The Dacia Sandero is still the cheapest car in the UK!

The night is darkest before the dawn, The Dark Knight sagely informed us many moons ago. The ‘Night’? The humble Dacia Sandero is now more expensive than ever. Clearly, we are living in dark times.

But the ‘Dawn’ bit? It remains the cheapest new car on sale in the United Kingdom today. Hurrah! Where previously it was a literal handful of peanuts at £5,995, now it's more like a bowl of gourmet pub peanuts, at £6,995.

Dacia proudly informs us that not only is it cheap to buy, according to CAP HPI’s ‘pence per mile’ list – pretty much what it says on the tin – it’s the least expensive car to run in the UK, too. An actual 20.63p per mile, apparently. We presume Dacia is taking into the account the fact that you run the Sandero almost everywhere at full throttle.

Other cheap new cars? The cavernous Dacia Logan MCV (£7,295) and the significantly less cavernous Suzuki Celerio (£7,499).

But the bigger, more irrelevant yet moderately amusing question looms: just how many Dacia Sanderos can you get for the price of one McLaren Senna hyperthing? The UK’s cheapest, against one of the UK’s most expensive?

Well, the answer is simple. A grand total of 107.219442 Dacia Sanderos can be had for the price of one £750,000 McLaren Senna. Quite what you do with the 0.219442 of spare Sandero is up to you...