HJ’s Top 10 new cars of 2016
It’s been quite a good year both for new cars and for significant improvements to existing cars that were previously not quite as good as they could have been.
Most notably, Peugeot/Citroen has been putting its excellent 1.2 litre three-cylinder PureTech 130 engine into more models and has livened them up considerably.
Asked to pick a Top 10 I did it top of head rather than by re-reading my notes on everything. So these are the cars I most readily remembered as doing the job they were designed to do better than any others.
FIAT Tipo 1.4T
The new Tipo has been widely derided as “not up to the mark” compared to the likes of the Ford Focus or VW Golf. Excuse me. Car for car, the Tipo is at least £6000 cheaper than the Focus or Golf, and that’s before any discounting.
Though the Tipo starts at £12,995, pick of the range for me is the 1.4T that for £14,995 offers a very acceptable alternative with reasonable, if not best in class, steering, ride, handling and performance. And it’s not bad looking either.
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