£23995 £25645 £27245 £33095 £26395 £27995 £27895 £29495 £27445 £29045 £33095 -Line,

Edge - 4778x1928mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 42.2 11.2 153 26 £37020 41.5 9.6 176 30 £43035 41.5 9.6 176 30 £46035

Ranger - 5282-5363x1815-1873mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 EcoBlue (170) Double Cab XL 2.0 EcoBlue (170) Double Cab XLT 2.0 EcoBlue (170) D Cab Limited 2.0 EcoBlue (170) auto DC Limited 2.0 EcoBlue (213) D Cab Limited 2.0 EcoBlue (213) auto DC Limited 2.0 EcoBlue (213) D Cab Wildtrak 2.0 E’Blue (213) auto DC Wildtrak 2.0 E’Blue (213) auto D Cab Raptor

40.9 40.9 40.9 37.7 36.2 36.7 36.2 36.7 31.7

11.3 11.3 11.3 11.4 10.1 9.0 10.1 9.0 10.0

179 N/A 179 N/A 179 N/A 197 N/A 203 N/A 201 N/A 203 N/A 201 N/A 233 N/A

£28625 £29765 £34565 £36305 £35405 £37145 £37145 £38885 £49325

204 209 278 284 268 273 287

42 42 45 45 45 45 46

£39395 £42895 £43645 £47145 £45645 £49145 £49045

117 117 119 106 109 111

13 13 13 13 13 13

£14760 £16260 £17760 £15840 £17340 £18860

Mustang - 4784x1916mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.3T EcoBoost (290) Fastback 2.3T EcoBoost (290) Convertible 5.0 V8 (450) GT Fastback 5.0 V8 (450) GT Convertible 5.0 V8 (450) auto GT Fastback 5.0 V8 (450) auto GT Convertible 5.0 V8 (459) Bullitt 55 Edition: add £2500 to GT

31.7 30.7 23.9 23.3 25.2 24.4 23.9

5.8 6.0 4.6 4.8 4.3 4.5 4.6

HONDA Dealers: 196 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles Jazz - 4028x1694mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 40th 1.3 i-VTEC (102) S 1.3 i-VTEC (102) SE 1.3 i-VTEC (102) EX 1.3 i-VTEC (102) auto S 1.3 i-VTEC (102) auto SE 1.3 i-VTEC (102) auto EX

48.7 48.7 47.9 48.7 47.9 46.3

35.5kWh (136) auto e 35.5kWh (136) auto e Advance

N/A 12.1 N/A 12.3

List price

CO2 Insurance group

0 25 £26160 0 29 £28660

1.0T VTEC (126) S 49.6 10.4 110 15 1.0T VTEC (126) SE 47.9 10.8 110 15 1.0T VTEC (126) Sport Line 45.6 10.9 110 15 1.0T VTEC (126) SE 4dr 48.7 10.7 110 15 1.0T VTEC (126) auto S 47.1 10.2 107 15 1.0T VTEC (126) auto SE 44.8 10.6 107 15 1.0T VTEC (126) auto Sport Line 42.8 10.8 107 15 1.0T VTEC (126) auto SE 4dr 46.3 10.4 107 15 1.5T VTEC (182) Sport 46.3 8.2 128 22 1.5T VTEC (182) auto Sport 42.8 8.2 137 22 1.5T VTEC (182) auto Prestige 42.2 8.5 137 22 2.0T VTEC (320) Type R 33.2 5.8 178 40 1.6 i-DTEC (120) S 62.8 9.8 93 18 1.6 i-DTEC (120) SE 62.8 10.0 93 18 1.6 i-DTEC (120) SE 4dr 64.2 9.9 91 18 1.6 i-DTEC (120) auto S 55.4 10.2 109 18 1.6 i-DTEC (120) auto EX 53.3 10.9 109 19 1.6 i-DTEC (120) auto SE 4dr 55.4 10.7 108 18 SR: add £1845 to SE, EX: add £4705 to o SE, Sport Pllus: add Sport, Type R GT: add £2000

£19305 £19405 £22750 £19905 £20705 £20805 £24150 £21305 £23250 £24690 £28595 £31550 £20655 £20450 £21255 £22325 £27130 £22925 2865 to

HR-V - 4294x1772mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 i-VTEC (130) S 1.5 i-VTEC (130) SE 1.5 i-VTEC (130) auto SE 1.5 i-VTEC (182) Sport 1.5 i-VTEC (182) auto Sport 1.6 i-DTEC (120) S 1.6 i-DTEC (120) SE EX: add £2845 to SE

42.8 42.2 41.5 47.9 47.1 56.5 55.4

10.2 10.4 10.9 7.8 7.8 10.0 10.0

130 132 122 135 137 105 108

19 20 20 27 27 22 21

£20440 £23395 £24205 £27840 £29090 £21790 £24835

1.5 VTEC (173) S 38.7 9.3 143 24 1.5 VTEC (173) SE 38.2 9.3 143 24 1.5 VTEC (173) SE AWD 36.2 9.8 151 24 1.5 VTEC (173) SR AWD 35.8 9.8 151 24 1.5 VTEC (193) auto SE AWD 32.5 10.0 162 24 1.5 VTEC (193) auto SR AWD 32.5 10.0 162 24 2.0 i-MMD (181) Hybrid auto S 40.9 8.8 120 22 2.0 i-MMD (181) Hybrid auto SE 40.9 8.8 120 22 2.0 i-MMD (181) Hyb at SE AWD 38.7 9.2 126 23 SR: add £2480 to SE, EX: add £5180 to o SE (not Hyb brid/7 se models), 7 seats: add £1700 to 1.5 VTE EC SE/SR

£26310 £28170 £29590 £32070 £31590 £34070 £30130 £31990 £33090 t

CR-V - 4600x1855mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

NSX - 4470x1940mm, EURO-NCAP N//A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Kuga - 4629x1883mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

2.0 EcoBlue (150) auto Titanium 2.0 EcoBlue (238) at ST-Line AWD 2.0 EcoBlue (238) at Vignale AWD

e - 3894x1752mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Civic - 4518x1799mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 9th

Tourneo Courier - 4157x1764mm, EU URO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 TDCi (100) Zetec 1.5 TDCi (100) Titanium

MPG

132 132 138 138 134 156

0-60mph

10.9 10.9 10.9 10.9 9.6 10.6

List price

CO2 Insurance group

46.3 46.3 43.5 43.5 43.5 40.4

Puma - 4186x1805mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Focus Active - 4378x1825mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.0T EcoBoost (100) Zetec 42.2 12.9 127 14 1.0T EcoBoost (100) Titanium 42.2 12.9 130 14 1.0T EcoBoost (125) Zetec 42.2 11.0 129 16 1.0T EcoBoost (125) Titanium 42.2 11.0 131 16 1.5T EcoBoost (150) auto Zetec 33.6 10.2 125 17 1.5T E’Boost (150) auto Titanium 33.6 10.2 127 17 1.5 TDCi (120) Zetec 48.7 11.3 125 17 1.5 TDCi (120) Titanium 48.7 11.3 127 17 1.5 TDCi (120) auto Zetec 46.3 12.4 124 17 1.5 TDCi (120) auto Titanium 46.3 12.4 132 17 Titanium X: add £1900 to Titanium (not EcoBoostt 100 0)

MPG

1.1 Ti-VCT (85) Trend 3dr 53.3 14.5 102 5 £16115 1.0T EcoBoost (95) Trend 3dr 55.4 13.8 94 5 £16595 1.0T EcoBoost (95) ST-Line Ed 3dr 55.4 10.6 94 10 £19045 1.0T E’Bst (100) at ST-Line Ed 3dr 42.8 12.4 125 10 £20745 1.0T E’Bst (100) at Vignale Ed 5dr 42.8 12.4 129 10 £23295 1.0T EcoBoost (125) ST-Line Ed 3dr 55.4 10.0 96 12 £19695 1.0T E’Boost (125) Vignale Ed 5dr 55.4 10.0 96 13 £22245 1.0T EcoBoost (140) ST-Line Ed 3dr 51.4 9.0 107 15 £20015 1.0T E’Boost (140) Vignale Ed 5dr 51.4 9.0 107 15 £22565 1.5T EcoBoost (200) ST-2 3dr 40.4 6.5 136 28 £21445 1.5T EcoBoost (200) ST Perf Ed 3dr 40.4 6.5 136 28 £26495 1.5 TDCi (85) Trend 3dr 65.7 12.4 92 5 £17695 1.5 TDCi (85) ST-Line Edition 3dr 65.7 12.4 93 14 £18965 1.5 TDCi (85) Vignale Edition 5dr 65.7 12.4 92 14 £22765 5dr: add £500 to Trend, add £450 to ST-Line/ST, ST T-Line X: dd £1750 to ST-Line, Titanium: add £230 to ST-Line 5dr (n not EcoBoost 140), Titanium X: add £1400 to Titaniu um, ST-3: ad dd £1750 to ST-2

2.0 EcoBlue (150) Zetec 2.0 EcoBlue (150) Titanium 2.0 EcoBlue (150) auto Zetec 2.0 EcoBlue (150) auto Titanium 2.0 EcoBlue (190) auto Titanium 2.0 E’Blue (190) at Titanium AWD

0-60mph

List price

CO2 Insurance group

0-60mph

Fiesta - 4021x1734mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.0T EcoBoost (95) Active Edition 1.0T EcoBoost (100) at Active Ed 1.0T EcoBoost (125) Active Edition 1.0T E’Boost (140) Active X Ed 1.5 TDCi (85) Active Edition Active X: add £1270 to Active

Dealers: 14 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimite ed miles

3.9 V8TT (610) DCT Lusso T 6.3 V12 (690) DCT Lusso

MPG

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

0-60mph

NEW CAR PRICES

1.2 P’Tech (100) Performance Line 52.0 10.9 105 15 £22955 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Elegance 47.1 9.2 109 19 £25120 1.2 P’Tech (130) at Perf Line 47.1 9.2 109 20 £25955 1.2 P’Tech (130) at Ultra Prestige 47.1 9.2 109 22 £30955 1.2 P’Tech (155) at Perf Line 45.7 8.2 121 22 £27455 1.2 P’Tech (155) at Ultra Prestige 45.7 8.2 121 24 £32455 1.5 BlueHDi (100) Elegance 62.7 11.4 97 16 £24270 1.5 B’HDi (100) Performance Line 62.7 11.4 97 16 £25105 Prestige: add £2000 to Performance Line, La Prem miere: add £1500 to Ultra Prestige

11.2 11.3 11.5 12.0 12.1 12.3

3.5 V6TT (581) auto AWD NSX

28.2 3.3 228 N/A 144870

HYUNDAI Dealers: 173 / Warranty: 5 years/unlimitted miles A i10 - 3670x1680mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 MPi (67) SE 1.0 MPi (67) SE Connect 1.0 MPi (67) auto SE Connect 1.2 MPi (84) SE Connect 1.2 MPi (84) auto SE Connect Premium: add £1000 to SE

56.5 56.5 54.3 55.4 52.3

14.6 14.6 17.3 12.6 15.8

N/A 101 101 105 103

7 8 6 11 7

£12495 £13495 £13995 £13995 £14495

1.2 (75) S Connect 46.3 13.6 130 6 1.2 (84) SE 46.3 12.8 126 9 1.2 (84) Premium Nav 46.3 12.8 127 9 1.0 T-GDi (100) SE 47.9 10.8 114 13 1.0 T-GDi (100) Premium Nav 47.9 10.8 115 14 1.0 T-GDi (100) auto SE 49.6 11.4 114 13 1.0 T-GDi (100) auto Premium Nav 49.6 11.4 114 14 1.0 T-GDi (120) Premium SE Nav 46.3 10.2 118 15 Play: £1005 less than SE (not 1.0 T-GDii auto), Prem mium SE add £1050 to Premium Nav (not 1.0 T-GDi auto)

£14175 £15675 £16425 £16575 £17325 £17825 £18575 £18825 av:

i20 - 4035x1734mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 63rd

i30 - 4340x1795mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 T-GDi (120) S 48.7 11.1 123 8 £17355 1.0 T-GDi (120) SE 45.6 11.1 126 9 £19395 1.0 T-GDi (120) N Line 45.6 11.1 126 N/A £20220 1.4 T-GDi (140) SE Nav 44.8 8.9 132 14 £20955 1.4 T-GDi (140) N Line 44.1 8.9 133 14 £21485 1.4 T-GDi (140) Premium 44.8 8.9 132 15 £22755 1.4 T-GDi (140) auto SE Nav 46.3 9.2 126 14 £21915 1.4 T-GDi (140) auto N Line 45.6 9.2 129 14 £22485 1.4 T-GDi (140) auto Premium 46.3 9.2 126 15 £23715 2.0 T-GDi (250) N 34.9 6.4 176 27 £25995 2.0 T-GDi (275) N Performance 34.0 6.1 178 28 £29495 1.6 CRDi (110) SE 58.9 11.0 110 11 £20605 1.6 CRDi (110) Premium 60.1 11.0 110 12 £23175 1.6 CRDi (110) auto SE Nav 60.1 11.2 107 11 £22335 1.6 CRDi (110) auto Premium 60.1 11.2 107 12 £24135 i30 Tourer: add £500, SE Nav: add £77 70 to SE, Prem mium SE: add £1300 to Premium, N Line+: add £200 00 to N Line

i30 Fastback - 4340x1795mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 T-GDi (120) SE Nav 47.1 11.5 125 8 £20665 1.0 T-GDi (120) Premium 47.1 11.5 125 9 £22465 1.4 T-GDi (140) SE Nav 45.6 9.2 132 14 £21455 1.4 T-GDi (140) Premium 45.6 9.2 132 15 £23255 1.4 T-GDi (140) auto SE Nav 46.3 9.5 125 14 £22415 1.4 T-GDi (140) auto Premium 46.3 9.5 124 15 £24215 2.0 T-GDi (275) N Performance 34.0 6.1 178 29 £29995 dd £2000 to N Line (not 1.0 N Line: add £55 to SE Nav, N Line+: ad T-GDi), Premium SE: add £1300 to Pre emium

Ioniq - 4470x1820mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.6 GDi Hyb (141) at SE Connect 1.6 GDi Hybrid (141) at Premium 1.6 GDi PHEV Hybrid (141) at Prem 38.3kWh (136) auto Premium

62.8 10.8 83 11 £22795 62.8 10.8 83 11 £24695 256.810.6 26 12 £29950 N/A 9.9 0 16 £32311

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1.0 T-GDi (120) S 45.6 12.0 124 9 1.0 T-GDi (120) SE 44.1 12.0 127 9 1.0 T-GDi (120) Premium 40.9 12.0 127 10 1.6 GDi Hybrid (141) auto SE 56.5 11.2 90 13 1.6 GDi Hybrid (141) at Premium 52.3 11.6 101 13 1.6 T-GDi (177) auto 4WD Prem GT 34.0 7.9 158 19 64kWh (204) auto Premium N/A 7.9 0 26 Play: add £1050 to S, Premium SE: add d £2400 to Premiium

£17505 £18805 £20105 £22495 £24295 £26830 £38600

£22310 £23810 £25720 £27010 £26700 £28850 £33220 500 to

Nexo - 4670x1860mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 95kW FCV (120) auto Premium SE

N/A N/A

0 39 £69495

Santa Fe - 4770x1890mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.2 CRDi (200) SE 42.8 2.2 CRDi (200) auto SE 40.9 2.2 CRDi (200) Premium 43.5 2.2 CRDi (200) auto Premium 42.2 2.2 CRDi (200) Premium 4WD 41.5 2.2 CRDi (200) auto Premium 4WD 39.8 Premium SE: add £2500 Premium auto

9.4 9.3 9.4 9.3 9.5 9.4

156 161 150 155 156 159

36 36 39 40 39 40

£33450 £35450 £37010 £39020 £38820 £40820

ISUZU Dealers: 103 / Warranty: 5 years/125000 0 miles D-Max - 5295x1860mm, EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 183 205 183 205 183 205 183 205 183 205 183

39 39 39 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 42

£26438 £27548 £27548 £28748 £30788 £31988 £34508 £35708 £40736 £41936 £46203

90kWh (400) auto AWD EV400 S 90kWh (400) auto AWD EV400 SE 90kWh (400) auto AWD EV400 HSE

N/A 4.5 N/A 4.5 N/A 4.5

0 49 £64495 0 50 £69995 0 50 £74995

2.0T (250) 25t auto AWD Prestige 29.2 6.6 179 32 2.0T (300) 30t auto AWD Prestige 28.0 5.8 182 34 2.0T (300) auto AWD 300 Sport 28.0 5.8 182 34 5.0 V8 S/C (550) auto AWD SVR 22.1 4.1 272 48 2.0D (163) RWD Prestige 44.8 9.6 145 23 2.0D (180) 20d auto RWD Prestige 43.4 8.1 152 27 2.0D (180) 20d auto AWD Prestige 40.0 8.4 157 27 2.0D (240) 25d auto AWD Prestige 38.5 6.8 173 32 3.0D V6 (300) 30d at AWD P’folio 36.6 6.2 170 42 3.0D V6 (300) 30d at AWD 300 Spt 36.6 6.2 170 44 3.0 V6 (300) 30d auto AWD S 36.6 6.2 170 44 olio: add £22 295 to RR-Sport: add £2305 to Prestige, Portfo

£44035 £46535 £53980 £75335 £36820 £39080 £41205 £44190 £52290 £54990 £54490 port

JAGUAR

36.2 33.6 36.2 33.6 36.2 33.6 50.7 46.4 50.7 46.4 50.7 46.4

6.2 5.4 6.2 5.4 6.2 5.4 7.6 7.8 7.6 7.8 7.6 7.8

159 167 159 167 160 168 130 138 130 138 132 142

30 33 31 33 31 34 27 28 28 27 28 29

£33915 £39415 £35385 £40885 £38535 £44035 £34555 £36415 £36025 £37885 £39215 £41035

2.0T P300 auto 29.9 5.4 184 42 2.0T P300 auto R-Dynamic 29.9 5.4 184 42 5.0 V8 S/C P450 auto R-Dynamic 26.8 4.4 244 47 5.0 V8 S/C P450 at R-Dynam AWD 26.1 4.4 252 48 5.0 V8 S/C P575 auto R AWD 26.4 3.5 252 49 nvertible: add £ First Edition: add £6470 to R-Dynamicc, Con

£54060 £57060 £69990 £74850 £97280 480

Dealers: 66 / Warranty: 5 years/75000 miles Renegade - 4236x1805mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 11.2 9.4 10.2 10.2 10.2 10.2 8.9

130 139 123 124 154 158 166

10 10 12 13 14 14 15

£22405 £24545 £23745 £25045 £28865 £30165 £31230

XF - 4954x1987mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0T (250) auto Prestige 34.4 6.4 166 32 2.0T (250) auto R-Sport 34.4 6.4 165 32 2.0T (300) auto AWD Prestige 32.6 5.6 171 35 2.0T (300) auto AWD R-Sport 32.6 5.6 171 35 2.0D (163) Prestige 50.4 9.3 124 25 2.0D (163) R-Sport 50.4 9.3 124 25 2.0D (163) auto Prestige 49.9 8.6 135 25 2.0D (163) auto R-Sport 49.9 8.6 135 25 2.0D (180) Prestige 50.9 8.7 131 27 2.0D (180) R-Sport 50.9 8.7 126 27 2.0D (180) auto Prestige 49.9 7.9 139 27 2.0D (180) auto R-Sport 49.9 7.9 135 27 2.0D (180) auto AWD Prestige 44.4 8.0 148 27 2.0D (180) auto AWD R-Sport 44.4 8.0 144 27 2.0D (240) auto AWD Prestige 42.7 6.5 155 33 2.0D (240) auto AWD R-Sport 42.7 6.5 151 34 3.0D V6 (300) auto Portfolio 43.2 6.0 157 41 3.0D V6 (300) auto S 43.2 6.0 157 42 Sportbrake: add £2440, Portfolio: add d £2200 to R-Sport

