It's a fine line between enough and too much.

Data from car-buying champions What Car? revealed earlier this year that the average UK new car cost a staggering £42,054, driven up by around 7% in just 18 months by a combination of rising prices and dwindling discounting.

We shouldn’t be entirely surprised, of course; the cost of living crisis is as real for those running vast factories as it is our homes; soaring energy prices, rising raw material costs and more were always going to lead to pressure.