What car is best for your business motoring? Here are our latest car reviews with a special emphasis on company car or business motoring suitability for SMEs
A small car that feels big inside. A good cabin layout shows Suzuki is moving into mini luxury land. Plenty of leg room in the front and rear make for a happy family - and no teenagers have complained about the rear seats.
Business car leasing removes the need to find the initial capital to fund company cars, as you only pay the fixed monthly figure – so that cost is expected and can be budgeted for.
It’s Peugeot’s big 7-seater SUV and the first ride we have had in one for a couple of years. The 5008 has proved to be well-balanced, favourably mixing style, respectable performance and high safety standards.
HMRC calculates AFRs by using a combination of average fuel prices, a calculation of real-world mpgs achieved by engine size and fuel type to arrive at a pence per mile figure.
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Probably one of the finest large SUVs on the road packed with some very cool safety and driver assist systems.
It’s the petrol-electric version of Ford’s big-selling Mondeo and the brand’s answer to the likes of the Volkswagen Passat GTE, Lexus IS 300h and Toyota Prius.
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P11D Value, £26,505 5-door, 5-seat hatchback Engine: 1.5-litre four-cylinder diesel Power/torque: 120ps/270Nm Economy/CO2: 48.2mpg/110g/km Performance: 0-62/mph, 10.7 secs/117mph What is it? The Ford Focus has been in the top-two UK best-sellers pretty will since launch, vying for the number one spot with smaller stablemate, the Fiesta. Ford has sold 2 million Focus cars in the UK, 7 million in [...]
SEAT Tarraco XCELLENCE LUX 2.0 TSI DSG 4Drive P11D Value (as tested): £36,235 BIK band 2018/19: 37% Large 7-seat SUV 0-litre 4-cylinder petrol 190hp/320Nm Performance: 8.0secs/131mph Economy (On test) 28.2mpg CO2: 166g/km What is it? It’s a full seven seater and while SEAT has occupied this space in the past, it’s been with the Alhambra in [...]
For such a big beast, pretty smooth and mounted on 20-inch wheels it copes very well with the pot-hole ridden roads of the UK.
The Polo Beats version is a trendy special edition which has been available from launch charged with bringing down the average age of the average Polo buyer who are otherwise being attracted by other small car brands.
Outlander PHEV is a BIK bargain before it’s even turned a wheel and and when it does turn a wheel, you end up driving a highly refined executive SUV.
The 10th-generation Civic represents a significant step forward for Honda in the C-segment, benefiting from the largest single model global development programme in the company’s history.
For the SME, the Kadjar offers a really good amount of space and practicality in terms of carrying people and cargo. Better for the long haul rather than tootling around town and that fuel economy is particularly pleasing.
Residual values are good which is great news three years down the line if you are selling on or coming to the end of the lease. For SMEs the car stacks up well against rival Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz models, certainly keeping its resale value as well as them.
Grown up/blown up version of Fiat’s funky 500 city car and designed to take advantage of the current trend and demand for small SUVs.
P11D Value: £25,00 BIK band 2018/19: 28% SUV 1.5-litre diesel 115hp/260Nm Performance: 11.2 secs/117mph Economy (On test) 54.7mpg CO2: 117g/km What is it? It’s our latest long termer. Business Motoring spent a short amount of time with the Renault SUV a few weeks ago, now we have the opportunity to see how the Kadjar stacks up for a business user [...]
Starting price on the road is £41,520 and our came with £4,470 worth of additional goodies including Grey paintwork (£770), a cold weather pack (£550) and Electrically adjustable front seats (£750).
The Italian marque’s first SUV was launched in 2016 and there have been a few changes for the 2019 model, notably a new, Ferrari-developed, 3.0-litre, twin turbo, V6 engine.