£39465 £41615 £44890 £46240 £34950 £36700 £36740 £38490 £35490 £37600 £37240 £39390 £39360 £41510 £42685 £44835 £50535 £53035

XJ - 5122-5247x1894mm, EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0D V6 (300) auto Luxury 37.9 5.9 184 50 3.0D V6 (300) auto XJ50 37.9 5.9 184 50 3.0D V6 (300) auto R-Sport 37.9 5.9 184 50 3.0D V6 (300) auto Luxury LWB 37.9 5.9 185 50 3.0D V6 (300) auto XJ50 LWB 37.9 5.9 185 50 3.0D V6 (300) auto Autobiog LWB 37.9 5.9 185 50 Premium Luxury: add £4000 to Luxuryy, Portfolio: add £10 Luxury

£62360 £74280 £74480 £65360 £77280 £83105 20 to

E-Pace - 4411x1984mm, EURO-NCAP P★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 30.1 30.1 30.1 29.7 29.7 29.7 28.1 42.6 42.6 41.7

7.7 7.7 7.7 6.7 6.7 6.7 6.1 9.5 9.5 10.1

182 182 182 185 185 185 199 143 143 146

31 32 32 34 35 35 39 24 26 24

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£33740 £39625 £38930 £35745 £38810 £40930 £45005 £29080 £32140 £30900

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

198 198 211 201 201 213 188 197 202 201

8.8 9.1 9.1 7.2 10.0 9.8

14 14 15 22 18 21

£24290 £25430 £29090 £28285 £25140 £26240

2.0 T-GDi (235) auto GT 1.6 CRDi (134) 2 1.6 CRDi (134) 3 1.6 CRDi (134) auto 3 1.6 CRDi (134) at GT-Line S

30.4 54.3 53.3 53.3 52.3

7.3 10.6 10.6 11.2 11.4

211 137 139 138 142

28 21 21 21 20

£33740 £23455 £25655 £27055 £31755

Stinger - 4830x1870mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 29.4 5.8 217 34 £32475 27.7 4.7 233 41 £40575 40.9 7.3 179 32 £34250

Stonic - 4140x1760mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 T-GDi (118) 2 1.0 T-GDi (118) 3 1.0 T-GDi (118) auto 3 1.6 CRDi (108) 3 4: add £1600 to 3 (not CRDi)

47.1 47.1 46.3 57.6

9.9 9.9 10.2 10.5

137 137 138 128

14 11 11 11

£17755 £19285 £20285 £19985

1.0 T-GDi (118) 2 1.4 T-GDi (138) 3 1.4 T-GDi (138) auto 3 1.6 GDi Hybrid (139) auto PHEV 3 1.6 CRDi (114) 2 3: add £2500 to 2

45.6 10.9 42.8 9.1 42.8 9.1 188.3 9.4 52.3 11.0

124 15 142 16 134 16 34 N/A 109 16

£20795 £24095 £25195 £30695 £22045

38 41 40 38 41 41 39 37 39 38

£39955 £44955 £47955 £41455 £46455 £49455 £44420 £47955 £46455 £49455

16.9 3.7 395 50 £89999 28.8 8.2 208 43 £54350 28.8 8.2 208 43 £56750

N/A 7.6

76.3 11.5 65.7 11.5 65.7 11.5 217.310.8 217.310.8 N/A 7.5

£24590 £26770 £29270 £30265 £31945 £37995

86 100 100 29 29 0

13 13 14 21 20 22 20 15 18 19 18 19 21 20 24 25

£20670 £22770 £26195 £25885 £24770 £28270 £32120 £22350 £24750 £26750 £26250 £28250 £32120 £29770 £30360 £35020

2.2 CRDi (197) KX-1 41.5 8.7 157 24 2.2 CRDi (197) KX-2 41.5 8.7 157 25 2.2 CRDi (197) auto KX-2 39.2 9.1 161 25 2.2 CRDi (197) auto GT-Line 38.7 9.1 161 26 dd £5500 to o GT-Line KX-3: add £4000 to KX-2, GT-Line S: ad

£30250 £33650 £35650 £37450

Sportage - 4485x1855mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 17th 35.7 34.9 34.9 34.9 32.1 32.5 32.1 50.5 47.1 45.6 47.1 45.6 44.8 43.5 42.2 41.0

11.1 11.1 11.1 8.9 9.2 8.8 8.8 11.4 10.8 10.8 11.4 11.4 11.4 11.6 9.2 9.2

179 183 184 184 199 198 201 145 158 162 158 162 153 169 176 182

KIA Dealers: 187 / Warranty: 7 years/100000 0 miles

Sorento - 4800x1890mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 7th

Picanto - 3595x1595mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 66th 1.0 MPi (66) 1 50.4 13.8 128 1.0 MPi (66) 2 50.4 13.8 128 1.25 MPi (83) 2 49.6 11.6 129 1.25 MPi (83) 3 49.6 11.6 130 1.25 MPi (83) GT-Line 47.9 11.6 133 1.25 MPi (83) GT-Line S 47.9 11.6 134 1.25 MPi (83) auto 2 43.5 13.2 148 1.25 MPi (83) auto 3 43.5 13.2 148 1.25 MPi (83) auto X-Line 42.2 13.2 151 1.0 T-GDi (99) GT-Line 48.7 9.8 133 1.0 T-GDi (99) GT-Line S 48.7 9.8 133 T-Line/GT-Lin ne S X-Line/X-Line S: same price as 1.25 GT

4 5 8 6 7 7 8 6 7 10 10

£10195 £11550 £12050 £13500 £13345 £14745 £12720 £14170 £14015 £13845 £15245

Ceed - 4310x1800mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Urus - 5112x2016mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 23.0 3.6 279 50 159925

£12955 £15155 £15695 £16315 £15955 £16940 £17940 o

5.2 V10 (580) auto LP580-2 23.7 3.4 278 50 5.2 V10 (610) auto LP610-4 22.6 3.2 290 50 5.2 V10 (610) at LP640-4 Perform’te 20.6 2.9 314 50 Spyder: add £15540 to LP580-2, add £18072 to LP P610-4, a £9535 to Performante

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

2.0T P300 auto 110 24.7 7.7 2.0T P300 auto 110 S 24.7 7.7 2.0T P400 auto 110 X 25.2 6.1 2.0 D200 auto 110 33.6 9.9 2.0 D200 auto 110 S 31.7 9.9 2.0 D240 auto 110 S 31.7 8.7 2.0 D240 auto 110 HSE 31.7 8.7 2.0 D240 auto 110 First Edition 31.7 8.7 SE: add £3930 to S, Defender 90: due mid-2020

227 227 220 199 199 199 199 199

35 35 43 29 30 34 36 36

£48295 £51750 £78800 £45240 £48695 £51750 £60505 £58860

2.0 Si4 (300) auto S 25.8 7.3 222 41 2.0 Si4 (300) auto SE 25.8 7.3 222 41 2.0 SD4 (240) auto S 33.6 8.3 197 33 2.0 SD4 (240) auto SE 33.6 8.3 197 37 3.0 SD6 (306) auto SE 31.6 7.0 202 40 HSE: add £8200 to SE trim, HSE Luxuryy: add £5200 0 to HSE

£47745 £54425 £47980 £54660 £57360

Discovery - 4956x2073mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Range Rover Evoque - 4371x1996m mm, EURO-N NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 42nd 2.0 P200 auto AWD 30.7 8.0 176 30 2.0 P200 auto AWD SE 30.7 8.0 176 32 2.0 P250 auto AWD 30.4 7.0 180 34 2.0 P250 auto AWD SE 30.4 7.0 180 36 2.0 P250 auto AWD First Edition 30.4 7.0 180 39 2.0 P300 auto AWD 30.3 6.3 186 37 2.0 P300 auto AWD SE 30.3 6.3 186 39 2.0 D150 FWD 44.9 9.9 143 26 2.0 D150 auto AWD 41.9 10.4 149 26 2.0 D150 auto AWD SE 41.9 10.4 149 28 2.0 D180 auto AWD 41.3 8.8 150 29 2.0 D180 auto AWD SE 41.3 8.8 150 31 2.0 D180 auto AWD First Edition 41.3 8.8 150 34 2.0 D240 auto AWD 40.4 7.2 163 35 2.0 D240 auto AWD SE 40.4 7.2 163 37 R-Dynamic: add £1500 to all models, S: add £2700 0-£3150 Evoque, HSE: add £3000 to SE

£35975 £42625 £37175 £43375 £50425 £40375 £46575 £31295 £35115 £41765 £35865 £42515 £49565 £38625 £44825 o

2.0 P250 auto 4WD 30.5 6.7 183 41 2.0 P250 auto 4WD S 30.5 6.7 179 39 2.0 P300 auto 4WD 29.3 5.9 189 41 2.0 P300 auto 4WD S 29.3 5.9 185 42 5.0 V8 S/C P550 at SVAutobiog 23.0 4.3 270 50 2.0 D180 auto 4WD 42.1 8.5 152 31 2.0 D180 auto 4WD S 42.1 8.5 157 35 2.0 D240 auto 4WD 40.7 7.0 176 39 2.0 D240 auto 4WD S 40.7 7.0 171 39 3.0 D275 auto 4WD 37.8 6.7 178 44 3.0 D275 auto 4WD S 37.8 6.7 173 44 3.0 D300 auto 4WD 37.8 6.3 178 44 3.0 D300 auto 4WD S 37.8 6.3 173 44 R-Dynamic: add £2420 (not SVAutobiography), SE: add £ S, HSE: add £5430 to SE

£46355 £51695 £48855 £54195 £86685 £45260 £50600 £48250 £53590 £49850 £55190 £51100 £56440 850 to

Range Rover Sport - 4879x2073mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 P300 auto HSE 26.1 7.0 217 44 3.0 P400 auto HSE 27.4 5.9 209 44 3.0 P400 auto HST 27.4 5.9 209 44 5.0 V8 S/C P525 at Autobiog Dyn 20.2 5.0 288 49 5.0 V8 S/C P575 auto SVR 18.9 4.3 290 50 2.0 P400e auto PHEV HSE 86.9 6.3 69 44 2.0 P400e at PHEV Autobiog Dyn 86.9 6.3 69 44 3.0 SDV6 (306) auto HSE 32.0 6.8 195 43 3.0 SDV6 (306) at Autobiog Dyn 31.8 6.8 200 43 4.4 SDV8 (339) at Autobiog Dyn 27.0 6.7 242 47 Dynamic: add £3000 to P400e HSE, £5 5300 to SDV6 6 HSE

£64725 £70695 £81250 £92410 101810 £72785 £86385 £68155 £85955 £92880

Range Rover - 4999-5199x2073mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 5.0 V8 S/C (525) auto Autobiog 20.0 5.1 294 N/A 110235 5.0 V8 S/C (565) auto SVAuto Dyn 18.9 5.1 298 N/A 142285 2.0 P400e (404) PHEV auto Vogue 85.1 6.4 72 50 £89300 2.0 P400e (404) PHV at LWB SVAt 81.9 6.5 75 50 168570 3.0 SDV6 (275) auto Vogue 31.5 7.4 199 42 £83655 4.4 SDV8 (339) auto Vogue 26.6 6.8 243 48 £89970 4.4 SDV8 (339) at LWB SVAutobio 26.2 7.0 247 N/A 169355 Vogue SE: add £6500 to P400e Vogue e, add £6600 0 to SDV /SDV8 Vogue, Autobiography: add £19000 to SDV6/SDV V8 Vogu , add £18900 to P400e Vogue, LWB: add £7 7200 to V8 S//C (525)/ DV8 Autobiography, add £7120 to P400e Autobiography, add £35450 to V8 S/C (565)

Dealers: 51 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles 157590 182910 210115 d

Aventador - 4780x2030mm, EURO-N NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.5 V12 (700) auto LP700-4 6.5 V12 (750) auto LP750-4 SV Roadster: add £28800

Defender - 5018x2008mm, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

LEXUS

Huracan - 4459x1924mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Rio - 4065x1993mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 36th 1.25 MPi (83) 1 46.3 12.5 125 6 1.25 MPi (83) 2 51.4 12.5 126 4 1.4 MPi (98) 2 46.3 11.8 138 5 1.4 MPi (98) auto 2 42.8 12.5 151 5 1.0 T-GDi (99) 2 48.7 10.3 132 8 1.0 T-GDi (118) GT-Line 47.1 9.8 137 9 1.0 T-GDi (118) auto GT-Line 44.8 10.1 142 9 3: add £1700 to 2 (not 1.4 manual), GT T-Line S: add d £1495 GT-Line manual

LAMBORGHINI Dealers: 7 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimited d miles

4.0T V8 FSI (650) auto

2.0T P200 auto AWD 5+2st 30.8 8.6 179 31 £36775 2.0T P200 auto AWD S 5+2st 30.8 8.6 179 31 £39925 2.0T P200 auto AWD SE 5+2st 30.2 8.6 182 33 £42475 2.0T P250 auto AWD S 5+2st 30.5 7.1 182 37 £41375 2.0T P250 auto AWD SE 5+2st 29.9 7.1 185 39 £43925 2.0 D150 FWD 5st 47.8 10.5 140 26 £31575 2.0 D150 FWD S 5st 47.8 10.5 140 27 £34425 2.0 D150 FWD SE 5st 42.0 10.5 149 29 £36925 2.0 D180 auto AWD S 5+2st 40.4 9.4 150 31 £40325 2.0 D180 auto AWD SE 5+2st 39.6 9.4 155 33 £43175 2.0 D240 auto AWD S 5+2st 39.6 7.4 168 38 £42475 2.0 D240 auto AWD SE 5+2st 38.8 7.4 175 39 £45325 R Dynamic: add £1500 to S, SE, HSE, HSE: add £3150 to P2 0 SE, add £2850 to D180 SE, add £2150 to D240 SE, D15 50 AWD 5+2st: add £4850 to D150 FWD 5st

Range Rover Velar - 4803x2041mm,, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 11 12 13 14 15 28

1.6 GDi (130) 1 1.6 GDi (130) 2 1.6 GDi (130) Platinum Edition 1.6 T-GDi (174) GT-Line 1.6 T-GDi (174) AWD 2 1.6 T-GDi (174) auto AWD GT-Line 1.6 T-GDi (174) at AWD GT-Line S 1.6 CRDi (114) 48v 1 1.6 CRDi (134) 48v 2 1.6 CRDi (134) 48v GT-Line 1.6 CRDi (134) 48v auto 2 1.6 CRDi (134) 48v auto GT-Line 1.6 CRDi (134) 48v auto GT-Line S 1.6 CRDi (134) 48v at AWD GT-Line 2.0 CRDi (182) 48v at AWD GT-Line 2.0 CRDi (182) 48v at AWD GT-Li S 4: add £1750 to GT-Line

LAND ROVER Dealers: 130 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimited miles URO-NCAP ★★★★★ Discovery Sport - 4597x2069mm, EU DRIVER POWER POS: 24th

0 34 £33795

Niro - 4355x1805mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 2nd 1.6 GDi Hybrid (139) auto 2 1.6 GDi Hybrid (139) auto 3 1.6 GDi Hybrid (139) auto 4 1.6 GDi Hybrid (139) auto PHEV 2 1.6 GDi Hybrid (139) auto PHEV 3 64kWh (201) First Edition e-Niro

0-60mph

List price

MPG

CO2 Insurance group 132 130 133 142 111 110

Optima Sportswagon - 4855x1860m mm, EURO-N NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

64kWh (201) First Edition £26100 £33700 £27100 £29900 £35700 to

Grand Cherokee - 4822x1943mm, EU URO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.2 V8 S/C (710) auto Trackhawk 3.0 CRD V6 (250) auto Overland 3.0 CRD V6 (250) auto Summit

45.6 44.8 42.8 39.3 56.5 54.3

Soul EV - 4195x1800mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Wrangler - 4822x1943mm, EURO-NC CAP ★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 27.2 26.9 25.7 25.9 25.7 25.7 30.7 30.1 30.1 29.4

£18850 £21460 £22260 £23360 £27890 £25995 £29995 £20100 £22710 £23980 £25080

XCeed - 4395x1826mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.4 MultiAir (140) Longitude 37.2 9.9 149 17 1.4 MultiAir (170) at 4WD Limited 31.4 9.5 190 21 1.6 Multijet (120) Longitude 45.6 11.0 134 17 2.0 Multijet (140) 4WD Longitude 40.4 10.1 159 18 2.0 Multijet (170) at 4WD Limited 40.9 9.5 155 23 dd £300 Night Eagle: add £1500 to Longitude,, Limited: ad Longitude, Trailhawk: add £1330 to Multijet 170 Limited

2.0 GME (272) auto Sport 2dr 2.0 GME (272) auto Sahara 2dr 2.0 GME (272) auto Rubicon 2dr 2.0 GME (272) auto Sport 4dr 2.0 GME (272) auto Sahara 4dr 2.0 GME (272) auto Rubicon 4dr 2.2 Multijet (200) auto Sahara 2dr 2.2 M’jet (200) auto Rubicon 2dr 2.2 Multijet (200) auto Sahara 4dr 2.2 M’jet (200) auto Rubicon 4dr Overland: add £2300 to Sahara

1.4 T-GDi (138) GT-Line 1.4 T-GDi (138) auto GT-Line 1.4 T-GDi (138) auto GT-Line S 1.6 T-GDi (201) auto GT 1.6 CRDi (134) GT-Line 1.6 CRDi (134) auto GT-Line

2.0 T-GDi (242) auto GT-Line 3.3 T-GDi (361) auto GT S 2.2 CRDi (197) auto GT-Line GT-Line S: add £3500 to GT-Line

F-Type - 4470x1923mm, EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

41.5 40.9 49.6 48.7 40.4 40.7 37.7

1.0 T-GDi (118) 2 50.4 10.9 127 8 1.0 T-GDi (118) 3 48.7 10.7 131 15 1.4 T-GDi (138) 3 46.3 8.6 140 14 1.4 T-GDi (138) auto 3 44.8 8.9 144 9 1.4 T-GDi (138) auto GT-Line S 43.5 8.9 148 15 1.6 T-GDi (201) GT 48.7 7.2 155 22 1.6 GDi Hyb (139) auto PHEV 3 SW N/A N/A N/A N/A 1.6 CRDi (114) 2 58.9 10.6 126 11 1.6 CRDi (114) 3 58.9 10.5 126 14 1.6 CRDi (134) GT-Line 57.6 9.8 129 14 1.6 CRDi (134) auto GT-Line 57.6 10.5 129 12 GT-Line: add £830 to 3, Sportswagon:: add £1000

ProCeed - 4605x1800mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

F-Pace - 4731x2070mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.0T GSE (120) Longitude 1.3T GSE (150) auto Longitude 1.6 Multijet (120) Longitude 1.6 Multijet (120) auto Longitude 2.0 Multijet (140) Limited 4WD 2.0 M’jet (140) auto Limited 4WD 2.0 M’jet (170) at Trailhawk 4WD Limited: add £3100 to Longitude

0-60mph

List price

MPG

CO2 Insurance group

£33965 £32895 £36050 £38200 £31650 £34715 £33745 £36800 £38920 £39625 £41745

Compass - 4394x1874mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Dealers: 84 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimite ed miles XE - 4678x1967mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

2.0 P200 auto AWD 2.0 P200 auto AWD S 2.0 P200 auto AWD SE 2.0 P250 auto AWD 2.0 P250 auto AWD S 2.0 P250 auto AWD SE 2.0 P300 auto AWD SE 2.0 D150 FWD 2.0 D150 FWD S 2.0 D150 AWD

