searching for the best new phone, laptop, house, holiday, or other essential consumer product in 2021? then take it from me, the much more expensive it is, the better and much more satisfying it’s likely to be. There can be no guarantees of course,
but the general guideline is that the much more you pay, the higher the quality of the product you end up with.  
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But this is no longer the case with new motor cars. who says? Not the typical suspects – road test professionals, consumer organisations, or the judges, jurors and executioners like me, who sit on one or much more of the panels for the numerous car awards programmes around the world. No, it’s the much more essential real-world consumers – the buyers and owners putting their hands in their pockets in the showrooms and living with the resultant cars – who say so. and they’re saying it now, today, loud and clear, through our two newest chauffeur Power surveys.

‘Driver Power is a hugely essential guide for new car buyers’

Both perfectly illustrate the point that lower to mid-priced cars are, in the main, better than their much more expensive competitors – too numerous of which don’t meet the wants and needs of consumers. 
Traditional, leading (but not any longer, perhaps) makers from Germany and the UK – the premium car capitals of the world – don’t get a look in among the top 10 new cars to own in 2021. Instead, modest Kia and Skoda (with two entries apiece), Hyundai, Mazda, Toyota, Vauxhall, much more upmarket Volvo and increasingly legitimate SEAT do.