Vauxhall Vectra
Price: £15,100
For: Comfortable; well-equipped; thousands of fleet buyers can’t be wrong
Against: Image
The much-maligned Vauxhall Vectra has been frequently sneered at by the motoring press, but it’s really not a bad car at all. Tarted up in 2005, it’s even quite smart-looking, though we’d avoid black or white paint jobs, which shout ‘hire car’ or ‘taxi’. There are hatchback, saloon and load-lugging estate models to pick from: all smooth-riding, well-equipped and nicely-upholstered. There’s also a vast range of engines from a 120bhp diesel to the VXR Turbo’s 280bhp 2.8 V6.
Best of all, however, this thing comes cheap, and not just with a bulk discount for fleet buyers. 
Vauxhall dealers will be up for a haggle, there are plenty of pre-registered and ex-demo examples on independent forecourts, and the Vectra will get cheaper yet in the run-up to the launch of the all-new Insignia later this summer.
