7/10Hyundaii30£17,130 – £25,290A very rational car in standard form, which will make your life easy, but not exciting. The i30 N hot hatch manages to make it easy AND exciting. It's ace
3/10NissanPulsar£16,340 – £18,110A perfectly able family hatchback that brings absolutely nothing new to the sector. Why, Nissan?
8/10SeatAteca£22,410 – £35,205A first-time entrant from Seat that feels like they’ve been practicing for years.
8/10SkodaKaroq£22,015 – £34,590The Karoq might have lost its predecessor’s personality, but on every other front it’s a better car than the one it replaces
8/10SkodaKodiaq£25,875 – £43,155A Top Gear award winner in 2016, and rightly so – Skoda’s big crossover is all things to all families.
7/10SeatAlhambra£30,415 – £38,270Seat’s most complete car. It has no real weaknesses – but we just know you’d rather have the VW…
8/10Land RoverDiscovery£46,110 – £68,890The consummate big family SUV. Spectacular off-road, now better on it, but is it just too Range Rover for its own good?
7/10VolkswagenSharan£29,910 – £40,290It’s big, expensive and not especially clever, but it is really, really good at ferrying lots of people about. Really, really quietly.
8/10VolvoXC40£24,700 – £42,250Volvo has made something nicely distinctive here. It'd be impressive even if they'd been practicing for years
