This little car has a bold, if not especially exciting, appearance and offers a surprisingly soft ride for a vehicle with such a short wheelbase. Whilst it handles reasonable well, its height can on occasions make turning feel a little precarious above modest speeds and one becomes intrusively conscious of the grip, although if this discourages your inner Jason Bourne from risking any daring manoeuvres this may be a good thing.
For a small, five-door car it is cunningly spacious inside, with more than adequate leg room for rear-seat passengers; however, whatever has been gained in leg room has been lost in boot space, which is very, very limited. The rears seats do fold to ease this problem, but you probably would be ill-advised to take the kids with you to the shopping mall unless they don’t mind being up to their ears in groceries.
Performance, it has to be admitted, isn’t especially dazzling: the 1.0 litre petrol takes an age to get to 60mph, and the 1.5 litre a not markedly better 10 seconds, so plan your motorway overtaking well in advance and take no risks on ordinary roads. But on fuel efficiency, this little car is a winner, yielding up to 54.3 mpg (and insurance is low for both engines sizes, too).
