OUR PICKS BUDGET: £25,000
It seems hard to believe that the Volkswagen Golf has an entry price of almost £24,000 these days. And that could easily be pushed north of £25,000 with just one or two choice options – metallic paint, say, or a nice radio. The old adage of motoring writing, that you can buy a Bentley for Mondeo money hasn’t just been disproven, it’s been turned on its head – you could get two Turbo Rs for the price of a sensible hatchback in 2021.
But ownership of two cheap Bentleys is a route map to the bankruptcy court. The four cars we’ve chosen as indicative of this sort of
