SMALL BUT MIGHTY:  Hyundai's Budget i10

Well, it's small all right. The advantage is you can park it anywhere, even the tiniest, most stingy, parking bay, and it's obviously fuel-frugal.
Also, cost-wise, buying the Hyundai i10 won't break the bank or stretch your finances too much. It is  affordable for many entry-level buyers  but then so are a couple of the newer Chinese entries that have features absent in the i10.
What you will get, though, are power-assisted and height-adjustable steering, power front windows and aircon as well as a neatly tucked away, full-sized spare wheel. No radio/CD player though - that's an optional extra.
Also on the plus side is the very generous five-year/150 000km warranty and the fuel consumption is a frugal six litres/100km. Not to be sneezed at.
Scurrying around town in the car was fun because of its size and its novel appearance  it's cute, girls.
It's not the fastest car off the starting blocks but nevertheless was pretty spirited up Field's Hill near Pietermaritzburg and the always-testing Sydenham Road here in Durban and I had fun with it on a dirt route visiting a farm in the Midlands.
The 1100cc engine develops 49kW at 5500rpm and 99Nm at 2800rpm. Pretty impressive in its classI had fun with it on a dirt route in the Midlands.
The cabin is as well-finished as anything you'd expect from the Korean stable, with everything very close to hand. However, to be accurate, the i10 is actually imported from the Chennai plant of Hyundai Motor India.
The tight squeeze I'd anticipated with the school lift club didn't materialise, really, because it's far more spacious than you'd expect when looking at it.
The kids loved it, I loved the fact we could open all of the doors when it was parked in my driveway because it took up so little room (usually the kids have to wait on the verge until I've backed out) and generally I enjoyed driving the i10.