Reviews

Manages to serve up a zingy new style that hardly compromises its space or usefulness

Seat’s most complete car. It has no real weaknesses – but we just know you’d rather have the VW…

More useful than the biggest estates, and good to drive. Avoid the SUV rat-race.

If the Passat is too dull but you still have a sensible side, the CC could be just the car for you

It’s big, expensive and not especially clever, but it is really, really good at ferrying lots of people about. Really, really quietly.

Peugeot ditches MPVs, does crossovers instead. Seven-seat 5008 is the biggest yet

Cosier and more expensive than rivals, but appealing badge and quality

The simplest and most exciting Toyota in years is also a real pleasure to drive

More grown up and all the better for it. Priced very keenly too - it's a smart shout.

We've had to wait for it, but the new Mondeo has been well worth it.

Been around for a few years. Still among the best of its ilk, but look at the new Leon Estate before you buy

The Karoq might have lost its predecessor’s personality, but on every other front it’s a better car than the one it replaces

This is among the best compact estates on sale (partly because it isn’t really compact at all).

Great-looking, great to drive new Volvo should be a fine car to own.

Renault’s Qashqai rival is conveniently a rebodied… Qashqai. A fine appliance for family transport

A beautiful, entertaining and fundamentally different hatch.

A capable machine, but more GT than hot hatch. Think mature rather than arm-wangly Italian

A great examplar for keeping a car's mechanicals simple. The MX-5 provides fun at entirely legal speeds

One of the best all-round performance cars ever made. Fast, forgiving, and everyday-friendly

New eighth-gen Golf remains the lingua-franca of the hatch world. A finely polished machine

It defines this sector and should be its default buy. You simply can’t go wrong.

Overlook the fact it’s so good that it’s almost joyless: the latest Golf GTI is very desirable indeed