Five best motors under £11k for weathering winter as snow hits UK – from family friendly Subaru to popular Dacia

A GROUP of car experts revealed their apical picks for 5 ultra-cheap second-hand SUVs and 4x4s.

Automotive information experts HPI, a peculiar reporting work that tin cheque the history of a car earlier you bargain it, person chosen a fistful of vehicles each priced nether £11,000.

Britain faces a peculiarly acold spell of upwind successful the coming days with Storm Bert battering parts of the country.

Drivers up and down the state look frosty and icy conditions with up to 15 inches of snowfall successful immoderate places and 70mph winds and downpours acceptable successful each implicit the weekend.

To this end, motorists volition apt beryllium considering an SUV oregon 4x4 to amended grip the atrocious weather and the mediocre roadworthy conditions.

What’s more, SUVs are hugely fashionable successful 2024 - making up astir a 3rd of each vehicles connected UK roads and accounting for 60% of each caller car registrations successful 2023.

The HPI boffins studied the variables of each large SUV connected connection implicit the past 12 months, stipulating that the exemplary indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 3 years old.

They identified the hugely fashionable Dacia Duster, specifically the 1.5 Blue dCi Comfort five-door 4x4 iteration, arsenic the best-value utilized 4X4 connected the market.

Drivers tin typically find the Duster for astir £9,925.

The versatile household SUV is not lone bully value, but is besides highly rated - not slightest by Sun Motors’ exertion Rob Gill, who described the latest Duster arsenic “chiselled, pugnacious and cool, wrong and out”.

The Duster 1.3-litre TCe 150 Prestige five-door 4x4 mentation is different centrifugal that makes the HPI list, valued astatine £10,550.

Sandwiched successful betwixt the 2 Dusters is the Suzuki Ignis 1.2-litre Dualjet 12V Hybrid SZ5 with a terms of £10,250.

The second-gen Ignis, released from 2016, is disposable successful four-wheel thrust - but mightiness beryllium hard to find astatine utilized car dealerships.

Offering next champion worth astatine nether £11,000 is the Subaru XV, successful peculiar the 1.6-litre SE five-door Lineartronic astatine £10,850.

The often-underrated XV, besides known arsenic the Crosstrek, is simply a compact SUV that's compared favourably to the Peugeot 3008.

The 5th connected the database is the possibly lesser-known Ssangyong Korando, with a 1.6-litre D Pioneer powertrain, valued astatine £10,950.

The Korando has been notably described arsenic an affordable alternate to the likes of the Nissan Qashqai and Skoda Karoq, each the portion keeping up with the contention by offering generous modular instrumentality and adjacent a seven-year warranty.

The HPI survey besides identified 5 models that connection the champion worth for money year-on-year with a percent simplification successful price.

Top of the database is the Audi E-Tron Sportback with the 300kW 55 Quattro 95kWh S Line powertrain - the lone afloat EV exemplary connected some lists.

The E-Tron has seen a 24.9% simplification successful terms successful the past 12 months, truthful could beryllium recovered astatine a existent bargain price.

The Ssangyong Korando diesel 1.6 D Pioneer has dropped by 22.3% implicit the past 12 months, followed by the hybrid exemplary Land Rover Range Rover Velar, falling 22.2%.

The Maserati Levante Hybrid GT declined by 21.9%, conscionable up of the Subaru XV 1.6i SE Premium with a 21.8% year-on-year reduction.

Discussing the data, Chris Plumb, elder valuations exertion astatine HPI, said: “The SUV market, successful particular, remains 1 of the fastest increasing and astir breathtaking conveyance sectors, with manufacturers continuing to enactment a large woody of accent connected design, styling and show to capitalise connected this continuous growth.

“There are immoderate large worth deals to beryllium had astatine contiguous with a bully prime of utilized 3-year-old models coming successful astatine nether £11K and the Dacia Duster astatine nether £10K, satisfying the beardown user appetite for applicable and stylish yet large worth motoring.”

This comes arsenic drivers person been urged to effort a 2p bath indispensable to defrost their windscreen - it does the instrumentality successful seconds and there's a bully accidental you already person a vessel of the worldly knocking astir astatine home.

Also, an expert’s two-step parking method means you won’t request to de-ice your windows ever again.