26 24 26 26 29 29 29 29 29 35 35

JEEP

1.9D (164) Eiger Double Cab 40.4 12.7 1.9D (164) auto Eiger Double Cab 36.2 13.0 1.9D (164) Yukon Double Cab 40.4 12.7 1.9D (164) at Yukon Double Cab 36.2 13.0 1.9D (164) Utah Double Cab 40.4 12.7 1.9D (164) auto Utah Double Cab 36.2 13.0 1.9D (164) Blade Double Cab 40.4 12.7 1.9D (164) auto Blade Double Cab 36.2 13.0 1.9D (164) XTR Double Cab 40.4 12.7 1.9D (164) auto XTR Double Cab 36.2 13.0 1.9D (164) Arctic Trucks AT35 40.4 12.7 Arctic Trucks AT35 auto: same price ass manual

2.0T P250 auto S 2.0T P300 auto AWD S 2.0T P250 auto SE 2.0T P300 auto AWD SE 2.0T P250 auto HSE 2.0T P300 auto AWD HSE 2.0 D180 auto S 2.0 D180 auto AWD S 2.0 D180 auto SE 2.0 D180 auto AWD SE 2.0 D180 auto HSE 2.0 D180 auto AWD HSE R-Dynamic: add £1590

146 158 158 158 149 149 158 158 158 182 182

I-Pace - 4682x2011mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Tucson - 4475x1850mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 23rd 1.6 GDi (132) S Connect 35.3 11.5 152 13 1.6 GDi (132) SE Nav 34.9 11.5 156 13 1.6 T-GDi (177) SE Nav 35.3 9.2 168 20 1.6 T-GDi (177) auto SE Nav 36.2 8.9 152 20 1.6 CRDi (115) 48v SE Nav 51.4 11.2 114 13 1.6 CRDi (136) 48v DCT SE Nav 50.4 11.8 115 15 2.0 CRDi (185) 48v auto Prem 4WD 40.9 9.5 147 24 N Line: add £525 to SE Nav (not 1.6 GD Di), Premium m: add £ SE Nav, Premium SE: add £2000 to Pre emium (not 1.6 GDi)

0-60mph

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

0-60mph

Kona - 4165x1800mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

2.0 D150 AWD S 41.7 10.1 2.0 D150 auto AWD 39.4 9.9 2.0 D150 auto AWD S 39.4 9.9 2.0 D150 auto AWD SE 39.4 9.9 2.0 D180 AWD 41.1 9.4 2.0 D180 AWD S 41.1 9.4 2.0 D180 auto AWD 39.4 8.6 2.0 D180 auto AWD S 39.4 8.6 2.0 D180 auto AWD SE 39.4 8.6 2.0 D240 auto AWD S 36.9 6.8 2.0 D240 auto AWD SE 36.9 6.8 00 to SE R-Dynamic: add £1550, HSE: add £280

NEW CAR PRICES

Premium SE: add £2300 to Hybrid, add £2000 to PHEV/EV

17.7 2.9 370 50 267050 17.7 2.9 370 50 322088

CT - 4355x1765mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 30th 1.8 Hybrid (136) auto CT 200h 1.8 Hyb (136) at CT 200h F Sport 1.8 Hyb (136) at CT 200h Takumi

55.3 10.3 101 20 £26250 55.3 10.3 101 17 £28450 55.3 10.3 101 17 £33250

IS - 4680x1810mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 11th 2.5 Hybrid (223) auto IS 300h 2.5 Hybrid (223) at IS 300h F Sport 2.5 Hybrid (223) at IS 300h Takumi

48.7 8.4 104 28 £33200 48.7 8.4 109 28 £36900 48.7 8.4 109 28 £42900

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3.8 V8 (580) auto Trofeo 21.4 4.1 308 N/A 124900 3.0 V6 (275) auto Diesel 30.0 6.9 207 N/A £59800 GranLusso/GranSport: add £5045 to S, add £6240 0 to Dies l

2.5 Hybrid (218) auto ES 300h 2.5 Hybrid (218) at ES 300h F Sport 2.5 Hybrid (218) at ES 300h Takumi

GranTurismo - 4881x1915mm, EURO O-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

53.2 8.9 100 33 £35155 53.2 8.9 103 34 £38155 53.2 8.9 103 38 £45655

4.7 V8 (460) auto Sport 19.7 4.8 313 N/A £94420 4.7 V8 (460) auto MC 19.7 4.7 313 N/A 110055 GranCabrio: add £13515 to Sport, add d £6465 to MC

LS - 5235x1900mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.5 V6 Hyb (359) auto LS 500h 3.5 V6 Hyb (359) at LS 500h F Sport 3.5 V6 H (359) at LS 500h AWD T’mi

36.2 5.1 147 47 £74750 35.7 5.1 147 50 £82150 31.0 5.1 162 50 100650

2 - 4070x1695mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 49th

UX - 4495x1840mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 Hybrid (178) auto UX 250h 53.2 8.5 94 22 2.0 Hyb (178) at UX 250h E-Four 47.0 8.5 103 22 2.0 Hyb (178) at UX 250h F Sport 50.4 8.5 97 22 Takumi: add £5200 to F Sport, E-Four:: add £4300 to F Spo £1250 to Takumi

£29905 £36705 £33905 t, add

37.6 9.2 137 27 £36300 37.6 9.2 137 27 £42500 37.6 9.2 137 28 £46800

RX - 4890-5000x1895mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 5th 3.5 V6 Hybrid (313) auto RX 450h 3.5 V6 Hyb (313) at RX 450h F Sport 3.5 V6 Hy (313) at RX 450h Takumi 3.5 V6 Hy (313) at RX 450h L 3.5 V6 Hy (313) at RX 450h L T’kum

35.7 35.7 35.7 34.4 34.4

7.7 7.7 7.7 8.0 8.0

134 134 134 138 138

41 41 41 41 41

£50905 £55205 £61705 £52195 £62605

RC - 4704x1849mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.5 Hybrid (223) auto RC 300h 2.5 Hyb (223) at RC 300h F Sport 2.5 Hyb (223) at RC 300h Takumi 5.0 V8 (457) auto RC F

45.5 45.5 45.5 23.9

8.6 8.6 8.6 4.5

114 114 114 258

34 35 35 35

£40190 £43455 £46605 £62900

LC - 4770x1920mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.5 V6 Hybrid (359) auto LC 500h 5.0 V8 (464) auto LC 500

34.8 4.7 150 47 £78150 24.3 4.4 265 48 £78150

LOTUS Dealers: 18 / Warranty: 3 years/36000 miles Elise - 3824x1719mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.8 (217) Sport 220 1.8 (245) Cup 250

36.7 4.2 174 48 £42175 36.2 3.9 177 48 £50075

Exige - 4084x1802mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.5 V6 VVT-i S/C Sport 350 3.5 V6 VVT-i S/C Sport 410 3.5 V6 VVT-i S/C Cup 430

28.3 3.7 225 50 £62300 27.7 3.3 230 50 £83135 27.7 3.2 230 50 103835

Evora - 4394x1972mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.5 V6 VVT-i S/C GT410 Sport Auto: add £2000

26.7 4.0 239 50 £89135

McLAREN Dealers: 7 / Warranty: 3 years Sports Series - 4530-4604x1930mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.8 V8TT auto 540C 23.2 3.4 249 3.8 V8TT auto 570S 23.2 3.1 249 3.8 V8TT auto 570GT 23.2 3.4 249 3.8 V8TT auto 600LT 23.2 2.9 266 570S Spider: add £15750, 600LT Spide er: add £16000

50 50 50 50

137180 150870 158870 187690

Super Series - 4543x2059mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 4.0 V8TT auto 720S 4.0 V8TT auto 720S Perf/Lux Eds

23.2 2.8 249 50 216870 23.2 2.8 249 50 226860

23.7 3.1 245 50 164870

MASERATI Dealers: 19 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimite ed miles Ghibli - 4971x1948mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 V6TT (350) auto 3.0 V6TT (430) auto S 3.0 V6 (275) auto Diesel GranLusso/GranSport: add £7500

24.9 5.5 248 N/A £58700 24.9 4.9 248 N/A £70000 35.7 6.3 184 N/A £54800

Quattroporte - 5262x1948mm, EURO O-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 V6TT (350) auto 3.0 V6TT (430) auto S 3.0 V6 (275) auto Diesel GranLusso/GranSport: add £8500

24.9 5.5 254 N/A £79600 24.9 5.0 254 N/A £88500 35.7 6.4 191 N/A £75700

Levante - 5003x1968mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 V6 (350) auto 3.0 V6 (430) auto S 3.8 V8 (530) auto GTS

108 Special Issue

53.3 53.3 53.3 53.3 47.9

11.7 9.7 9.7 9.7 12.0

95 95 94 94 118

13 15 15 16 15

£15795 £16795 £17495 £18295 £19595

2.0 Skyactiv-G (122) SE-L 45.6 10.4 117 15 £21795 2.0 Skyactiv-G (122) Sport Lux 45.6 10.4 119 16 £23995 2.0 Skyactiv-G (122) auto SE-L Lux 43.5 10.8 126 15 £24395 2.0 Skyactiv-G (122) at Sport Lux 43.5 10.8 128 22 £25495 2.0 Skyactiv-X (180) SE-L 51.4 8.2 100 21 £23275 2.0 Skyactiv-X (180) Sport Lux 51.4 8.2 103 22 £25575 2.0 Skyactiv-X (180) at Sport Lux 45.6 8.6 120 22 £27095 2.0 Skyac-X (180) GT Spt Tec AWD 45.6 8.5 109 23 £30475 2.0 Sky-X (180) at GT Spt Tec AWD 40.9 8.9 125 23 £31995 Saloon: same price (not Skyactiv G, no o AWD), SE-L Lux: add £1100 to SE-L, GT Sport: add £1800 to Sport,, GT Sport Te ech: add 900 to GT Sport

6 - 4870x1840mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 35th 2.0 Skyactiv-G (145) SE-L Nav+ 42.2 9.9 142 22 2.0 Skyactiv-G (145) at SE-L Nav+ 40.3 10.9 141 22 2.0 Skyactiv-G (165) Sport Nav+ 42.2 9.4 146 24 2.5 Skyac’-G (194) at GT Spt Nav+ 38.2 8.1 153 29 2.2 Skyactiv-D (150) SE-L Nav+ 55.4 9.1 117 25 2.2 Skyactiv-D (150) Sport Nav+ 55.4 10.0 117 26 2.2 Skyactiv-D (150) at SE-L Nav+ 47.9 10.6 133 25 2.2 Skyactiv-D (184) Sport Nav+ 53.3 8.5 124 31 2.2 Skyactiv-D (184) at Sport Nav+ 47.9 9.0 133 31 Tourer: add £900 (not 2.0 (145) auto), SE-L Lux: ad dd £140 manual, GT Sport Nav+: add £2390 to o 2.2D D (184) Sport N

£24395 £25995 £27195 £32095 £27395 £29495 £29295 £30095 £31995 to SE-L v+

CX-30 - 4395x1795mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 Skyactiv-G (122) SE-L 45.6 10.6 116 12 £22895 2.0 Skyactiv-G (122) Sport Lux 45.6 10.6 116 13 £25295 2.0 Skyactiv-G (122) auto SE-L 42.8 11.2 126 12 £24395 2.0 Skyactiv-G (122) at Sport Lux 42.8 11.2 126 13 £26795 2.0 Skyactiv-X (180) SE-L 47.9 8.5 105 18 £24375 2.0 Skyactiv-X (180) Sport Lux 47.9 8.5 105 19 £27075 2.0 Skyactiv-X (180) Spt Lux AWD 43.5 9.0 111 18 £29295 2.0 Skyactiv-X (180) auto SE-L 43.5 8.8 118 18 £25895 2.0 Skyactiv-X (180) at Sport Lux 43.5 8.8 118 18 £28595 2.0 Skyac-X (180) at Spt Lx AWD 40.4 9.2 128 18 £30795 Lux: add £1300 to SE-L, GT Sport: add £1800 to Sp port Lux, GT Sport Tech: add £900 to GT Sport

CX-5 - 4550x1840mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 19th 2.0 Skyactiv-G (165) SE-L Nav+ 38.2 10.3 146 15 £26400 2.0 Skyactiv-G (165) Sport Nav+ 38.2 10.3 145 16 £29500 2.0 Skyactiv-G (165) at SE-L Nav+ 36.7 9.8 150 15 £28000 2.0 Skyactiv-G (165) at Sport Nav+ 36.7 9.8 150 16 £31100 2.2 Skyactiv-D (150) SE-L Nav+ 47.9 9.9 130 19 £28100 2.2 Skyactiv-D (150) Sport Nav+ 49.6 9.9 128 19 £30700 2.2 Skyactiv-D (150) at SE-L Nav+ 43.5 10.7 143 19 £30010 2.2 Skyactiv-D (150) at Sport Nav+ 43.5 10.7 143 19 £32610 2.2 Skyactiv-D (184) Spt Nv+ AWD 42.8 9.3 137 23 £33710 2.2 Skyac-D (184) at Spt Nv+ AWD 39.8 9.6 145 23 £35610 GT Sport Nav+: add £2400 to 2.0 (165)) Sport Nav+ +, add £2970 to 2.2D (184) Sport Nav+

1.5 Skyactiv-G (132) SE L 44.8 8.3 138 27 1.5 Skyactiv-G (132) SE-L Nav+ 44.8 8.3 138 26 2.0 Skyactiv-G (184) Sport Tech 40.9 6.5 156 33 2.0 Skyac-G (184) at Sport Tech RF 37.2 7.9 157 28 GT Sport Tech: add £1500 to Sport Tecch, MX-5 RF: add d £1

£23795 £26095 £28395 £31895 00

MERCEDES

22.4 6.0 268 N/A £62900 22.4 5.2 273 N/A £74000 21.4 4.3 308 N/A£ £104900

47.9 9.2 47.9 9.2 47.9 8.8 47.9 8.8 47.9 8.2 47.9 8.0 41.5 6.2 256.8 6.6 35.8 4.7 33.6 3.9 62.8 10.6 62.8 10.6 64.2 10.5 64.2 10.5 58.9 8.1 57.7 7.0

121 121 121 121 122 120 139 32 167 192 106 106 101 101 110 114

19 20 19 20 23 23 29 28 37 40 17 18 17 18 23 26

£23710 £25210 £25310 £26810 £26760 £28360 £31400 £32980 £38020 £50570 £25060 £26560 £26660 £28160 £29440 £32510

A-Class Saloon - 4549x1796mm EUR RO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.3T (136) A 180 Sport 1.3T (136) auto A 180 Sport 1.3T (163) A 200 Sport 1.3T (163) auto A 200 Sport 2.0T (224) auto A 250 AMG Line 1.3T Hyb (262) at A 250 e AMG Li 2.0T (306) auto AMG A 35 4MATIC 1.5 (116) A 180 d Sport

47.9 9.3 47.9 8.9 47.9 8.3 47.9 8.1 41.5 6.3 256.8 8 6.7 36.7 4.8 62.8 10.7

9.0 8.2 6.4 10.7 8.3 7.2

120 120 120 119 134 31 164 105

20 20 23 23 29 28 37 18

£25805 £27405 £27355 £28955 £30845 £33575 £38615 £27155

125 124 137 101 112 112

22 25 31 19 25 29

£27610 £29160 £33700 £28960 £30260 £34810

27 29 35 42 45 34

£31280 £32830 £34370 £39970 £52045 £35460

CLA-Class - 4695x1830mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.3T (136) auto CLA 180 AMG Line 45.6 9.2 124 1.3T (163) auto CLA 200 AMG Line 45.6 8.4 123 2.0T (224) auto CLA 250 AMG Line 40.9 6.4 135 2.0T (306) at AMG CLA 35 4MATIC 35.8 4.9 164 2.0T (306) at AMG CLA 45 S 4MT+ 32.8 4.0 189 2.1 (190) at CLA 220 d AMG Line 56.5 7.2 110 Shooting Brake: add £1000 (add £142 25 to CLA 45 5 S)

80kWh EQC 400 4MATIC Sport 80kWh EQC 400 4MAT AMG Line

N/A 5.1 N/A 50 £65720 N/A 5.1 N/A 50 £67715

GLE-Class - 4930x2018mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0T (367) at GLE 450 4M AMG Li P 3.0T (435) at AMG GLE 53 4MAT+ 2.0 (245) at GLE 300 d 4M AMG Lin 2.0 (320) at GLE 350 de 4M AMG Li 3.0 (272) at GLE 350 d 4M AMG Lin 3.0 (330) at GLE 400 d 4M AMG L P+ 7 seats: add £1995 to GLE 300 d

33.2 5.7 30.4 5.3 46.3 7.2 256.8 6.8 41.5 6.6 39.2 5.7

194 212 162 29 179 189

1.6T (156) C 180 S 43.5 8.2 134 28 1.6T (156) C 180 SE 43.5 8.2 138 29 1.6T (156) auto C 180 SE 42.8 8.6 143 29 1.5T (198) auto C 200 EQ SE 44.1 7.7 139 32 2.0 (258) auto C 300 AMG Line Ed 40.4 5.9 136 37 3.0 V6TT (390) at AMG C 43 4MAT 29.4 4.7 208 41 4.0 V8TT (510) auto AMG C 63 S 25.9 4.0 227 48 2.0 (194) auto C 220 d SE 55.4 6.9 121 34 2.0 (245) at C 300 d AMG Line Ed 49.6 5.9 129 40 2.0 (316) at C 300 de EQ Sport Ed 235.4 5.6 38 43 Sport Edition: add £1650 to SE, AMG Line Edition n: add £1 180/C 200/C 220 d Sport Edition, Estatte: add £120 00

4.0 V8TT (585) at AMG G 63 4MAT 3.0 (286) auto G 350 d 4MT AMG Li

E-Class - 4940x1852mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

37.2 35.3 31.0 46.3 41.5

6.0 4.8 4.5 6.4 5.0

165 28 47 N/A 196 N/A 200 N/A 245 47 118 31 135 32 39 N/A 143 N/A 154 N/A 168 N/A

£41120 £47530 £57875 £64760 £98050 £38550 £43370 £47780 £52765 £60190 £64950

163 N/A 187 50 202 50 142 N/A 158 50

£54690 £64205 £77935 £51415 £67305

22.1 3.2 257 50 138305

S-Class - 5141-5462x1905mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 171 171 59 233 320 160 159

49 50 50 50 50 47 50

£83150 £88400 £97560 129135 183245 £76190 £82990

£52210 £56160 £55455 £59405 £54145 £58095 £55100 £59380 £60360 £64640 ort L

GLA-Class - 4417x1804mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 158 144 151 147 169

22 22 22 22 28

£26100 £27380 £27650 £28930 £35910

GLB-Class - 4634x1834mm, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.3T (163) auto GLB 200 Sport 7st 40.4 9.1 138 N/A £34200 2.0 (150) at GLB 200 d AMG Li 7st 51.4 9.0 133 N/A £28330 2.0 (150) at GLB 200 d 4M AMG Li 7st 49.6 9.3 145 N/A £41400 2.0 (190) at GLB 220 d 4M AMG L 5s 48.7 7.6 146 N/A £42200 AMG Line: add £1500 to Sport, 7 seatts: add £750 to GLB 220 d

GLC-Class - 4655-4682x1890-1930mm m, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0T (258) at GLC 300 4MAT Sport 3.0 V6TT (390) at AMG GLC 43 4M 4.0 V8TT (476) at AMG GLC 63 4M 4.0 V8TT (510) at AMG GLC 63 S 4M 2.0 (194) at GLC 220 d 4MAT Sport 2.0 (245) at GLC 300 d 4MT AMG L P

