Five of the best: Brilliant small cars for £5,000 | Yahoo! Cars UK

By Mark Nichol

Downsizing. Everybody's doing it. For some, bigger will always mean better, but those people are missing out on some of the best, most fun cars on the market. Don't get us wrong, we love big, powerful machines here at Yahoo! Cars, but we also love a well sorted, low-powered supermini. The following cars are perfect for this, because they're all great to drive.

Equally importantly, they're all good at the mundane stuff we need our cars for - like being practical, cheap to run and reasonable to insure. Here's what we would spend £5,000 on, if we had it.

Ford Fiesta

Renault Clio

Skoda Fabia

Fiat Panda

MINI

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Fiat Punto Evo gets re-hatch

Ah, the Fiat Punto: never quite what it pretends to be. Supposedly designed to look like a Maserati in hatchback form, the existing model was called the Grande Punto when it was anything but. And now the Italian automaker has launched an updated version and dropped the Grande tag for the vaunted name Evo... for a budget hatchback. Set aside the aspirational naming scheme, though, and what you have is a strong-selling vehicle that's put Fiat back on the map.

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