Citroen C3 Aircross

While you can get a pretty cheap Citroen C3 Aircross with its entry-level engine, we’d recommend you go for a more powerful and more efficient turbocharged offering, which sits very competitively against rivals when it comes to purchase price. The competition is many and varied, but a crunch of the main running costs against Nissan’s Juke, Seat’s Arona and Hyundai’s Kona suggests little overall difference between them. The Citroen has impressive fuel economy, which will keep the costs down if you do higher mileage, but it does sit in a higher insurance group than the others. It doesn’t hold onto its value as well as the Hyundai or the Seat, either. That said, it should be pretty cheap to service, maintain and repair. Overall, its costs will likely be broadly in line with the competition.

Like almost every other manufacturer these days, Citroen offers servicing plans that allow you to budget for maintenance costs by paying in monthly installments rather than get hit with one big bill when you take your Aircross into your dealer for a spruce up.