34.4 27.7 22.2 22.1 47.9 44.1

6.2 4.9 4.0 3.8 7.9 6.5

2.3 (163) X 220 d 4MT Progressive 2.3 (190) X 250 d 4MT Progressive 2.3 (190) at X 250 d 4MT P’gressiv 2.3 (190) at X 250 d 4MT Element 3.0 V6 (258) at X 350 d 4MT Power

37.2 35.8 35.8 35.8 31.4

12.9 11.8 11.8 11.8 7.9

200 200 207 207 236

37 38 39 39 40

£35238 £36114 £37722 £43998 £47412

1.6T (156) C 180 AMG Line 1.6T (156) auto C 180 AMG Line 1.5T (198) at C 200 EQ AMG Line 1.5T (198) a C 200 EQ 4MT AMG Li 2.0T (258) auto C 300 AMG Line 3.0 V6TT (390) at AMG C 43 4MAT 4.0 V8TT (510) at AMG C 63 S 4MT 2.0 (194) auto C 220 d AMG Line 2.0 (194) at C 220 d 4MT AMG Line 2.0 (245) auto C 300 d AMG Line 2.0 (245) at C 300 d 4MT AMG Line C-Class Cabriolet: add £3819

42.8 41.5 42.8 40.4 40.4 29.4 25.5 54.3 49.6 49.6 48.7

8.5 8.9 7.9 8.4 6.0 4.7 3.9 7.0 7.3 6.0 6.0

134 N/A 144 N/A 138 N/A 151 N/A 136 N/A 217 N/A 230 N/A 117 N/A 125 N/A 129 N/A 137 N/A

£36415 £TBC £39075 £40995 £41835 £53455 £79158 £41545 £43145 £42600 £44240

2.0T (245) auto E 300 AMG Line 2.0T (299) at E 350 EQ AMG Line 3.0T (367) at E 450 AMG Li 4MAT 3.0T (435) at AMG GLE 53 4MAT+ 2.0 (194) at E 220 d AMG Li Prem 2.0 (245) auto E 300 d AMG Line 3.0 (340) at E 400 d AMG Li 4MAT E-Class Cabriolet: add £4495

31.0 37.2 31.4 31.4 52.3 47.9 42.2

6.5 5.9 5.6 4.4 7.4 6.3 5.1

181 37 164 N/A 202 N/A 202 N/A 132 34 N/A N/A 158 N/A

£44725 £50610 £58415 £65260 £44260 £TBA £TBA

S-Class Coupe - 5051x1913mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 4.0 V8TT (469) at S 560 Grand Ed 27.7 4.6 230 50 113180 4.0 V8TT (612) auto AMG S 63 24.4 4.2 231 50 131910 S-Class Cabriolet: add £11795 to S 560 0, £13095 to S 63

SL-Class - 4631x1877mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 V6TT (367) at SL 400 Grand Ed 4.7 V8 (455) auto SL 500 Grand Ed

29.7 4.9 197 50 £79965 27.4 4.3 230 50 £89200

AMG GT - 4544x1939mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

2.0 (163) auto V 220 d Sport N/A 11.0 158 N/A 2.0 (239) auto V 300 d Sport N/A 7.8 157 N/A 2.0 (163) auto V 220 d Sport L N/A 11.1 159 N/A 2.0 (239) auto V 300 d Sport L N/A 7.9 157 N/A 2.0 (163) auto V 220 d Sport XL N/A 11.2 159 N/A 2.0 (239) auto V 300 d Sport XL N/A 7.9 158 N/A 2.0 (163) at V 220 d M Polo Horiz L N/A 11.9 162 N/A 2.0 (239) at V 300 d M Polo Horiz L N/A 8.3 161 N/A 2.0 (163) at V 220 d Marco Polo L N/A 12.3 163 N/A 2.0 (239) at V 300 d Marco Polo L N/A 8.6 162 N/A AMG Line: add £2305, Exclusive: add £31960 to V 300 d S

1.6T (122) GLA 180 Urban Edition 40.4 9.0 1.6T (122) auto GLA 180 Urban Ed 39.2 8.7 1.6T (156) GLA 200 Urban Edition 39.8 8.4 1.6T (156) auto GLA 200 Urban Ed 38.2 8.1 2.0T (211) at GLA 250 4MT AMG Li 35.8 6.6 AMG Line Edition: add £2520 to Urba an Edition

X-Class - 5340x1920mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

E-Class Coupe - 4846x1860mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

AMG GT 4-door Coupe - 5054x19533mm, EURO--NCAP /A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

3.0 (367) at S 450 L Grand Edition 36.2 5.1 3.0 (435) at S 500 L Grand Edition 36.2 4.8 3.0 (469) at S 560 e L Grand Ed 128.4 5.0 4.0 V8TT (612) auto AMG S 63 L 24.4 4.3 6.0 V12TT (630) at S 650 Maybach 20.0 4.7 3.0 (286) at S 350 d Grand Edition 44.1 6.0 3.0 (340) at S 400 d L Grand Ed 44.1 5.4 Long wheelbase: add £2800 to S 350 d

18.8 4.5 299 50 146450 25.9 7.4 252 N/A £96180

C-Class Coupe - 4696-4750x1810-18777mm, EURO O-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

CLS-Class - 4996x1896mm, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0T (313) auto CLS 350 AMG Line 3.0T (389) at CLS 450 4MT AMG Li 3.0T (435) at AMG CLS 53 4MAT+ 2.0 (245) auto CLS 300 d AMG Line 3.0 (340) at CLS 400 d 4MT AMG Li

£67020 £74490 £57015 £61360 £61165 £72435

3.0 (330) a GLS 400 d 4MT AMG Li P 32.8 6.3 213 50 £75040 Premium Plus: add £8250, Premium Plus Executivve: add £ 6500

G-Class - 4873x1984mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

£29790 £31680 £TBC £34340 £40245 £50870 £76868 £36810 £41010 £43015 95 to C

47 50 44 47 45 48

GLS-Class - 5213x2030mm, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

C-Class - 4686-4756x1810-1839mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 27th

2.0T (197) at E 200 AMG Line Ed 38.2 7.5 2.0T (320) auto E 300 e EQ SE 188.3 5.7 3.0T (367) at E 450 4MT AMG Li Ni 31.7 5.1 3.0T (435) auto AMG E 53 4MATIC 31.4 4.5 4.0 V8TT (612) at AMG E 63 S 4M+ 23.7 3.4 2.0 (194) auto E 220 d SE 53.3 7.3 2.0 (245) at E 300 d AMG Line Ed 47.9 6.2 2.0 (306) auto E 300 de EQ SE 217.3 5.9 3.0 (286) at E 350 d AMG Line Ed 47.1 5.7 3.0 (340) at E 400 d 4MAT AMG Li 42.8 4.9 3.0 (340) at E 400 d 4MT All Terrain 38.7 5.4 AMG Line: add £2495 to SE, Estate: ad dd £2000

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MPG 1.3T (136) auto B 180 Sport 45.6 1.3T (163) auto B 200 Sport 45.6 2.0T (224) at B 250 AMG Line Exec 39.8 1.5 (116) auto B 180 d Sport 60.1 2.0 (150) auto B 200 d Sport 56.5 2.0 (190) at B 220 d AMG Line Exec 55.4 AMG Line Executive: add £1200 to Sp port

AMG Line: add £1750 to Sport, GLC Coupe: add £2490-£3030 (not Sport trim)

EQC - 4762x1884mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

V-Class - 4895-5370x1928mm, EURO--NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

MX-5 - 3915x1735mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 13th

1.3T (136) A 180 SE 1.3T (136) A 180 Sport 1.3T (136) auto A 180 SE 1.3T (136) auto A 180 Sport 1.3T (163) A 200 Sport 1.3T (163) auto A 200 Sport 2.0T (227) auto A 250 AMG Line 1.3T Hyb (262) at A 250 e AMG Li 2.0T (306) auto AMG A 35 4MATIC 2.0T (421) at AMG A 45 S 4MATIC+ 1.5 (116) A 180 d SE 1.5 (116) A 180 d Sport 1.5 (116) auto A 180 d SE 1.5 (116) auto A 180 d Sport 2.0 (150) auto A 200 d Sport 2.0 (190) auto A 220 d AMG Line AMG Line: add £1200 to Sport

64.2 10.6 100 18 £28735 58.9 8.2 108 23 £30035 57.7 7.1 109 26 £33085

B-Class - 4419x1796mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

4.0 V8TT (639) at GT 63 S 4MT+

Dealers: 147 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimitted miles P ★★★★★ A-Class - 4419x1796mm EURO-NCAP DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

GT - 4683x2045mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 4.0 V8TT (620) auto GT

1.5 Skyactiv-G (75) SE-L 1.5 Skyactiv-G (90) SE-L Nav 1.5 Skyactiv-G (90) Sport Nav 1.5 Skyactiv-G (90) GT Sport Nav 1.5 Skyactiv-G (90) auto Sport Nav

3 - 4460x1795mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

NX - 4640x1845mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 6th 2.5 Hybrid (197) auto NX 300h 2.5 Hyb (197) at NX 300h F Sport 2.5 Hyb (197) at NX 300h Takumi

MAZDA Dealers: 154 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

1.5 (116) auto A 180 d Sport 2.0 (150) auto A 200 d Sport 2.0 (190) auto A 220 d AMG Line AMG Line: add £1200 to Sport

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NEW CAR PRICES

ES - 4975x1865mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

166 N/A 234 N/A 278 N/A 283 N/A 137 N/A 157 N/A

£41910 £50885 £75255 £86600 £40300 £47925

4.0 V8TT (476) at AMG GT Ed 476 23.5 4.0 261 50 £98930 4.0 V8TT (557) auto AMG GT C 22.1 3.7 284 50 140775 AMG GT Roadster: add £11960 to GT C

MG Dealers: 71 / Warranty: 7 years/80000 miles MG3 - 4018x1729mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 (106) Explore 1.5 (106) Excite Exclusive: add £1400 to Excite

42.3 10.4 140 7 £9495 42.3 10.4 140 7 £11395

ZS - 4314x1809mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 (106) Explore 1.5 (106) Excite 1.0T GDi (111) auto Excite 44.5 kWh (143) auto EV Excite Exclusive: add £1750 to Excite

47.1 47.1 45.4 N/A

10.4 129 11 £12495 10.4 129 11 £14045 12.1 144 10 £16045 8.5 0 N/A £21495

HS - 4574x1876mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 T-GDi (162) Explore 1.5 T-GDi (162) Excite 1.5 T-GDi (162) auto Excite Exclusive: add £2500 to Excite

37.2 9.9 148 N/A £17995 37.2 9.9 148 N/A £20495 37.2 9.9 148 N/A £21995

MINI Dealers: 148 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimitted miles

MINI - 3821-3982x1727mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 57th 1.5T (102) One 1.5T (102) auto One 1.5T (136) Cooper

49.6 10.3 117 13 £16195 47.9 10.3 111 13 £17595 48.7 8.0 117 20 £17635

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1.5T (136) Cooper 44.1 9.2 127 20 1.5T (136) auto Cooper 42.8 9.2 120 20 2.0T (192) Cooper S 40.4 7.3 145 26 2.0T (192) auto Cooper S 42.2 7.2 125 26 2.0T (306) at John Cooper Works 34.9 4.9 161 40 2.0 (150) Cooper D 56.5 8.9 113 23 2.0 (150) auto Cooper D 54.3 8.6 111 23 Sport/Exclusive: add £2900 to Cooperr/Cooper D/C Coop per S

£21950 £23550 £24690 £26250 £35360 £24290 £25890

121 116 145 123 161 142

21 21 30 30 33 33

£20085 £21485 £24125 £25485 £29250 £30630

128 122 141 135 111 143 130 156 43 111 113 129 123

18 18 16 16 25 25 23 38 27 21 21 21 21

£23350 £24950 £25090 £26690 £25590 £27150 £28890 £36660 £31880 £25390 £26990 £26990 £28590

MITSUBISHI P ★★★★ Mirage - 3710x1665mm, EURO-NCAP DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 55.4 11.7 107 18 £11300 47.9 12.8 114 18 £14025

ASX - 4295x1770mm, EURO-NCAP N//A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 Mivec (117) Dynamic 2.0 Mivec (117) auto Exceed AWD Exceed: add £2800 to Dynamic

37.7 11.5 155 20 £20295 37.7 11.5 155 20 £25945

Eclipse Cross - 4405x1805mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5T Mivec (163) Verve 33.2 10.3 165 18 1.5T Mivec (163) Design SE 32.5 9.8 175 20 1.5T Mivec (163) auto Design SE 32.5 9.8 175 20 1.5T Mivec (163) at Dynamic AWD 32.5 9.8 175 20 Dynamic: add £1290 to Design SE, Excceed: add £2 2675 to

£22095 £22345 £23680 £26845 ynamic

Outlander - 4695x1810mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 (150) auto Design 32.5 13.2 171 22 £28085 2.4 Hybrid (221) auto PHEV Verve 139.710.5 40 25 £35455 2.4 Hybrid (221) at PHEV Design 139.710.5 40 25 £36455 2.4 Hybrid (221) at PHEV Dynamic 139.710.5 40 22 £38555 Exceed: add £2300 to Design (add £24 400 to PHEV V Dynam c)

L200 - 5305x1815mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.3 DI-D (150) 4Life Double Cab 32.1 2.3 DI-D (150) Warrior Double Cab 32.1 2.3 DI-D (150) Barbarian Dbl Cab 32.1 2.3 DI-D (150) auto Warrior DC 29.1 2.3 DI-D (150) auto Barbarian DC 29.1 Barbarian X: add £1800 to Barbarian auto

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

231 N/A 231 N/A 231 N/A 254 N/A 254 N/A

£27195 £31617 £35097 £33297 £36777

Shogun Sport - 4785x1815mm, EURO O-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.4 DI-D (181) auto 3 Shogun Sport 4: add £2000 to 3

32.8 11.0 227 43 £37840

MORGAN

34.9 7.0 187 N/A £40074

Roadster - 3890-4010x1630-1756mm,, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.6 (110) 4/4 2.0 (154) Plus 4 3.7 V6 (280) Roadster 3.0TT (335) auto Plus 6

44.1 39.8 27.4 38.2

8.0 7.5 5.5 4.2

143 N/A 215 N/A 250 N/A 170 N/A

£40206 £44106 £55074 £77995

NISSAN Dealers: 221 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

Micra - 3999x1743mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 15th 1.0 IG (71) Visia 1.0 IG (71) Acenta 0.9 IG-T (90) Visia+ 0.9 IG-T (90) Acenta

Qashqai - 4330x1780mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 22nd 1.3 DiG-T (140) Visia 41.4 10.5 121 17 1.3 DiG-T (140) Acenta Premium 41.4 10.5 121 15 1.3 DiG-T (160) Acenta Premium 41.4 8.9 121 18 1.3 DiG-T (160) auto Acenta Prem 40.7 9.9 122 18 1.5 dCi (115) Visia 53.3 12.3 100 17 1.5 dCi (115) Acenta Premium 53.3 12.3 100 15 1.5 dCi (115) auto Acenta Prem 53.7 13.0 106 15 1.7 dCi (150) N-Connecta 49.6 9.5 127 18 1.7 dCi (150) N-Connecta 4WD 46.4 9.5 138 18 1.7 dCi (150) at N-Connecta 4WD 40.9 11.2 154 18 N-Connecta: add £1700 to Acenta Pre emium, Tekn na: add N-Connecta, Tekna+: add £1200 to Te ekna

£21795 £23100 £24200 £25650 £21595 £24800 £26150 £28000 £29710 £31170 2300 to

1.3 DiG-T (160) Acenta 33.2 11.5 150 20 £26590 1.7 dCi (150) Visia 42.2 11.0 137 18 £25795 1.7 dCi (150) Acenta 42.2 10.7 137 16 £27095 1.7 dCi (150) Acenta 4WD 40.4 10.7 151 23 £28995 1.7 dCi (150) auto Acenta 38.7 12.7 146 23 £28545 1.7 dCi (150) auto Acenta 4WD 36.2 12.7 159 23 £30445 Acenta Premium: add £1070 to Acentta, N-Conne ecta: add £1430 to Acenta Premium, Tekna: add £2100 0 to N-Conn necta

Navara - 5330x1850mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.3 dCi (163) Visia Double Cab 31.8 12.5 234 36 2.3 dCi (163) Acenta Double Cab 31.8 12.5 234 36 2.3 dCi (190) N-Connecta DC 31.7 11.2 235 37 2.3 dCi (190) auto N-Connecta DC 29.6 11.2 252 37 Tekna: add £1980 to N-Connecta, N-G Guard: add £3180 to N-Connecta

£27600 £28740 £32250 £34170

5.3 5.3 5.3 5.2

248 248 245 248

46 46 46 44

£29995 £34995 £36495 £40495

2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7

316 316 316 316 325

50 50 50 50 50

£83995 £86995 £87995 £99995 174995

GT-R - 4710x1895mm, EURO-NCAP N//A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 20.2 20.2 20.2 20.2 19.7

108 - 3475x1615mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 (72) Active 3dr 58.9 13.8 85 8 £12265 5dr: add £400 to 3dr, Allure: add £140 05 to Active,, 108 Top!: add £1400 to 5dr models

46.3 46.3 47.1 47.1

16.4 16.4 12.1 12.1

121 121 118 118

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1 1 3 3

£12875 £15095 £14715 £15985

1.2 PureTech (75) Active 53.6 14.9 94 12 1.2 PureTech (100) Active 53.0 9.9 97 19 1.2 PureTech (100) auto Active 50.3 10.8 99 19 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Allure 51.9 8.7 103 24 1.5 BlueHDi (100) Active 71.4 10.2 85 21 50kWh (136) Active N/A 8.1 0 26 50kWh (136) GT N/A 8.1 0 28 Allure: add £1500 to Active (not 1.2 PureTech 75), GT Lin £1850 to Allure

£16250 £17350 £18750 £21500 £18850 £25050 £29650 : add

308 - 4253x1804mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 47.7 48.9 48.5 48.9 48.5 40.1 37.8 63.8 62.7 62.1 62.7 62.1

28 34 31 33 22 22 22 22 29 32

£30680 £37005 £30330 £40630 £26030 £27330 £27630 £28930 £30330 £37230

Traveller - 4959-5309x1920mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

10.1 9.1 9.8 9.1 9.8 7.4 6.0 11.5 9.8 9.4 9.8 9.4

104 105 105 105 105 132 148 97 92 102 92 93

15 19 19 20 20 27 36 17 22 22 23 23

£21125 £21595 £23195 £24345 £25745 £29205 £30745 £21675 £22595 £24195 £25345 £26745

£20150 £23550 £26100 £22900 £27650 £31575 £21750 £26500 £31650 £35500 £37775

10.9 8.9 8.9 9.1 9.1 8.2 11.4 11.4 N/A N/A N/A

1.2 PureTech (130) Active 47.2 9.5 113 16 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Active 54.6 9.7 109 16 1.6 PureTech (180) auto GT Line 39.6 8.0 128 24 1.6 Hybrid (225) auto Allure N/A N/A 49 26 1.6 Hybrid (225) auto GT N/A N/A 49 28 1.6 Hybrid4 (300) auto GT 235.4 5.9 28 35 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Active 55.1 10.8 106 16 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Active 56.3 11.5 102 16 2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto Allure 47.3 9.0 121 23 2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto GT 47.3 9.0 121 24 Allure: add £1800 to Active, GT Line: add £1900 to Allure

£25865 £27465 £32865 £36585 £41735 £46735 £27485 £29085 £32685 £37365

3008 - 4365x1837mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 1st

PORSCHE Dealers: 36 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimite ed miles

Taycan - 4963x1966mm, EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A N/A 3.2 N/A 3.2 N/A 2.8

