Matt Prior
TESTER’S NOTES
Do small cars driving slowly bring out the worst in you?
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hat do you think when you come across or drive up behind a newish
small car? Something like a Kia Picanto, MG 3 or Suzuki Swift.
Do you think that there must go a smart person, because compact cars are light and uncomplicated and easy on consumables? That this driver has to be pretty enlightened, confident within themselves, to choose something as practical and usually very competent and refined yet seriously unassuming?
Do you credit them for resisting the expensive drip payments that could have led them to a more glamorous yet no better badge on their driveway? Do you look and think that there’s a reason why those consumer motoring experts at the world’s longest-established car magazine, Autocar, are so taken with cars like this?