CUT-PRICE CITY SLICKERS: In search of reliable runabouts for cheap urban motoring

摘要

I write this just a couple of days before World Car-Free Day. I'll give it a miss again. Not living in a city means many of us miss all the celebrations and can avoid the increasingly absurd restrictions, road closures and cycle lanes that are springing up all over the place. With that in mind, what's the ideal affordable city car these days? It needs to be cheap to buy and run, small and able to take a dent. So before they all get banned, let's bag a petrol-powered shopper.