0 50 £83367 0 50 115858 0 50 138826

5.3 4.9 5.3 4.9 4.9 4.4 4.5 4.4

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CO2 Insurance group 186 44 180 44 187 44 181 44 210 46 194 46 246 N/A 249 50

£46651 £48651 £53916 £56219 £55607 £57607 £65949 £73405

2.0T (300) 718 Cayman 2.0T (300) auto 718 Cayman auto 2.0T (300) 718 Cayman T 2.0T (300) auto 718 Cayman T 2.5T (350) 718 Cayman S 2.5T (350) auto 718 Cayman S 4.0 (400) 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 4.0 (420) 718 Cayman GT4

32.8 33.2 32.5 32.8 29.1 31.0 25.9 25.7

5.1 4.9 5.1 4.9 4.6 4.4 4.5 4.4

186 42 180 42 186 42 180 42 210 44 193 44 246 N/A 249 47

£44790 £46790 £52055 £54358 £53746 £55746 £64088 £75348

3.0TT (385) auto Carrera 3.0TT (385) auto Carrera 4 3.0TT (385) auto Carrera Cabrio 3.0TT (385) auto Carrera 4 Cabrio 3.0TT (450) auto Carrera S 3.0TT (450) auto Carrera 4S 3.0TT (450) auto Carrera S Cabrio 3.0TT (450) auto Carrera 4S Cabrio

28.5 28.2 28.0 27.7 28.5 27.2 28.0 26.6

4.2 4.2 4.4 4.4 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.8

206 210 210 211 205 206 208 207

£82793 £88101 £92438 £97746 £93110 £98418 102755 108063

50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50

3.0 V6 (330) auto 4 26.9 5.5 192 50 £72890 2.9 V6 (440) auto 4S 25.9 4.4 190 50 £92443 2.9 V6 (460) auto GTS 23.5 4.1 235 50 £107179 4.0 V8TT (550) auto Turbo 23.0 3.8 238 50 117918 2.9 V6 (462) auto 4 E-Hybrid 85.6 4.6 60 50 £83718 4.0 V8 TT (680) at Turbo S E-Hyb 80.7 3.4 74 50 140132 Executive: add £6622 to 4, £9972 to 4S, £5123 to E-Hybrid, £9405 to Turbo/Turbo S E Hybrid, Sport Turismo: add £2147 (add £3688 to Panamera 4S)

Macan - 4696x1923mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.7 5.3 4.9 4.5

Twizy - 2338x1234mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.1kWh (17) auto Expression 6.1kWh (17) auto Dynamique

N/A N/A N/A N/A

0 10 £10990 0 11 £11790

Zoe - 4084x1730mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 52kWh (107) auto Play 52kWh (107) auto Iconic 52kWh (134) auto Iconic 52kWh (134) auto GT Line

N/A N/A N/A N/A

11.4 11.4 11.4 11.4

0 0 0 0

19 19 18 21

£28470 £29970 £30420 £31420

1.0 SCe (75) Play 52.3 16.4 121 3 1.0 TCe (100) Play 54.3 11.8 117 10 1.0 TCe (100) R.S. Line 54.3 11.8 118 10 1.0 TCe (100) auto Play 48.7 N/A 131 10 1.0 TCe (100) auto R.S. Line 47.8 N/A 133 10 1.3 TCe (130) auto R.S. Line 49.6 9.0 131 16 1.5 dCi (85) Play 67.3 14.7 109 10 1.5 dCi (85) R.S. Line 67.3 14.7 110 10 Iconic: add £1000 to Play, S Edition: ad dd £2800 to Play

£14695 £15495 £17995 £17295 £19395 £20795 £17295 £19795

Clio - 4050x1798mm, EURO-NCAP N//A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.3 TCe (140) Play 46.3 9.5 137 18 1.3 TCe (140) auto Play 44.1 9.2 144 18 1.3 TCe (140) Iconic 46.3 9.5 140 18 1.3 TCe (140) auto Iconic 44.1 9.2 146 18 1.3 TCe (140) GT Line 46.3 9.5 150 19 1.3 TCe (140) auto GT Line 44.1 9.2 150 19 1.8 TCe (280) Renaultsport 35.8 5.8 178 35 1.8 TCe (280) auto Renaultsport 34.0 5.8 187 35 1.8 TCe (300) Renaultsport Trophy 34.4 5.8 185 37 1.8 TCe (300) at R’sport Trophy 33.6 5.8 190 37 1.8 TCe (300) R’sport Trophy-R 34.9 5.4 190 37 1.8 TCe (300) Trophy-R Carbon 34.9 5.4 190 N/A 1.8 TCe (300) Trophy-R N’ring 34.9 5.4 190 N/A 1.5 Blue dCi (115) Play 62.8 11.1 119 16 1.5 Blue dCi (115) auto Play 58.9 10.6 130 16 1.5 Blue dCi (115) Iconic 62.8 11.1 121 16 1.5 Blue dCi (115) auto Iconic 58.9 10.6 131 16 1.5 Blue dCi (115) GT Line 62.8 11.1 126 16 1.5 Blue dCi (115) auto GT Line 58.9 10.6 134 16 Megane Sports Tourer: add £1200 (no ot Renaultsp port)

£18295 £19895 £19295 £20895 £21095 £22695 £28295 £29895 £32295 £33895 £51440 £63440 £72440 £19795 £21395 £20795 £22395 £22595 £24195

Grand Scenic - 4634x1866mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Panamera - 5049x1937mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

181 39 196 42 218 42 224 N/A

£46913 £49300 £58816 £68530

Cayenne - 4918x1983mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 24.1 23.9 20.8 72.4 58.9

32.5 33.2 32.5 32.8 29.1 30.7 25.9 25.7

Megane - 4359x1814mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.2 PureTech (130) Active 47.2 9.9 121 14 £27915 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Allure 54.6 10.2 121 14 £31415 1.6 PureTech (180) auto GT Line 39.6 8.3 131 24 £35015 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Active 55.1 11.1 109 15 £29535 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Active 56.3 11.8 107 15 £31155 2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto Allure 47.3 9.2 129 22 £34885 2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto GT 47.3 9.2 129 23 £39985 Allure: add £1800 to Active, GT Line: add £1900 to Allure (not 1.2 PureTech auto)

3.0 V6T (340) auto 2.9 V6TT (440) auto S 4.0 V8TT (550) auto Turbo 2.9 V6 (462) auto S E-Hybrid 4.0 V8 TT (680) at Turbo S E-Hyb

2.0T (300) 718 Boxster 2.0T (300) auto 718 Boxster 2.0T (300) 718 Boxster T 2.0T (300) auto 718 Boxster T 2.5T (350) 718 Boxster S 2.5T (350) auto 718 Boxster S 4.0 (400) 718 Boxster GTS 4.0 4.0 (420) 718 Boxster Spyder

Dealers: 158 / Warranty: 4 years/100000 0 miles 105 N/A 103 N/A 103 N/A 109 N/A 109 N/A 113 N/A 96 N/A 96 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A

28.2 25.7 25.0 24.8

718 Boxster - 4379x1801mm, EURO--NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

RENAULT

2008 - 4300x1770mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

2.0T (245) auto 3.0 V6 (354) auto S 3.0 V6 (380) auto GTS 3.0 V6 (440) auto Turbo

6.0 212 44 £62129 5.0 212 50 £73658 3.9 258 50 104729 5.1 72 50 £71424 3.8 85 50 125946

911 - 4519x1852mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.5 BlueHDi (120) Active 47.1 12.0 126 17 £35385 1.5 BlueHDi (120) Business 47.1 12.0 126 17 £35015 2.0 BlueHDi (150) Active 41.9 10.3 144 21 £36875 2.0 BlueHDi (150) Business 41.9 10.3 144 21 £36505 2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto Active 40.6 8.8 143 24 £39240 2.0 BlueHDi (180) at Business VIP 40.6 8.8 149 27 £44930 ng wheelbase: Allure: add £6035 to Active (not 1.5 BlueHDi), lon add £700 to Allure/Business VIP

52.0 50.6 50.6 47.1 47.1 46.6 62.7 62.7 N/A N/A N/A

23.9 23.7 20.8 70.6 57.9

718 Cayman - 4379x1801mm, EURO--NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.2 PureTech (110) Active 42.4 11.7 126 10 £21125 1.5 BlueHDi (100) Active 51.6 12.5 113 11 £21405 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Allure 50.1 10.4 115 14 £23725 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Allure 50.3 10.4 114 14 £25225 1050 to Active, GT Line: add Rifter Long: add £1700, Allure: add £1 £1650 to Allure

1.2 PureTech (100) Active 1.2 PureTech (130) Allure 1.2 PureTech (130) GT Line 1.2 PureTech (130) auto Active 1.2 PureTech (130) auto GT Line 1.2 PureTech (155) auto GT 1.5 BlueHDi (100) Active 1.5 BlueHDi (100) GT Line 50kWh (136) Active 50kWh (136) GT Line 50kWh (136) GT Allure: add £2200 to Active

3.0 V6T (340) auto 3.0 V6T (440) auto S 4.0 V8TT (550) auto Turbo 2.9 V6 (462) auto S E-Hybrid 4.0 V8 TT (680) at Turbo S E-Hyb

0-60mph

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

1.6 PureTech (180) auto Allure 44.0 7.9 114 1.6 PureTech (225) auto GT 42.2 7.3 119 1.6 Hybrid (225) auto Allure 235.4 8.3 131 1.6 Hybrid (225) auto GT 235.4 8.3 131 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Active 63.6 9.7 93 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Allure 63.6 9.7 93 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Active 62.0 10.0 92 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Allure 62.0 10.0 92 2.0 BlueHDi (160) auto Allure 52.9 8.4 110 2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto GT 50.3 8.3 109 GT Line: add £1750 to Allure, 508 SW:: add £3800

79.2kWh (530) auto 4S 93.4kWh (680) auto Turbo 93.4kWh (761) auto Turbo S

PEUGEOT Dealers: 283 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

1.2T PureTech (110) Active 1.2T PureTech (130) Active 1.2T PureTech (130) auto Active 1.2T PureTech (130) Tech Edition 1.2T PureTech (130) auto Tech Ed 1.6 THP (225) auto GT 1.6 THP (260) GTi 1.5 BlueHDi (100) Active 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Active 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Active 1.5 BlueHDi (130) Tech Edition 1.5 BlueHDi (130) auto Tech Ed

508 Fastback - 4750x1859mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

5008 - 4641x1844mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

370Z - 4265x1845mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

3.8 V6TT (570) auto Pure 3.8 V6TT (570) auto Recaro 3.8 V6TT (570) auto Prestige 3.8 V6TT (570) auto Track Edition 3.8 V6TT (600) auto Nismo

0-60mph

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

e-NV200 Combi - 4560x1755mm, EU URO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

208 - 4055x1765mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Dealers: 18 / Warranty: TBC CAP N/A 3 Wheeler - 3260-1738mm, EURO-NC DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 (68) 3 Wheeler

40 kWh (150) auto Acenta N/A 7.9 0 21 £29845 62 kWh (217) auto e+ Tekna N/A 7.3 0 21 £39395 N-Connecta: add £1300 to Acenta, Te ekna: add £3 3000 to centa

3.7 V6 (328) 370Z 23.3 3.7 V6 (328) 370Z GT 23.3 3.7 V6 (328) auto 370Z GT 23.6 3.7 V6 (344) 370Z Nismo 23.2 50th Anniversary edition: add £4000 to GT

2.0 BlueHDi (180) auto GT 49.4 8.2 116 29 £28835 dd £1300 to Active ( ot 308 SW: add £950 (not GTi), Allure: ad BlueHDi 100), GT Line: add £450 to Te ech Edition

Rifter - 4403x1878mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

X-Trail - 4690x1820mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 60th

Dealers: 125 / Warranty: 5 years/62500 miles

1.2 Mivec (80) 3 1.2 Mivec (80) auto 4 4: add £2000 to 3

£17395 £18995 £22495 £23995 £20395 £23895 £25395 ekna

40 kWh (109) auto Visia N/A 14.0 0 21 £32755 Acenta: add £2400 to Visia, Evalia: add £4200 to Visia, 7 s ats: add £720 to all models

Countryman - 4299x1822mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 42.8 9.7 41.5 9.7 39.2 10.0 38.7 9.8 40.4 7.6 40.4 7.5 37.2 7.2 34.4 5.1 156.9 6.8 56.5 9.1 54.3 9.1 50.4 9.0 50.4 9.0

1.0 DIG-T (117) Visia 47.9 10.4 112 13 1.0 DIG-T (117) Acenta 47.9 10.4 112 13 1.0 DIG-T (117) Tekna 46.3 10.4 118 14 1.0 DIG-T (117) Premiere Edition 46.3 10.4 118 14 1.0 DIG-T (117) auto Acenta 46.3 11.1 110 13 1.0 DIG-T (117) auto Tekna 44.8 10.4 116 14 1.0 DIG-T (117) auto Premiere Ed 44.8 10.4 116 14 N-Connecta: add £2000 to Acenta, Te ekna+: add £1400 to

Leaf - 4490x1788mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 38th

Convertible - 3821x1727mm, EURO--NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.5T (136) Cooper 1.5T (136) auto Cooper 1.5T (136) Cooper ALL4 1.5T (136) auto Cooper ALL4 2.0T (192) Cooper S 2.0T (192) auto Cooper S 2.0T (192) auto Cooper S ALL4 2.0T (306) at John Cooper Works 1.5T (231) at Coopr S E PHEV ALL4 2.0 (150) Cooper D 2.0 (150) auto Cooper D 2.0 (150) Cooper D ALL4 2.0 (150) auto Cooper D ALL4 Sport/Exclusive: add £2900 (not JCW)

0-60mph

List price

MPG

0-60mph

CO2 Insurance group

Juke - 4210x1800mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Clubman - 4253x1800mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.5T (136) Cooper 45.6 8.8 1.5T (136) auto Cooper 44.8 8.7 2.0T (192) Cooper S 41.5 7.2 2.0T (192) auto Cooper S 43.5 7.1 2.0T (231) John Cooper Works 39.2 6.6 2.0T (231) auto John Cooper Wrks 39.2 6.5 Sport/Exclusive: add £2600 to Cooperr/Cooper S

0.9 IG-T (100) N-Sport 50.4 10.9 103 3 £17935 0.9 IG-T (100) auto Acenta 50.4 13.0 111 3 £17485 0.9 DIG-T (117) Acenta 47.9 9.9 114 3 £17305 1.5 dCi (90) Visia 52.3 11.9 107 8 £15300 1.5 dCi (90) Acenta 52.3 11.9 107 8 £17480 Visia+: add £950 to Visia, N-Sport: add d £1700 to Acenta (117), N-Connecta: add £1315 to Acenta (no ot 1.0 IG), Te ekna: ad £2525 to Acenta (not 1.0 IG)

NEW CAR PRICES

1.5T (136) auto Cooper 48.7 8.0 111 20 £19035 2.0T (192) Cooper S 43.5 6.8 139 28 £20925 2.0T (192) auto Cooper S 44.8 6.7 120 28 £22285 2.0T (192) auto 60 Years Edition 44.1 6.7 122 28 £29995 2.0T (231) John Cooper Works 40.4 6.3 162 29 £25950 2.0T (231) auto John Cooper Wrks 40.9 6.1 142 29 £27330 32.6kWh (184) auto Electric N/A 7.3 0 N/A £24400 MINI 5dr: add £700 to One/Cooper/Co ooper S, Spo ort/Exclu ive packs: add £2600 to Cooper/Cooper S

6.2 207 44 £57195 5.2 211 48 £69818 4.1 258 50 101155 5.0 70 50 £68358 3.8 85 50 123349

Cayenne Coupe - 4931x1983mm, EU URO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.3 TCe (140) Play 1.3 TCe (140) Iconic 1.3 TCe (140) Signature 1.3 TCe (140) auto Play 1.3 TCe (140) auto Iconic 1.3 TCe (140) auto Signature 1.7 Blue dCi (120) Play 1.7 Blue dCi (120) Iconic 1.7 Blue dCi (120) Signature 1.7 Blue dCi (120) auto Play 1.7 Blue dCi (120) auto Iconic 1.7 Blue dCi (120) auto Signature

40.9 40.9 40.9 39.8 39.8 39.8 51.4 51.4 51.4 47.1 47.1 47.1

10.3 10.3 10.3 10.4 10.4 10.4 12.1 12.1 12.1 13.0 13.0 13.0

156 156 156 160 160 160 145 146 146 158 158 158

16 15 17 16 15 17 14 14 15 14 14 15

£24195 £25495 £26995 £25795 £27095 £28595 £25995 £27295 £28795 £27595 £28895 £30395

Trafic Passenger - 4999-5399x1956m mm, EURO-N NCAP N/ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.6 dCi (120) SL27 Business 1.6 dCi (120) LL29 Business 1.6 dCi (120) SL27 Sport Nav 1.6 dCi (120) LL29 Sport Nav

40.4 40.4 40.4 40.4

12.6 12.6 12.6 12.6

166 N/A 166 N/A 166 N/A 166 N/A

£31401 £32841 £34641 £36081

122 122 128 128 125 125

£15730 £16930 £18330 £19630 £20270 £21570

Captur - 4122x1778mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 70th 0.9T TCe (90) Play 0.9T TCe (90) Iconic 1.3 TCe (130) Iconic 1.3 TCe (130) S Edition 1.3 TCe (150) auto Iconic 1.3 TCe (150) auto S Edition GT Line: add £1800 to Iconic

45.6 45.6 44.1 44.1 43.4 43.4

13.1 13.1 10.2 10.2 9.5 9.5

8 9 15 16 19 20

Special Issue 109

1.3 TCe (140) Play 44.1 10.4 147 19 £21095 1.3 TCe (140) Iconic 44.1 10.4 150 19 £22895 1.3 TCe (140) auto Play 43.5 9.6 147 19 £22695 1.3 TCe (140) auto Iconic 43.5 9.6 152 19 £24495 1.3 TCe (160) Iconic 42.8 9.9 149 21 £23895 1.5 Blue dCi (115) Play 60.1 11.7 131 17 £22895 1.5 Blue dCi (115) Iconic 60.1 11.7 135 17 £24695 1.5 Blue dCi (115) auto Play 55.4 11.5 128 17 £24495 1.5 Blue dCi (115) auto Iconic 55.4 11.5 135 17 £26295 1.7 Blue dCi (150) GT Line 52.3 TBC 142 24 £29095 1.7 Blue dCi (150) GT Line 4x4 47.9 TBC 155 24 £31395 S Edition: add £1500 to Iconic, GT Line e: add £3000 0 to Icon c

Koleos - 4672x1843mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 dCi (175) auto Iconic 2.0 dCi (175) auto Iconic 4WD GT Line: add £2000 to Iconic

46.3 10.2 143 20 £28495 40.9 10.2 150 23 £31495

ROLLS-ROYCE Dealers: 6 / Warranty: 4 years/unlimited d miles Cullinan - 5341x2164mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.75 V12 (571) auto

18.8 5.0 341 N/A 256190

Ghost - 5399-5569x1948mm, EURO-N NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.6 V12 (571) auto 6.6 V12 (571) auto EWB

20.2 4.9 327 N/A 235370 20.0 5.0 329 N/A 267590

Phantom - 5762-5982x2018mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.75 V12 (563) auto 6.75 V12 (563) auto EWB

