THE RENAULT CLIO is a household name. It’s the best-selling car in Europe, and we reckon its popularity is justified. Indeed, we named the current Clio the best small car you can buy at the 2025 What

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TOTAL UK SALES 2,129,648 That the death of the Fiesta made national news headlines demonstrates just how much love Ford’s long-serving supermini had received in the UK. But even that perhaps understat

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It’s a quarter of a century since the last Issigonis-shape Mini was built, ending the run of Britain’s most enduring people’s car. We mark 25 years with an alphabetical trawl of Mini facts and figures