Best Value Cars
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Peugeot’s hot hatch turns the tables on Ford
1. Peugeot 208 GTi PUG’S return-to-form GTi may have bowed to Ford’s Fiesta ST at comparo time, but when it comes to number-crunching, the feisty French hot hatch turns the tables on its rival.
Despite costing $4000 more to buy, the 208 fights back with stronger resale, for starters, though whether this will be reflected in real-world used prices remains to be seen. Then there are the Pug’s 5.9L/100km official fuel use and $978 insurance premium, the best of any of the 25 performance cars considered. Only a good (but not great) three-year warranty stood between the reborn GTi and a Gold Star Awards clean-sweep.
2. Hyundai Veloster SR Turbo ONLY 0.7 percentage points separated the 208 GTi and Hyundai’s quirky four-door coupe. The boosted Veloster boasts fine efficiency, superb resale, inexpensive insurance, a 12-month service interval and a five-year warranty.
3. Renault Clio RS200 EDC RENAULT’S re-priced, fourth-gen hot Clio, now with turbo-assisted shove, moves firmly into the crosshairs for value-conscious buyers, narrowly ahead of another hi-po Korean coupe, the Kia Koup Turbo.
| Perform. <$75k | Purchase Price | Comb. Fuel (L/100km) | Fuel RON (min. rec.) | 3-year fuel cost | Redbook resale (%) | 3-year deprec. | AAMI insurance prem. | Service interval (months) | Warranty (years) |
| Peugeot 208 GTi | $29,990 | 5.9 | 95 | $3586 | 68 | $9597 | $978.87 | 12 | 3 |
| Hyundai Veloster SR Turbo | $31,990 | 6.8 | 91 | $3881 | 65 | $11,197 | $992.02 | 12 | 5 |
| Renault Clio RS200 EDC | $29,290 | 6.3 | 95 | $3829 | 60 | $11,716 | $1124.80 | 12 | 5 |
Notable classmates: Kia Cerato Koup Turbo, Ford Fiesta ST / Number of cars crunched: 25
