Hyundai Santa Fe

The new Santa Fe is undoubtedly the best car Hyundai has produced to date. It has a versatile seven-seat option, good quality interior, comfortable ride and a great new diesel engine. It would stack up well alongside mainstream competition - if there was any. It is in a different class to the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V and Nissan X-trail, being larger and offering seven seats, but isn't aspirational enough to be measured against more expensive rivals like the Volkswagen Touareg and Volvo XC90. However, the Santa Fe is a good effort whichever way you look at it, and anyone deciding to take one for a test drive is guaranteed to be pleasantly surprised.

CRTD, GSI, V6, CDX

GSi models come with six airbags, 17-inch alloys, front foglights, roof rails, electric windows and mirrors, remote central locking with alarm and immobiliser, full-size spare wheel, factory-fitted CD/radio and air conditioning. The CDX adds leather seat facings, electrically adjustable driver's seat, six-disc CD autochanger, cruise control, auto-dimming rear-view mirror, 18-inch alloys, windscreen wiper de-icer, dual-zone climate control, electronic stability programme and heated front seats. For £800 more than a CDX, CDX+ models come with a 10-speaker Infinity audio system with Logic 7 surround sound and an in-dash CD autochanger, Smartnav satellite navigation, electrically adjustable passenger seat, rain-sensing windscreen wipers, a coolbox in the centre console and a roof-mounted DVD player.

2.2 CRTD CDX