19.1 5.8 318 N/A 364190 19.0 6.1 319 N/A 436190

1.0 TSI (115) Ecomotive SE 43.5 10.7 117 10 1.5 TSI Evo (150) SE 44.1 8.5 121 16 1.5 TSI Evo (150) FR 42.8 8.5 126 18 1.5 TSI Evo (150) Xcellence 42.2 8.5 126 18 1.5 TSI Evo (150) auto SE 42.8 8.6 121 16 1.5 TSI Evo (150) auto FR 40.9 8.6 124 18 1.5 TSI Evo (150) auto Xcellence 40.9 8.6 124 18 2.0 TSI (190) auto 4Drive FR 33.6 7.1 156 23 2.0 TSI (190) at 4Drive Xcellence 33.6 7.1 156 23 1.6 TDI (115) SE 56.5 11.5 115 12 1.6 TDI (115) Xcellence 53.3 11.5 120 12 1.6 TDI (115) auto SE 50.4 11.5 128 11 1.6 TDI (115) auto Xcellence 49.6 11.5 128 12 2.0 TDI (150) SE 52.3 8.8 120 17 2.0 TDI (150) FR 50.4 8.8 124 18 2.0 TDI (150) Xcellence 49.6 8.8 124 19 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 50.4 8.8 119 17 2.0 TDI (150) auto FR 48.7 8.8 123 18 2.0 TDI (150) auto Xcellence 47.9 8.8 123 19 2.0 TDI (150) auto 4Drive SE 44.1 8.8 145 17 2.0 TDI (150) auto 4Drive FR 43.5 8.8 145 18 2.0 TDI (150) at 4Drive Xcellence 43.5 8.8 145 18 2.0 TDI (190) auto 4Drive FR 40.9 7.6 140 23 2.0 TDI (190) at 4Drive Xcellence 40.9 7.6 140 23 SE Technology: add £1760 to SE, FR Sp port: add £1385 to F Xcellence Lux: add £2540 to Xcellence e

£22725 £24435 £27145 £27545 £25815 £28525 £28855 £32260 £32510 £24960 £28320 £26340 £29700 £26560 £29390 £29720 £27940 £30770 £31100 £29550 £32380 £32710 £33480 £33800 ,

Tarraco - 4735x1839mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 TSI Evo (150) SE 38.2 9.7 134 23 1.5 TSI Evo (150) Xcellence 37.7 9.7 137 23 1.5 TSI Evo (150) auto SE 39.2 9.5 133 19 1.5 TSI Evo (150) auto Xcellence 37.2 9.5 139 20 2.0 TSI Ev (190) at 4Driv Xcellence 31.0 8.0 166 29 2.0 TDI (150) SE 47.9 9.8 123 24 2.0 TDI (150) Xcellence 47.1 9.8 127 24 2.0 TDI (150) auto 4Drive SE 39.8 9.8 127 25 2.0 TDI (150) at 4Drive Xcellence 40.9 9.8 140 25 2.0 TDI (190) at 4Drive Xcellence 38.2 8.0 147 30 SE Tech: add £1010 to SE, Xcellence Lu ux: ad dd £172 25 to Xc

£28320 £30410 £29900 £31990 £35485 £30600 £32690 £33215 £35880 £37120 llence

SKODA Dealers: 135 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

Citogoe iV - 3597x1645mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★

Wraith - 5269x1947mm, EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.6 V12 (632) auto

DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

20.2 4.6 327 N/A 253430

Dawn - 5285x1947mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 6.6 V12 (571) auto

19.9 4.9 330 N/A 266170

SEAT Dealers: 128 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

Mii - 3556x1645mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 36.8kWh (83) Mii electric

N/A 12.3

0 12 £22800

Ibiza - 4061x1693mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 MPI (80) SE 52.3 14.7 108 3 1.0 TSI (95) SE 51.4 10.9 104 8 1.0 TSI (95) FR 51.4 10.9 104 10 1.0 TSI (95) Xcellence 51.4 10.9 104 9 1.0 TSI (115) FR 48.7 9.3 107 13 1.0 TSI (115) Xcellence 48.7 9.3 107 14 1.0 TSI (115) auto FR 45.6 9.5 111 13 1.0 TSI (115) auto Xcellence 45.6 9.5 111 14 1.6 TDI (95) SE 61.4 11.3 98 11 1.6 TDI (95) FR 57.6 11.3 103 11 1.6 TDI (95) Xcellence 57.6 11.3 103 11 SE Technology: add £630 to SE, FR Spo ort: add £1120 to FR Xcellence Lux: add £730 to Xcellence

£15645 £16135 £17955 £18105 £18545 £18535 £19645 £19635 £18960 £20800 £20950

1.0 TSI (115) SE 52.3 9.8 107 13 £18850 1.5 TSI Evo (130) SE 47.9 9.4 110 14 £19250 1.5 TSI Evo (130) FR 46.3 9.4 112 15 £22075 1.5 TSI Evo (130) Xcellence 45.6 9.4 112 16 £24765 1.5 TSI Evo (150) FR 47.9 8.2 112 19 £23590 1.5 TSI Evo (150) Xcellence 47.1 8.2 112 19 £25190 1.5 TSI Evo (150) auto FR 44.8 8.3 115 19 £24940 1.5 TSI Evo (150) auto Xcellence 44.1 8.3 115 19 £26540 2.0 TSI (290) Cupra 38.7 6.0 149 26 £29995 2.0 TSI (290) Cupra Lux 38.7 6.0 149 26 £31360 1.6 TDI (115) SE 57.6 9.8 109 12 £20060 2.0 TDI (150) SE 56.5 TBC 113 19 £21270 2.0 TDI (150) FR 55.4 TBC 115 21 £25205 2.0 TDI (150) Xcellence 54.3 TBC 115 21 £26805 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 57.6 TBC 112 19 £22620 2.0 TDI (150) auto FR 56.5 TBC 115 20 £26555 2.0 TDI (150) auto Xcellence 55.4 TBC 115 21 £28155 d £1200 o FR, SE Dynamic: add £785 to SE, FR Black Edition: add Xcellence Lux: add £825 to Xcellence, Leon ST esttate: add £995

Alhambra - 4854x1904mm, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A £31000 £32715 £34055 £38855

Arona - 4138x1780mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 TSI (95) SE 48.7 11.4 112 9 £17760 1.0 TSI (115) FR 47.9 9.8 110 12 £21000 1.0 TSI (115) Xcellence 47.9 9.8 110 12 £21790 1.0 TSI (115) auto SE 47.1 10.0 111 12 £19160 1.0 TSI (115) auto FR 46.3 10.0 111 12 £22100 1.0 TSI (115) auto Xcellence 47.1 10.0 111 12 £22810 1.5 TSI Evo (150) FR 48.7 8.2 110 18 £22370 1.6 TDI (95) SE 56.5 11.9 113 10 £19515 1.6 TDI (95) Xcellence 58.9 11.9 106 13 £23515 1.6 TDI (95) auto Xcellence 54.3 12.8 107 11 £24475 1.6 TDI (95) SE Technology Lux 56.5 11.9 114 12 £20990 SE Technology: add £925 to SE, FR Spo ort: ad dd £10 030 to o FR,, Xcellence Lux: add £1315 to Xcellence e

110 Special Issue

N/A 12.3 N/A 12.3

0 11 £20455 0 11 £22815

Fabia - 3997x1732mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 55th 1.0 MPI (60) S 47.9 16.4 108 1 £12535 1.0 MPI (60) SE 47.9 16.4 108 1 £13825 1.0 TSI (95) S 52.3 10.7 103 8 £14145 1.0 TSI (95) SE 51.4 10.7 103 9 £15435 1.0 TSI (95) SE L 50.4 10.7 103 9 £16840 1.0 TSI (95) Monte Carlo 50.4 10.7 103 9 £17460 1.0 TSI (115) SE 50.4 9.7 107 11 £16085 1.0 TSI (115) SE L 49.6 9.7 107 12 £17490 1.0 TSI (115) Monte Carlo 49.6 9.7 107 12 £18125 Estate: add £1020 to S, add £1165 to SE, add £910 0 to SE L, add £885 to Monte Carlo, Colour Edition: add £2245 to S

Scala - 4362x1793mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 TSI (95) S 1.0 TSI (95) SE 1.0 TSI (115) S 1.0 TSI (115) SE 1.0 TSI (115) auto SE 1.5 TSI (150) SE 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE 1.6 TDI (115) SE 1.6 TDI (115) auto SE SE L: add £1800 to SE

50.4 50.4 50.4 49.6 47.1 47.9 45.6 57.7 54.3

10.9 10.9 9.8 9.8 9.9 8.2 8.3 10.1 10.1

114 114 111 111 115 108 115 108 108

10 10 13 14 14 18 18 13 13

£16940 £18130 £17740 £18930 £20200 £20310 £21600 £20815 £22085

Octavia - 4670x1814mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 10th

Leon - 4282x1816mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 47th

1.4 TSI (150) SE 36.2 9.9 159 20 2.0 TDI (150) Ecomotive SE 44.1 10.3 135 20 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 41.5 10.3 140 20 2.0 TDI (177) Xcellence 40.4 9.3 147 22 SE L: add £3060 to SE, Xcellence: add £610 to 2.0 TDI SE L

36.8kWh (83) SE 36.8kWh (83) SE L

1.0 TSI (115) SE Drive 1.5 TSI (150) SE Drive 1.5 TSI (150) SE L 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE Drive 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE L 2.0 TSI (190) auto 4x4 SE L Estate 2.0 TSI (245) auto vRS 1.6 TDI (115) SE Drive 1.6 TDI (115) SE L 2.0 TDI (150) SE L 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE L 2.0 TDI (184) auto 4x4 vRS Octavia Estate: add £1200

50.4 51.4 50.4 46.3 46.3 35.3 37.7 56.5 55.4 55.4 54.3 44.8

9.9 8.7 8.7 8.7 8.7 6.8 6.7 10.3 10.3 10.4 8.9 7.7

111 111 111 115 115 150 142 109 109 111 110 137

15 20 18 20 18 21 29 15 13 19 18 24

£20310 £21565 £23140 £22815 £24390 £28285 £28765 £22345 £23920 £24680 £25890 £29865

1.5 TSI (150) SE 43.5 9.0 120 17 1.5 TSI (150) SE L 42.8 9.0 120 21 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE 41.5 9.2 123 17 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE L 40.9 9.2 123 21 2.0 TSI (190) auto SE L 38.2 7.7 139 26 2.0 TSI (272) at 4x4 SportLine Plus 33.2 5.6 159 31 1.4 TSI iV Hybrid (218) at SE L 33.2 5.6 35 26 1.6 TDI (120) S 50.4 11.1 110 14 1.6 TDI (120) SE 49.6 11.1 110 14 2.0 TDI (150) S 55.4 9.1 103 18 2.0 TDI (150) SE 55.4 9.1 103 18 2.0 TDI (150) SE L 55.4 9.1 103 22 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 54.3 8.3 103 18 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE L 53.3 9.1 103 22 2.0 TDI (190) auto SE L 48.7 8.3 117 26 2.0 TDI (190) auto 4x4 SE L 44.1 8.0 129 26 Estate: add £1320, SportLine Plus: add d £3720 to SE L (not TSI/2.0 TDI manual), Laurin & Klement: add £945 to Sport Plus (not 1.5 TSI/ 2.0 TDI 150)

116 116 116 113 113 116 112

8 9 11 11 17 17 11

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33.3 7.6 196 31 £31995 33.0 8.2 183 31 £32495

SUZUKI Dealers: 149 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles

Swift - 3840x1735mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 Dualjet (91) SZ3 1.0 Boosterjet (113) SZ-T 1.0 Boosterjet (68) SHVS SZ5 1.0 Boosterjet (68) auto SZ5 1.2 (68) SHVS SZ5 4x4 1.4 Boosterjet (140) Sport

55.4 51.4 51.8 46.9 49.7 47.1

11.9 10.6 10.6 10.0 11.9 8.1

106 110 98 121 101 125

22 25 27 27 27 35

£13249 £15049 £16749 £17899 £17599 £19249

12.2 12.2 11.8 12.2 11.8 11.5

107 107 98 106 109 105

9 9 9 9 9 9

£13249 £14749 £15749 £15049 £16549 £16749

Ignis - 3700x1690mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Kodiaq - 4697x1882mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 TSI (150) SE 5st 39.2 9.8 131 15 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE 5st 39.2 9.8 129 16 2.0 TSI (190) auto 4x4 SE L 7st 32.5 7.7 159 24 2.0 TSI (190) auto 4x4 Scout 7st 32.1 7.7 159 25 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 5st 47.9 9.8 126 17 2.0 TDI (150) 4x4 SE 5st 44.8 9.7 133 17 2.0 TDI (150) 4x4 Scout 7st 42.8 9.9 138 19 2.0 TDI (150) auto 4x4 SE 5st 44.1 9.8 144 17 2.0 TDI (150) auto 4x4 Scout 7st 42.2 10.0 138 19 2.0 TDI (190) auto 4x4 SE L 7st 40.4 8.6 145 23 2.0 TDI (190) auto 4x4 Scout 7st 39.8 8.6 145 23 2.0 BiTDI (239) auto 4x4 vRS 7st 35.3 7.0 164 29 7 seats: add £980 to SE, SE L: add £405 50 to SE, Edittion: ad to SE L, Sportline: add £165 to Scout, L&K: add £2 2165 to S

£26140 £27400 £35145 £37350 £29445 £30175 £36445 £31475 £37745 £36400 £38605 £44065 £2100 out

1.2 Dualjet (89) SZ3 1.2 Dualjet (89) SZ-T 1.2 Dualjet (89) SHVS SZ5 1.2 Dualjet (89) auto SZ-T 1.2 Dualjet (89) SHVS auto SZ5 1.2 Dualjet (89) SHVS SZ5 4x4

60.1 60.1 65.7 58.9 58.9 60.1

Jimny - 3480x1645mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5 (111) SZ4 Allgrip 1.5 (111) SZ5 Allgrip 1.5 (111) auto SZ5 Allgrip

41.5 11.4 154 13 £16249 41.5 11.4 154 14 £18749 37.7 N/A 170 14 £19749

SX4 S-Cross - 4300x1765mm, EURO-N NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

SMART Dealers: 48 / Warranty: 3 years/unlimite ed miles P ★★★★ EQ fortwo coupe - 2695x1663mm, EURO-NCAP DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 17.6kWh (82) at passion a’vanced N/A 11.6 0 N/A 17.6kWh (82) auto pulse premium N/A 11.6 0 N/A 17.6kWh (82) at prime exclusive N/A 11.6 0 N/A fortwo cabrio: add £2420 (not passion n advanced)), ediitio add £1495 to prime exclusive

£20350 £21500 £22650 one:

N/A 12.7 N/A 12.7 N/A 12.7

0 N/A £20785 0 N/A £21935 0 N/A £23085

SSANGYONG Dealers: 63 / Warranty: 7 years/150000 miles

Tivoli - 4195x1795mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.6 e-XGi (128) SE 44.1 12.0 149 16 1.6 e-XGi (128) EX 44.1 12.0 149 13 1.6 e-XGi (128) LE 39.2 11.0 167 13 1.6 e-XGi (128) auto Ultimate 39.2 11.0 167 13 1.6 e-XDi (115) ELX 65.7 12.0 113 15 1.6 e-XDi (115) auto Ultimate 47.9 12.0 123 15 ELX: add £1500 to EX, Ultimate: add £2000 to ELX X, Tivoli £750 to Ultimate models

1.0 Boosterjet (113) SZ4 1.0 Boosterjet (113) SZ-T 1.0 Boosterjet (113) auto SZ-T 1.0 Boosterjet (113) SZ-T Allgrip 1.4 Boosterjet (142) SZ5 Allgrip 1.4 B’jet (142) auto SZ5 Allgrip

44.9 44.9 40.4 39.2 38.8 37.7

11.0 11.0 12.4 12.0 10.2 10.2

120 120 131 127 141 141

16 21 21 20 24 24

£18249 £21499 £22849 £23299 £25399 £27199

121 129 129 131 131 139 133 133 143

13 13 12 17 19 19 19 19 17

£19849 £21349 £20974 £20689 £23349 £24849 £21814 £24474 £25974

Vitara - 4175x1775mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

EQ forfour - 3495x1665mm, EURO-N NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.0 Boosterjet (111) SZ-T 1.0 Boosterjet (111) SZ-T Allgrip 1.0 Boosterjet (111) auto SZ-T 1.4 Boosterjet (140) SZ-T 1.4 Boosterjet (140) SZ5 1.4 Boosterjet (140) SZ5 Allgrip 1.4 Boosterjet (140) auto SZ-T 1.4 Boosterjet (140) auto SZ5 1.4 B’jet (140) auto SZ5 Allgrip

45.9 39.4 47.1 43.6 43.6 37.7 39.8 39.8 36.6

11.5 12.0 12.5 9.5 9.5 10.2 9.5 9.5 10.2

TESLA £14495 £15495 £17745 £19995 £18495 £21495 LV: add

Korando - 4410x1830mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.2d (178) 2WD SE 2.2d (178) 4WD ELX 2.2d (178) auto 4WD ELX LE: add £2000 to SE

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1.0 TSI (115) SE 44.8 10.6 117 10 £22240 1.5 TSI (150) SE 44.8 8.9 118 14 £23590 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE 42.8 9.0 120 14 £24890 2.0 TSI (190) auto 4x4 SportLine 33.2 7.3 156 21 £32365 1.6 TDI (115) SE 49.6 11.0 118 10 £24495 1.6 TDI (115) auto SE 47.9 11.2 125 10 £25795 2.0 TDI (150) SE 52.3 9.0 120 16 £25555 2.0 TDI (150) auto 4x4 SE 43.5 9.2 142 14 £28775 2.0 TDI (150) auto 4x4 Scout 42.8 9.2 142 16 £33530 2.0 TDI (190) auto 4x4 SE L 41.5 7.4 138 21 £32245 2.0 TDI (190) auto 4x4 Scout 41.5 7.4 138 22 £34390 SE L: add £2370 to SE, SportLine: add £2010 to SE L 1.5 TSI and 2.0 TDI, Edition: add £920 to SportLine (n not 2.0 TSI)

42.8 9.9 139 24 £18995 48.7 9.9 152 25 £23995 35.3 9.9 152 25 £25495

Dealers: 17 / Warranty: 4 years/50000 miles Model 3 - 4694x1849mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 75kWh (283) auto RWD 75kWh (412) at AWD Long Range 75kWh (473) at AWD Perf

N/A 5.0 N/A 4.4 N/A 3.2

100kWh (417) auto AWD Long 100kWh (750) at AWD P’formance

N/A 3.8 N/A 2.6

0 50 £81200 0 50 £95800

Model X - 5037x2271mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 100kWh (417) auto AWD Long 100kWh (750) at AWD P’formance

2.2D (180) EX 36.2 11.3 204 28 £29995 2.2D (180) auto Ultimate 34.0 11.9 218 32 £39495 Auto: add £2000, ELX: add £4500 to EX

Dealers: 206 / Warranty: 5 years/100000 0 miles

Musso - 5095x1950mm, EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

0 48 £42000 0 50 £50500 0 50 £55500

Model S - 4970x1964mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Rexton - 4850x1960mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

N/A 4.7 N/A 2.9

0 50 £86200 0 50 100400

TOYOTA Aygo - 3465x1615mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 43rd 93 93 95 93 95 93 95

6 7 7 7 7 7 7

£9825 £11675 £12375 £12840 £13540 £13105 £13805

107 116 112 84 89 91

3 9 9 8 36 8

£15375 £16175 £17175 £18745 £20390 £20650

XV - 4465x1800mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Corolla - 4370x1790mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.6i (114) auto AWD SE 2.0 e-Boxer (150) auto AWD SE SE Premium: add £2000 to SE

1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Icon 62.8 10.9 76 15 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Design 62.8 10.9 83 15 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) at GR Sport 62.8 10.9 83 14 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Excel 62.8 10.9 83 15 2.0 VVT-i Hybrid (180) auto Design 54.3 7.9 89 21 2.0 VVT-i Hybrid (180) at GR Sport 54.3 7.9 89 20 2.0 VVT-i Hybrid (180) auto Excel 54.3 7.9 89 21 Icon Tech: add £1050 to Icon, Touring Sports estatte: add

