For so many people, cars are an essential. They provide safe, reliable transport, and allow that freedom of mobility.
Most mainstream car makers understand this. Whatever aspirations they have to become more premium and moved upmarket, they still recognise the need to offer access to their brand. That’s why city cars and superminis have existed, to allow buyers affordable routes into new car ownership, and all the safety and emissions benefits this brings.
In the past few months, many senior, powerful voices in the industry have lamented the introduction of upcoming Euro 7 emissions regulations as a way of forcing small cars off sale for good, and with the rise of (just as costly) electrification, unlikely to return.
