LOOKING for the best new phone, laptop, house, holiday, or other essential consumer product in 2021? Then take it from me, the more expensive it is, the better and more satisfying it’s likely to be. There can be no guarantees of course, but the general rule is that the more you pay, the higher the quality of the product you end up with.
But this is no longer the case with new motor cars. Who says? Not the usual suspects – road test professionals, consumer organisations, or the judges, jurors and executioners like me, who sit on one or more of the panels for the countless car awards programmes around the world. No, it’s the more important real-world consumers – the buyers and owners putting their hands in their pockets…
