Top five: the best junior sports cars on sale

Price: £20,855

Specs: 158bhp, 148lb ft, 0-62mph 7.3secs, VMax 133mph, 40.9mpg, CO2 161g/km

The new MX-5 is everything we’d hoped for. Simple, rear-drive and over 100kg lighter than the old one, it’s perhaps the best MX-5 ever.

Read TG’s review here.

Price: £22,495

Specs: 200bhp, 151lb ft, 0-62mph 7.6secs, VMax 140mph, 36.2mpg, CO2 181g/km

Modest but revvy power, rear-wheel drive and a decent manual ‘box make for one of the most complete fun-per-£ cars of the modern age.

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Price: £22,700

Specs: 200bhp, 151lb ft, 0-62mph 7.6secs, VMax 140mph, 36.2mpg, CO2 181g/km

The Toyota twin of the BRZ, except imported in higher numbers. Think of a modern version of an Escort Mexico, except Japanese and reliable.

Read TG’s review here.

Price: £35,090

Specs: 335bhp, 369lb ft, 0-62mph 4.8secs, VMax 155mph, 36.2mpg, CO2 179g/km

The M235i becomes the M240i - which means an already great road car with added power and torque.

Read TG’s review of the M235i here.

Price: £30,650

Specs: 227bhp, 273lb ft, 0-62mph 6.0secs, VMax 155mph, 46.3mpg, CO2 141g/km

The new TT not only looks sharper, it drives sharper, too. You can have it with quattro, but the front drive one is basically a Golf GTI. Nothing wrong with that.

Read TG’s review here.