£24140 £26215 £28025 £28230 £27940 £29750 £29955 1270

2.2 (178) 4WD EX 35.8 N/A 211 40 £26331 2.2 (178) auto 4WD Rhino 32.8 N/A 226 42 £35031 Auto: add £1250 to Rebel/Saracen, Re ebel: add £2 2500 to E , Saracen: add £5000 to EX

£24475 £27725 £25875 £29125 £30755 £38665 £34755 £25115 £26490 £24365 £25740 £28650 £27140 £30390 £32480 £34040 .5 ine

1.0 VVT-i (72) x 3dr 53.3 1.0 VVT-i (72) x-play 5dr 53.3 1.0 VVT-i (72) auto x-play 5dr 51.4 1.0 VVT-i (72) x-trend 5dr 53.3 1.0 VVT-i (72) auto x-trend 5dr 51.4 1.0 VVT-i (72) x-cite 5dr 53.3 1.0 VVT-i (72) auto x-cite 5dr 51.4 5dr: add £300, x-clusiv: add £920 to x--cite

13.8 13.8 15.2 13.8 15.2 13.8 15.2

Impreza - 4460x1775mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Yaris - 3885x1695mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 58th

1.6i (114) auto AWD SE

1.0 VVT-i (72) Icon 1.5 VVT-i (111) Icon 1.5 VVT-i (111) auto Icon 1.5 VVT-i Hybrid (100) auto Icon 1.5 VVT-i Hybrid (100) at GR Sport 1.5 VVT-i Hybrid (100) auto Excel Y-20: add £1650 to 1.5 Icon

35.9 12.4 151 13 £26325

Levorg Sport Tourer - 4690x1780mm m, EURO-NC CAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0i (150) auto AWD GT

32.6 8.9 167 24 £33995

35.3 13.9 157 15 £27995 35.7 10.7 149 15 £30995

Forester - 4595x1795mm, EURO-NCA AP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 e-Boxer (150) auto AWD XE Premium: add £3000 to XE

11.1 11.1 9.9 10.0 8.3 8.4 10.2

2.0 (200) SE Lux 2.0 (200) auto SE Lux

Karoq - 4382x1841mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

17.6kWh (82) at passion a’vanced 17.6kWh (82) auto pulse premium 17.6kWh (82) at prime exclusive

BRZ - 4240x1775mm, EURO-NCAP N/A A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Dealers: 70 / Warranty: 5 years/100000 miles

Kamiq - 4241x1793mm, EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 49.6 49.6 47.9 45.6 47.1 44.1 56.5

53.3 10.4 112 11 £23085

SUBARU

Superb - 4856-4861x1864mm, EURO--NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.0 TSI (95) S 1.0 TSI (95) SE 1.0 TSI (115) SE 1.0 TSI (115) auto SE 1.5 TSI (150) SE 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE 1.6 TDI (115) SE

MPG 1.6 TDI (115) auto SE SE L: add £2045 to SE

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NEW CAR PRICES

Ateca - 4363x1841mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 37th

Kadjar - 4489x1836mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 52nd

£17700 £19135 £19935 £21185 £21315 £22585 £21835

34.7 11.8 154 23 £35995

Outback - 4820x1840mm, EURO-NCA AP N//A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.5i (175) auto AWD SE Premium: add £3015 to SE

33.0 10.2 166 19 £32995

49.9 48.0 48.1 60.1 60.1 60.1

15.3 11.0 11.2 11.8 11.8 11.8

Corolla saloon - 4370x1790mm, EUR RO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Icon 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Design Icon Tech: add £1050 to Icon

62.8 11.0 77 15 £24140 62.8 11.0 83 15 £26215

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14 14 14 14 21 23

£24245 £25185 £28970 £28355 £32125 £34095

N/A 9.6

0 N/A £66000

Camry - 4890x1815mm EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.5 VVT-i Hybrid (215) auto Design 2.5 VVT-i Hybrid (215) auto Excel

53.3 8.3 98 31 £29995 53.3 8.3 101 32 £31295

Prius+ - 4615x1775mm EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (136) auto Icon 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (136) auto Excel

68.4 10.6 106 11 £27835 59.6 10.6 112 12 £30180

Proace Verso - 4609-5309x1920mm EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.5D (120) Combi Medium 1.5D (120) Shuttle Medium 2.0D (150) Shuttle Medium 2.0D (150) Shuttle Long 2.0D (150) Family Compact 2.0D (150) Family Medium 2.0D (180) auto Family Compact 2.0D (180) auto Family Medium 2.0D (180) auto VIP Long

47.1 47.1 47.1 41.9 41.9 41.9 40.6 40.6 40.6

12.0 12.0 13.0 13.0 13.0 13.0 8.8 8.8 8.8

128 N/A 128 N/A 144 27 145 26 142 27 144 27 144 28 144 27 150 30

£28455 £31800 £33830 £34315 £35230 £36800 £37645 £39215 £47325

RAV4 - 4600x1855mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.5 VVT-i Hyb (215) auto Icon FWD 50.4 8.4 102 25 £30635 2.5 VVT-i Hyb (215) at Design FWD 50.4 8.4 105 26 £32190 2.5 VVT-i Hyb (219) a Design AWD 48.7 8.1 101 28 £34430 Excel: add £2420 to Design, Dynamic: add £790 to o Exccel

Hilux - 5330x1855mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 13.2 12.8 13.2 12.8 12.8

185 N/A 204 N/A 178 N/A 189 N/A 189 N/A

£27245 £32570 £32385 £33885 £52821

31.7 31.7 29.7 29.7 29.7 29.7 29.7 29.7

12.1 12.1 12.7 12.7 12.7 12.7 12.7 12.7

199 203 212 201 207 207 207 207

41 41 41 41 41 41 40 41

1.5 (100) Turbo D Edition M 1.5 (120) Turbo D Edition L 2.0 (150) Turbo D Elite M 2.0 (150) Turbo D Elite L 2.0 (180) Turbo D auto Elite M 2.0 (180) Turbo D auto Elite L

46.2 47.1 41.9 41.9 40.5 40.5

17.1 14.3 12.0 12.0 10.4 10.4

131 N/A 128 N/A 149 N/A 152 N/A 151 N/A 151 N/A

£28610 £30595 £42105 £43410 £42760 £43740

Crossland X - 4212x1765mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 (83) Griffin 47.1 13.6 106 8 1.2 (83) Business Edition Nav 47.1 13.6 106 8 1.2 (110) Turbo Griffin 47.1 10.2 109 13 1.2 (110) Turbo Business Ed Nav 47.1 10.2 109 14 1.2 (130) Turbo Business Ed Nav 47.9 9.3 108 18 1.2 (130) Turbo auto Griffin 44.1 9.5 113 17 1.2 (130) Turbo at Business Ed Nav 44.1 9.5 113 18 1.5 (102) Turbo D Griffin 61.4 11.0 106 14 1.5 (102) Turbo D Business Ed Nav 61.4 11.0 106 14 1.5 (120) Turbo D auto Griffin 55.4 10.8 103 14 1.5 (120) Turbo D at Business Ed N 55.4 10.8 103 14 SRi Nav: add £1150 to Griffin, Elite: ad dd £750 to Business Nav, Elite Nav: add £1800 to Business Edition Navv

£18535 £18845 £19625 £19935 £20685 £21435 £21995 £20405 £20715 £22345 £22655 dition

£35295 £36050 £37695 £40240 £40995 £41600 £49845 £54645

GT86 - 4240x1775mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 (200) GT 86 33.2 7.6 196 34 £27830 2.0 (200) GT 86 Pro 33.2 7.6 196 34 £28980 2.0 (200) auto GT 86 Pro 32.9 8.2 183 34 £30320 Club Series Blue Edition: add £545 to Pro

1.2 (130) Turbo Business Ed Nav 43.5 9.5 115 12 £23915 1.2 (130) Turbo SE Premium 43.5 9.5 115 15 £26340 1.2 (130) Turbo at Business Ed Nav 40.9 9.8 112 12 £25735 1.2 (130) Turbo auto SE Premium 40.9 9.8 112 14 £28160 1.6 Hybrid (225) auto Business Ed 192.0 8.6 35 23 £32390 1.6 Hybrid4 (300) at Business Ed 204.0 5.9 34 29 £36790 1.6 Hybrid4 (300) auto Ultimate 204.0 5.9 34 32 £46650 1.5 (130) Turbo D Business Ed Nav 55.4 10.2 108 18 £25475 1.5 (130) Turbo D SE Premium 55.4 10.2 108 15 £27910 1.5 (130) Turbo D at Bus Ed Nav 54.3 9.9 108 21 £27275 1.5 (130) Turbo D at SE Premium 54.3 9.9 108 22 £29710 Griffin: add £1830 to SE Premium, Elitte Nav: add £2325 t SE Premium, Elite Nav Premium: add £57 70 to Elite Nav, Hybr d SE Nav: add £4310 to Hybrid Business Ed d, Hybrid SRi Nav: ad £6110 to Hybrid Business Ed, Hybrid4 SRi Nav: add £4710 to Hybrid4 Business Ed, Hybrid4 Elite Nav: add £6 6610 to Hybrid4 Business Ed

VOLKSWAGEN GR Supra - 4379x1854mm, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0T (340) GR Supra 3.0T (340) GR Supra Pro

34.5 4.3 170 N/A £52695 34.5 4.3 170 N/A £54000

VAUXHALL Dealers: 338 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles Corsa - 4060x1765mm, EURO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.2 (75) SE 53.3 12.4 93 10 £15750 1.2 Turbo (100) SE 52.3 9.3 96 16 £16550 1.2 Turbo (100) SRi 52.3 9.3 96 17 £18700 1.2 Turbo (100) Elite Nav 52.3 9.3 96 17 £18990 1.2 Turbo (100) auto SE 48.7 10.2 99 16 £18280 1.2 Turbo (100) auto Elite Nav 48.7 10.2 99 17 £20720 1.2 Turbo (100) auto Ultimate Nav 48.7 10.2 99 17 £25990 1.5 Turbo D (102) SE 70.6 9.6 85 20 £17760 1.5 Turbo D (102) Elite Nav 70.6 9.6 85 18 £20200 50kWh (136) SE Nav N/A 7.6 0 22 £30665 50kWh (136) Elite Nav N/A 7.6 0 23 £33310 Premium: add £780 to SE, add £1240 to SRi, add £1360 to Elite Nav

Astra - 4370x1809mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 64th 1.2 Turbo (110) SE 1.2 Turbo (110) SRi 1.2 Turbo (130) SE 1.2 Turbo (145) SRi 1.2 Turbo (145) Elite Nav 1.4 Turbo (145) auto SE 1.4 Turbo (145) auto SRi 1.4 Turbo (145) auto Elite Nav 1.5 Turbo D (105) SE 1.5 Turbo D (105) SRi 1.5 Turbo D (122) SE

54.3 54.3 54.3 54.3 54.3 48.7 48.7 48.7 65.7 65.7 64.2

10.2 10.2 9.9 9.7 9.7 9.3 9.3 9.3 10.2 10.2 9.7

99 99 99 99 99 115 115 115 90 90 92

11 11 10 10 10 14 14 14 15 15 18

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£18885 £21895 £19185 £22445 £23955 £20925 £23935 £25445 £19885 £22895 £20330

1.0 (60) up! 3dr 52.3 14.9 100 2 £12440 1.0 (60) up! beats 3dr 51.4 14.9 100 3 £13490 1.0 (60) R-Line 3dr 51.4 14.9 101 4 £14280 1.0 TSI (115) GTI 3dr 51.4 8.8 110 14 £15895 5dr: add £400 to 3dr, White/Black Edittion: add £6 685 to up!

Polo - 4053x1751mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.0 (80) S 51.4 15.4 106 1 1.0 (80) SE 51.4 15.4 106 1 1.0 TSI (95) SE 50.4 10.8 105 8 1.0 TSI (95) auto SE 45.6 10.8 108 8 1.0 TSI (115) SEL 49.6 9.5 107 11 1.0 TSI (115) auto SEL 45.6 9.5 108 11 2.0 TSI (200) auto GTI 39.8 6.7 138 26 1.6 TDI (95) SEL 55.4 11.2 97 9 beats: add £1060 to SE, R-Line: add £1 1900 to 1.0 TSI (95) S £750 to 1.0 TSI (115) SEL, GTI+: add £1500 to GTI

£15390 £16265 £16980 £18330 £19060 £20410 £22005 £20415 /add

Golf - 4255x1799mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 18th 50.4 11.9 50.4 9.8 47.9 9.1 47.1 8.3 44.8 8.3 141.2 8.3 37.7 6.2 36.7 5.6 32.8 4.7 57.6 10.2 58.9 10.2 55.4 TBA 53.3 8.7

111 106 113 119 116 45 143 153 164 109 108 112 116

11 12 15 15 15 19 33 34 39 15 13 18 18

£21120 £22300 £23340 £24115 £25530 £32180 £33180 £37830 £36345 £22495 £24145 £25585 £27000

£2515 to SEL

Golf SV - 4351x1807mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.5 TSI (150) Match 38.7 10.0 137 17 1.5 TSI (150) auto Match 37.2 9.5 139 17 2.0 TSI (190) auto 4MOTION SEL 30.7 7.8 165 22 2.0 TDI (150) Match 46.3 9.7 129 17 2.0 TDI (150) auto Match 44.1 9.7 135 17 2.0 TDI (150) at 4MOTION Match 39.2 9.8 146 27 2.0 TDI (190) at 4MOTION Match 38.7 8.2 147 22 2.0 BiTDI (240) auto 4MOTION SEL 34.9 6.8 167 29 SEL: add £1505 to Match, R-Line Tech: add £2315 to SEL

1.0 TSI (115) S 1.5 TSI (130) Match 1.5 TSI (150) auto Match 1.6 TDI (115) S 1.6 TDI (115) Match 2.0 TDI (150) auto Match GT: add £1850 to Match

48.7 49.6 43.5 54.3 55.4 52.3

10.5 9.6 8.8 11.1 11.1 9.3

114 N/A 116 16 120 19 113 12 113 13 120 18

£22260 £24630 £26955 £24380 £25165 £27980

1.5 TSI (150) SE 45.6 8.7 122 20 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE 42.8 8.7 121 20 2.0 TSI (190) auto SEL 37.2 7.5 143 25 1.4 TSI (218) PHEV auto GTE 217.3 7.4 34 26 1.6 TDI (120) auto SE 49.6 11.3 109 15 2.0 TDI (150) SE 57.6 8.9 105 21 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 55.4 8.9 106 21 2.0 TDI (190) auto SEL 49.6 7.9 117 25 2.0 TDI (190) at 4MOTION R-Line 45.6 7.7 129 26 2.0 BiTDI (240) at 4MOTION R-Line 38.2 6.4 151 32 2.0 TDI (190) at 4MOTION Alltrack 39.2 8.0 133 25 Estate: add £1855, SEL: add £1800 to SE, R-Line: add £280 (not 1.6 TDI), GTE Advance: add £2550 to GTE

£25580 £27180 £30480 £36600 £27840 £27540 £29140 £32480 £37560 £40655 £39255 to SEL

Arteon - 4862x1871mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 36.2 36.2 34.0 52.3 50.4 52.3 50.4 48.7 44.8 37.7

7.7 7.7 TBA 9.4 9.1 9.4 9.1 8.0 7.8 6.5

Tiguan Allspace - 4701x1839mm, EU URO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 29th £31175 £32775 £37190 £33690 £35610 £37210 £38690 £42370

Amarok - 5254x1954mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Passat - 4873x1832mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

2.0 TSI (190) auto SE 2.0 TSI (190) auto Elegance 2.0 TSI (272) auto 4MOT Elegance 2.0 TDI (150) SE 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 2.0 TDI (150) Elegance 2.0 TDI (150) auto Elegance 2.0 TDI (190) auto Elegance 2.0 TDI (190) auto 4MOT Elegance 2.0 BiTDI (240) auto 4MT Elegance R-Line: add £785 to Elegance

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

0-60mph

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

35.8kWh (115) auto e-Golf N/A 10.4 0 26 £31075 Golf Estate: add £795 (selected mode els), GT Editio on: add 1825 to Match Edition (not 1.0 TSI), R-Line Ediition: add £3 3120 to atch Edition (TSI 150/TDI 115/150)

144 26 144 26 159 31 112 21 118 21 112 N/A 118 N/A 121 25 130 27 155 32

£33205 £35205 £40475 £33105 £34505 £35105 £36505 £37895 £39425 £41390

1.5 TSI (150) SE 39.8 8.9 138 17 £28230 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE 40.4 8.9 126 17 £29490 2.0 TDI (115) auto S 48.7 11.4 127 N/A £28475 2.0 TDI (115) auto SE 47.9 11.4 127 N/A £30150 2.0 TDI (150) SE 47.9 9.3 126 17 £30385 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 46.3 9.3 129 17 £31685 SE Family: add £1165 to SE, SEL: add £1595 to SE, R-Line: dd £2445 to SE

Sharan - 4854x1904mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 1.4 TSI (150) S 36.2 9.9 159 19 1.4 TSI (150) auto SE Nav 33.2 9.9 161 19 2.0 TDI (150) S 44.8 10.3 135 19 2.0 TDI (150) auto S 42.2 10.3 140 19 2.0 TDI (177) auto SE Nav 40.4 9.3 147 23 SE Nav: add £3205 to S, SEL: add £324 45 to SE Nav (2.0 TDI

£30495 £34815 £33065 £34485 £38500 nly)

T6 Transporter - 4904-5304x1904mm m, EURO-NC CAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 TDI (102) Shuttle S 42.2 16.2 175 N/A 2.0 TDI (150) auto Shuttle S 42.2 12.4 174 N/A 2.0 TDI (102) Shuttle SE 42.2 16.2 175 N/A 2.0 TDI (150) auto Shuttle SE 42.2 12.4 174 N/A 2.0 TDI (199) auto Shuttle SE 40.9 9.3 179 N/A 2.0 TDI (150) auto Caravelle SE 42.2 13.0 175 25 2.0 TDI (199) auto C’velle SE LWB 39.8 9.9 186 33 2.0 TDI (150) auto Caravelle Exec 42.8 13.0 171 26 2.0 TDI (199) auto Caravelle Exec 40.4 9.9 185 34 2.0 TDI (199) at 4MOT C’velle Ex 34.0 10.1 217 35 2.0 TDI (150) at California Beach 41.5 14.5 178 25 2.0 TDI (150) auto Cali Ocean 40.9 14.5 179 29 2.0 TDI (199) auto Cali Ocean 38.7 11.0 191 36 2.0 TDI (199) auto 4MOT Cali Oc’n 33.2 11.1 221 37 LWB: add £960 to Shuttle, add £2298 to Ca aravelle e (not Ex

£34989 £39387 £37179 £41577 £44409 £47565 £50391 £49281 £52107 £55684 £48063 £58515 £61882 £64942 cutive)

T-Roc - 4234x1819mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A £20490 £24080 £25580 £33485 £38450 £23035 £26465 £27965 to SE,

Tiguan - 4486x1839mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 29th 1.5 TSI (130) S 42.2 10.2 N/A 11 1.5 TSI (150) S 41.5 9.3 131 14 1.5 TSI (150) auto Match 38.7 9.2 134 15 2.0 TSI (190) auto 4MOTION SEL 31.4 7.5 161 21 2.0 TSI (230) auto 4MOTION SEL 30.1 6.3 175 36 2.0 TDI (150) S 49.6 9.3 125 15 2.0 TDI (150) auto Match 46.3 9.3 131 16 2.0 TDI (150) 4MOTION S 44.1 9.4 145 15 2.0 TDI (150) auto 4MOTION S 41.5 9.4 140 15 2.0 TDI (190) at 4MOTION Match 39.8 7.9 147 20 2.0 BiTDI (240) auto 4MOTION SEL 35.3 6.2 162 26 Match: add £2760 to S, SEL: add £1505 to Match, R-Line T

