CAPTAIN OBVIOUS
RELAX INTO A WARM BATH OF SAFE BETS: THE CARS YOU CAN’T LOSE ON, THE HEARTLAND CHOICES THAT REQUIRE NO IMAGINATION WHATSOEVER...
WORDS OLLIE KEW
£15K AND UNDER
Ford Fiesta ST
PRICE THEN/NOW: FROM £22,930/FROM £14K...
PROS A TopGear Car of the Year, a benchmark hot hatch, lots of standard kit, no known gremlins
CONS Current shape STs are only just starting to trickle below £15k, so you might be tempted by a tidy previous-gen car. It’s also fab
Put your money where our mouth is, with a car so well-rounded and fundamentally brilliant we named it the single best new car to arrive in the whole of 2018. And yes, the very Fiesta ST that was the TG Car of the Year only four short years ago is now – just – dropping into the sub-£15k price bracket.