One way around skyrocketing fuel prices is, of course, to buy an electric car. But they still don’t work for everyone just yet – so if you need to stick with petrol or diesel for the time being, what options do you have? Well, the most obvious is to buy the most frugal car you can.
Which cars are those, though? We’ve gathered together the top 10 most fuel-efficient petrol, diesel and hybrid cars you can buy in Britain right now. We’ve ranked them by their official WLTP combined fuel consumption figures; while these probably won’t accurately reflect what you’ll be able to achieve in the real world, they are at least useful for meaningful comparison, as they’re all obtained under the same set of predefined test conditions.
And we’ve also excluded plug-in hybrids, because while they boast fabulous official figures these are wholly dependent on how much charge they have and, therefore, how often they’re plugged in. Great if you’ve got somewhere to do so – not so much if you haven’t.
So if you haven’t got somewhere to plug in your car, and you are worried about fuel prices and availability in the UK in the future, these are the cars that should be on your list to try: the 10 most economical cars on sale today.