Touareg - 5008x1984mm, EURO-NCA AP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 3.0 V6 TSI (340) auto 4MOT SEL 26.6 5.9 205 41 3.0 V6 TDI (231) auto 4MOT SE 34.4 7.5 173 36 3.0 V6 TDI (231) auto 4MOT SEL 34.4 7.5 173 38 3.0 V6 TDI (286) auto 4MOT SE 34.4 6.1 173 40 3.0 V6 TDI (286) auto 4MOT SEL 34.4 6.1 173 41 dd £3500 to SEL, R-Li SEL Tech: add £1350 to SEL, R-Line: ad add £3100 to R-Line, Black Edition: ad dd £2500 to R-Line T

£53255 £45445 £49645 £48045 £52245 e Tech: ch

VOLVO Dealers: 117 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles S60 - 4761x1916mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 T5 (250) auto R-Design Plus 2.0 T8 (390) at AWD R-Design Plus 2.0 T8 (405) at AWD Polestar Eng Inscription Plus: add £900 to T5

39.8 6.5 152 N/A £38285 176.5 4.6 42 N/A £49805 104.5 4.4 48 N/A £56105

2.0 T4 (190) auto Momentum Plus 38.7 6.7 157 31 £35035 2.0 T5 (250) auto Momentum Plus 38.7 6.7 157 31 £37035 2.0 T5 (250) at Cross C’try AWD 35.8 6.8 164 31 £40285 2.0 T8 (390) auto R-Design Plus 166.1 4.9 42 N/A £50905 2.0 T8 (405) auto Polestar Eng’d 104.5 4.6 48 N/A £57205 2.0 D3 (150) Momentum Plus 55.4 9.9 119 24 £34665 2.0 D3 (150) auto Momentum Plus 51.4 9.9 123 24 £36215 2.0 D4 (190) Momentum Plus 55.4 7.9 119 30 £35665 2.0 D4 (190) auto Momentum Plus 52.3 7.9 123 30 £37215 2.0 D4 (190) at Cross C’try AWD 47.9 8.2 135 30 £40785 R-Design Plus: add £2500 to T5, add £3000 to D3//D4, Inscription Plus: add £3000 to T5, add £3500 to D3/D4

S90 - 4963x1895mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 T4 (190) auto Momentum Plus 37.7 8.7 155 27 £37835 2.0 T5 (250) auto R-Design Plus 37.7 6.8 154 27 £44285 2.0 T8 (390) at AWD R-Design Plus 117.7 5.1 40 42 £57655 2.0 D4 (190) auto Momentum Plus 50.4 8.2 121 27 £38465 2.0 D5 (235) at AWD R-Design Plus 43.5 7.0 142 33 £47735 R-Design Plus: add £2500 to T4, add £3000 to D4, Inscription Plus: 5/T8/D5 add £3250 to T4, add £3750 to D4, add £750 to T5

V90 - 4936x1895mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 T4 (190) auto Momentum Plus 37.7 8.9 158 27 2.0 T5 (250) auto R-Design Plus 37.7 7.0 157 27 2.0 T5 (250) at Cross C’try + AWD 32.5 7.4 172 40 2.0 T6 (310) at R-Design Plus AWD 32.5 6.3 179 40 2.0 T6 (310) at Cross C’try + AWD 32.5 6.3 183 40 2.0 T8 (390) at AWD R-Design Plus 117.7 5.3 49 42 2.0 D4 (190) auto Momentum Plus 50.4 8.5 129 27 2.0 D4 (190) at Cross C’try + AWD 50.4 8.8 139 28 2.0 D5 (235) at R-Design Plus AWD 43.5 7.2 146 33 2.0 D5 (235) at Cross C’try + AWD 43.5 7.5 148 34 0 to D4, Inscrription: R-Design: add £2500 to T4, add £3000 £3250 to T4, add £3750 to D4, add £750 to T5/T8//D5

£39835 £46285 £48660 £52310 £52660 £59655 £40465 £46485 £49235 £50610 dd

XC40 - 4425x1910mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.0 TSI (95) S 47.9 11.5 116 8 £17395 1.0 TSI (95) SE 47.1 11.5 116 8 £19245 1.0 TSI (115) SE 47.1 10.2 116 10 £19995 1.0 TSI (115) auto SE 44.8 10.2 114 10 £21495 1.5 TSI (150) auto SEL 44.1 8.5 118 N/A £24910 1.6 TDI (95) SE 54.3 10.2 110 8 £21955 1.6 TDI (95) auto SE 51.4 10.2 110 8 £23455 SEL: add £2105 to SE (not 1.0 TSI 95), R-Line: add £190 00 to SEL

1.0 TSI (115) S 47.9 10.1 123 11 1.5 TSI (150) SE 44.8 8.4 123 16 1.5 TSI (150) auto SE 42.2 8.4 124 16 2.0 TSI (190) auto 4MOTION SEL 34.4 7.2 155 23 2.0 TSI (300) auto 4MOTION R 32.5 4.8 176 34 1.6 TDI (115) S 53.3 10.9 115 17 2.0 TDI (150) SE 52.3 8.8 123 17 2.0 TDI (150) auto SE 51.4 8.8 123 17 SE: add £1665 to S, Design: add £700 to SE, SEL: add £232 R-Line: add £1925 to SEL (not 1.0 TSI)

3.0 V6 TDI (204) at 4MTN Trndline 34.9 9.1 212 41 £35403 3.0 V6 TDI (204) at 4MTN Highline 34.9 9.1 212 41 £40299 3.0 V6 TDI (258) at 4MTN Highline 33.6 7.4 220 46 £44655 Black Edition: add £2586 to Highline

V60 - 4761x1916mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Touran - 4527x1829mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

T-Cross - 4235x1782mm, EURO-NCAP P ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Dealers: 223 / Warranty: 3 years/60000 miles up! - 3600x1641mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.0 TSI (115) S 1.0 TSI (115) Match Edition 1.5 TSI (130) Match Edition 1.5 TSI (150) Match Edition 1.5 TSI (150) auto Match Edition 1.4 TSI PHEV (204) auto GTE 2.0 TSI (245) at GTI Performance 2.0 TSI (290) auto GTI TCR 2.0 TSI (300) auto 4MOTION R 1.6 TDI (115) S 1.6 TDI (115) Match Edition 2.0 TDI (150) Match Edition 2.0 TDI (150) auto Match Edition

0-60mph

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

List price £22540 £24840 £21340 £22740 £23880 £25340 -£1000

Grandland X - 4477x1856mm, EURO O-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Land Cruiser - 4565-4840x1885mm, EURO-NCAP P N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.8 D-4D (179) Utility 5st 3dr 2.8 D-4D (179) Utility 5st 5dr 2.8 D-4D (179) auto Utility 7st 5dr 2.8 D-4D (179) auto Active 5st 3dr 2.8 D-4D (179) auto Active 5st 5dr 2.8 D-4D (179) auto Active 7st 5dr 2.8 D-4D (179) auto Icon 7st 5dr 2.8 D-4D (179) at Invincible 7st 5dr

1.2T (110) Turbo Energy 42.4 11.9 122 8 1.2T (130) Turbo auto Energy N/A N/A 119 11 1.5 (100) Turbo D Design 50.8 12.7 107 9 1.5 (100) Turbo D Energy 50.8 12.7 107 9 1.5 (130) Turbo D Energy 50.9 10.6 111 12 1.5 (130) Turbo D auto Energy 50.7 11.4 106 12 Elite: add £1050 to Energy (selected modells) XL: add £90 to selected models, 7-seats: add £500 (selected models)

Vivaro Life - 4956-5306x1920mm, EU URO-NCAP N/A DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Icon 58.9 11.0 86 15 £25625 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Design 58.9 11.0 86 15 £28005 2.0 VVT-i Hybrid (184) auto Design 54.3 8.2 92 23 £29645 Excel: add £2105 to Design, Dynamic: add £2245 to Desig

40.4 36.2 40.4 36.2 36.2

1.5 (140) Turbo Design 46.3 9.3 122 14 £20045 1.5 (165) Turbo Design 46.3 8.4 122 16 £20345 1.5 (165) Turbo SRi 46.3 8.4 122 17 £22815 1.5 (165) Turbo auto Design 42.2 8.8 123 16 £21985 1.5 (165) Turbo auto SRi 42.2 8.8 123 17 £24455 1.6 (110) Turbo D Design 57.7 11.1 106 13 £20445 1.6 (110) Turbo D SRi 57.7 11.1 106 14 £22915 1.6 (136) Turbo D Design 57.7 9.9 106 15 £21745 1.6 (136) Turbo D SRi 57.7 9.9 106 16 £24215 1.6 (136) Turbo D auto Design 51.4 10.2 121 15 £22945 1.6 (136) Turbo D auto SRi 51.4 10.2 121 16 £25415 2.0 (170) Turbo D SRi 50.4 8.4 137 20 £25935 2.0 (170) Turbo D auto SRi 46.3 8.4 145 20 £27635 2.0 (210) BiTurb D at 4x4 Elite Nav 40.9 7.4 176 27 £35460 2.0 (210) BiTurbo D auto 4x4 GSi 37.7 7.4 187 28 £42520 Tech Line: add £590 to SRi, SRi VX-Line e: add £2010 to SRi, Elite Nav: add £3820 to SRi

Combo Life - 4403-4753x1921mm, EU URO-NCAP ★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

C-HR - 4360x1795mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 14th

2.4 D-4D (150) Double Cab Active 2.4 D-4D (150) auto Dbl Cab Icon 2.4 D-4D (150) Dbl Cab Invincible 2.4 D-4D (150) auto D Cab In’cible 2.4 D-4D (150) at DC In’cible AT35 Invincible X: add £3865 to Invincible

£23340 £24850 £21965 £24980 £26490 £240 orts

Insignia Grand Sport - 4897x1863m mm, EURO-N NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A

Mirai - 4890x1815mm EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 113kW (152) auto Hydrogen

0-60mph

List price

CO2 Insurance group

MPG

0-60mph

1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Active 68.4 10.6 75 1.8 VVT-i Hyb (122) at Business Ed 68.4 10.6 75 1.8 VVT-i Hy (122) at Bus Ed+ AWD 59.6 10.6 85 1.8 VVT-i Hybrid (122) auto Excel 59.6 10.6 84 1.8 VVT-i Plugin (179) B’ness Ed+ 235.011.1 29 1.8 VVT-i Plugin (179) Excel 235.011.1 29 Business Edition Plus: add £1800 to Bu usiness Edition

1.5 Turbo D (122) SRi 64.2 9.7 92 18 1.5 Turbo D (122) Elite Nav 64.2 9.7 92 18 1.5 Turbo D (122) auto SE 50.4 10.2 109 22 1.5 Turbo D (122) auto SRi 50.4 10.2 109 22 1.5 Turbo D (122) auto Elite Nav 50.4 10.2 109 22 Business Edition Nav: add £700 to SE, SRi VX Line Nav: ad to Elite Nav, Ultimate Nav: add £2800 0 to Elite Navv, Asttra S Tourer: add £1470 (selected models)

NEW CAR PRICES

Prius - 4540x1760mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: 4th

£25010 £25750 £30150 £35055 £36860 £28305 £32985 £30225 £31825 £36065 £39745 ch: add

1.5 T2 (129) Momentum Core 41.5 10.9 144 28 1.5 T3 (163) Momentum 41.5 9.3 142 28 1.5 T3 (163) auto Momentum 39.2 9.6 147 28 2.0 T4 (190) auto Momentum 36.7 8.4 154 28 2.0 T4 (190) at Momentum AWD 35.3 8.5 161 28 2.0 T5 (247) auto R-Design AWD 34.0 6.5 164 29 2.0 T5 Twin Eng (262) at R-Design 141.1 7.3 38 32 2.0 D3 (150) Momentum 51.4 9.9 127 29 2.0 D3 (150) auto Momentum 47.1 10.2 131 29 2.0 D3 (150) at Momentum AWD 44.8 10.4 141 29 2.0 D4 (190) auto R-Design AWD 44.1 7.9 131 29 R-Design: add £1850 to Momentum, Inscription: add £25 Momentum, add £650 to R-Design

£24985 £28965 £30515 £31835 £33235 £36585 £40905 £30765 £32635 £34035 £36735 0 to

XC60 - 4688x1999mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 B5 (P) (250) auto Momentum 38.6 6.8 149 34 2.0 B5 (P) (250) at M’tum AWD 36.2 6.8 160 34 2.0 T8 (390) auto R-Design AWD 122.8 5.5 47 41 2.0 D4 (190) at Momentum FWD 47.9 8.8 129 31 2.0 B4 (D) (190) at M’tum AWD 46.3 8.4 142 31 2.0 B5 (D) (235) at R-Design AWD 46.3 7.2 142 35 R-Design: add £2715 to B5 (P), add £2 2400 to D4/B B4 (D), Inscription: add £4715 to B5 (P), add £2000 to T8//B5 (D), a £4400 to D4/B4 (D)

£38915 £40935 £55005 £38915 £40935 £46185 d

XC90 - 4950x2008mm, EURO-NCAP ★★★★★ DRIVER POWER POS: N/A 2.0 B5 (P) (250) at M’tum AWD 33.6 7.9 165 38 £52760 2.0 T6 (310) auto R-Design AWD 28.8 6.5 187 40 £59385 2.0 T8 (390) auto R-Design AWD 113.0 5.8 50 44 £66645 2.0 B5 (D) (235) at M’tum AWD 44.1 7.8 154 37 £53635 R-Design: add £3300 to Momentum, Inscription: add £40 to R-Design, Pro: add £2800 to Momentum, add £42 250 to R-Design, add £4900 to Inscription

Special Issue 111

SPORT

All the action from the world of motorsport rsport

F1 gears up to launch 2020 cars ● Ferrari will be first to unveil ● Six days of pre-season tests

WRAPS OFF

Mercedes will debut its new car at Silverstone in a repeat of last year’s launch (pictured above)

Stephen Errity

Stephen_Errity@dennis.co.uk

FORMULA 1 teams are preparing to launch their 2020 contenders, with the majority of squads having confirmed event dates for the second week of February, and others choosing to roll their new cars out in the pitlane ahead of testing the week after. Ferrari’s new challenger will be the first to appear, with a launch event in a theatre in Reggio Emilia, Italy, on 11 February. Renault is up next, revealing its car in its home city of Paris on 12 February. On 13 February, McLaren will hold a launch event for its MCL35 at its Woking HQ in Surrey. The former Toro Rosso team, now known as AlphaTauri, will take the wraps off both its new car and new team identity at Red Bull’s Hangar-7 facility in Salzburg, Austria,

on 14 February. On the same day, Mercedes will have a private shakedown run at Silverstone for Lewis Hamilton and Valterri Bottas’s new car, while Racing Point’s 2020 car will break cover at an event in sponsor BWT’s home of Austria on 17 February. Both Alfa Romeo and Haas will wait until the first morning of testing to show off their new cars, which will appear in the pitlane at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona

on 19 February. Finally, the Williams and Red Bull teams, which had not yet announced plans at the time of writing, may well follow suit with that approach. Following the launches, there will be two three-day pre-season tests held at Barcelona, the first running from 19-21 February and the second in the following week from 26-28 February. It marks a reduction of two days on the

testing time allocated in 2019, which saw two four-day test sessions take place. Elsewhere, Renault has confirmed Pat Fry as its chassis technical director, replacing Nick Chester, who left the Enstone-based squad at the end of 2019. Fry has worked for Benetton, Ferrari, Manor and McLaren in the past, most recently in a temporary spell for the latter while it awaited the arrival of ex-Toro Rosso man James Key as technical director.

New top class agreed for sportscars

Aston Martin out of DTM for 2020

THE FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the American IMSA organisation have agreed on a new common top class for their championships, called LMDh. For a number of years now, while LMP1 cars have battled for overall victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours and other WEC races, IMSA’s top class has been the simpler and cheaper DPi (Daytona Prototype). The agreement means that, for the first time in many years, the same cars will be able to fight for the overall win at the classic Le Mans, Sebring and Daytona endurance races, as well as over the full schedule of WEC and IMSA WeatherTech championship events. In addition, the new LMDh category will be performancebalanced with the previously announced WEC ‘Hypercar’ class, allowing entries from both categories to race together.

THE R-Motorsport-run Aston Martin squad is pulling out of Germany’s DTM touring-car championship after racing for just one year. The private team, which also runs Aston Martins in GT3 racing, split with its engine supplier HWA late in 2019 after a tough debut season, and has now elected not to return to the DTM at all for 2020. The move leaves the series facing a record low grid total of just 14 cars from Audi and BMW.

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WEC and IMSA deal means that both series’ top classes can race together at Sebring

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I’M more convinced than ever that the shift from 100 per cent petrol or diesel (ICE) cars to their pure-electric counterparts (EVs) ain’t going to happen in one short, sharp, revolutionary burst. The transition will be more drip, drip than tidal wave – not least because of major problems within the UK’s entrepreneurial, sometimes iffy, EVcharging industry. Then there’s the separate disaster of inadequate Government investment; if the state is willing to seriously consider blowing £100billion-plus on the HS2 rail project, how about a tenth of that on EV infrastructure? On top of all this sits another tricky issue: the understandable and justifiable caution on the part of consumers expected to spend their hard-earned cash on EVs that remain considerably more expensive to Motoring’s most outspoken buy than their petrol or diesel equivalents. and opinionated columnist sounds off Sadly, the AA in Britain lately seems to offer far fewer instantly recognisable and readable tables spelling out the typical annual all-in costs of buying, insuring, The affordability gap running, refuelling/charging, servicing, then reselling has to be smaller – cars with entirely different modes of power. But the equivalent organisation in the US – AAA – has in recent or non-existent – if days been getting stuck in, declaring that “owning EV purchases are to an electric vehicle is the cure for most consumer catch up with and concerns” – whatever that’s supposed to mean. More helpfully, AAA states its new research finds overtake ICE sales that, after five years/75,000 miles, “the annual cost of owning a small to medium-sized electric vehicle bought new is, on average, only about $600 (£460) a year more expensive than its petrol-powered alternative”. Call it a difference of a quid a day, eh? Put another way – and still solely with money in mind – AAA concludes the “overall” annual cost of small-to-midsize EV ownership is just eight per cent higher than ICE car ownership. It’s no surprise that in the EV vs ICE financial stakes, EV owners save hundreds a year on fuel, servicing, maintenance, tyres, road user taxes, etc. Conversely, ICE buyers spend hundreds less in finance charges, and are thousands better off when it comes to the big one – vehicle depreciation. This is THE most expensive thing owners of new cars (eventually) have to pay at the stage when they trade in their vehicles, be they ICE or EV. I’m delighted to see what seems like clear evidence from a respected and unbiased source, albeit one from overseas, saying small-to-medium pure-electric cars are, all things considered, becoming more affordable in terms of all-in standing and running costs. But that affordability gap remains too large. It has to become even smaller – or in some cases, non-existent – if EV purchases are to catch up with and overtake ICE sales. Manufacturers and dealers have more than enough on their plates already. But they need to somehow ensure (via more attractive buy-back schemes, for example) that their pure-electric cars will only lose as much in depreciation as their internal-combustion counterparts. At that point the EV will equal or beat the ICE in overall cost of ownership terms. And that may mark the beginning of the end for 100 per cent petrol and diesel cars.

Mike

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Revised F-Type hits the road We get behind the wheel of Jaguar’s facelifted sports car

TESTED

City car clash

All-new Hyundai i10 takes on Kia Picanto and Toyota Aygo rivals

FEATURE

University’s EV challenge Meet the UK students competing in a global engineering contest

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