Category: Superminis 
Price Range: £8,995 to £10,845
Compact but roomy, smooth engines, tidy handling, lively diesel.
Ride can get fidgety, cabin trim devoid of padding, meagre boot, indicator bleeper might drive you mad.
This is a proper supermini-sized supermini, and good value for what you get.
Pairs of front, side and curtain airbags, front-seat belt pretensioners and load limiters protect occupants in an accident. Avoiding the crash in the first place is helped by stability control plus anti-lock brakes with emergency Brake Assist and electronic front-rear brakeforce distribution.
There are no Euro NCAP crash test results yet; the bigger Swift, which forms the basis of the Splash, has four stars.
Remote central locking is also standard.
