Obviously you have to have the cars serviced by Hyundai or KIA dealers to remain qualified for the extended warranty contracts. Would you guarantee anything you made if any Tom, Dick or Harry could fiddle around with it and mess it up? Of course not. But now that Toyota offers a 5-year warranty and even Dacia offers one for an extra £395, you have to ask why Volkswagen/Audi and Ford do not too.

Readers tell me that the old 1.4 16v engine in the Polo can have bore wear problems. This is also the engine that was responsible for Volkswagen having to revise its timing belt change regime to four years. The newer 1.4TSI engine has had a few issues such as timing chain lubrication (oil related) and bore problems (ambient temperature related, when both turbocharged and supercharged). But generally the 1.2TSI 105 and 1.4TSI 122 are good engines.