Ford

C-MAX

£13,325 - £20,575

Strangely attractive Focus-based MPV. Does family stuff AND looks good AND is fun to drive? Cancel the vasectomy - it turns out dads can have fun too.

Fiesta

£8,495 - £14,750

Ridiculously good supermini still kicking the arse of rivals that were just a glint in a product planner's eye when it first rocked up 30 years ago (oh yes).

Focus

£11,975 - £20,675

If you hate Ford, here's the real reason. Britain's best-seller is a hatch that can do no wrong. Its only drawback is that it's more common than Wayne Rooney's sister.

Focus CC

£16,800 - £20,825

Focus wig no longer on its chest, but perched precariously on its head, making it look a bit girly. That said, surprisingly un-crap for a tin-top cabrio.

Focus Estate

Slightly less common than the Focus hatch. Which is like being slightly less common than Kerry Katona. Handles considerably better than her, though. 

Focus ST

Chest-wigged version of the above. Exists entirely to reconnect modern-day bland-box to the spirit of Cosworths past, and it works. Focus is officially hard.

Fusion

£10,807 - £14,450

At last, Ford Screws Up! Pointlessly jacked-up Fiesta with not a scrap of street cred or usefulness. Equally unsuitable for folk of all ages. A dud.

Galaxy

£19,510 - £25,960

Vast seven-seat MPV bestowed with alluring good looks. Packs the sort of room-stopping impact you expect when Angelina Jolie shows up to collect her many kids.

Ka

£7,150 - £10,000

Time has caught up with the ahead-of-its-time city car. It still has charm, though not enough to take your eyes off the sleek new model coming soon. Fickle world, eh?

Kuga

£20,255 - £22,255

In the great spectrum of 'SUVs named after weirdly misspelt North American wild cats', the Kuga is one of the very best. One of the better soft SUVs all-round, in fact.

Mondeo

£15,155 - £26,380

Wears its name like a big, fat millstone on a Marley's ghost-spec chain. List of qualities as long as your arm, but sounds dull. Not fair. Today's reps all drive BMWs.

Mondeo Estate

Epically useful and not quite as uninteresting as its donor car, on the basis that it has a specific use so obvious even Jade Goody can understand it.

S-MAX

£17,510 - £23,460

Likeable attempt to inject a seven-seater with the sexy gene. Almost works too, although ends up demonstrating that usefulness is inversely proportional to looks.