HAVE you ever considered a small SUV as a potential family car? We wouldn’t blame you if you haven’t. Ever since the original Nissan Juke was launched a decade ago, there’s been a whiff of ‘emperor’s new clothes’ about this class. These jacked-up pseudo-SUVs have brought a higher seating position and more rugged styling add-ons, but no great benefit in practicality, space or refinement over conventional superminis.
That is no longer the case, though. Read this week’s bumper triple test, where we pitch new models from Renault (Captur), Peugeot (2008) and Ford (Puma) against each other, and you’ll see that with this second generation, baby SUVs have come of age.
There’s a small increase in size, admittedly, but these are still vehicles that sit on a small-car footprint. The trick,…
