Having driven a 2009 Vauxhall Astra for years, I was recently fortunate enough to be able to lease a new car through work. Having a family who enjoys camping I was looking for something a bit bigger and when a deal for a Kia Ceed SW fell through, I went back to the estate/SUV drawing board.

In the end, I settled on a Hyundai Tucson (the manual, non-hybrid version). It's a great car, but my main criticism is the feeling of road feedback it gives through the clutch and brake pedal. On rougher road surfaces, when slowing and stopping, it's like I can feel almost every road imperfection through my feet. I even drove another Tucson as a comparison to check it wasn't just mine, and it felt the same, with the salesman confiding that he felt the same about the ride quality.

My question is, how often do you find this in cars? Other than the aforementioned Astra from 2009 we own, I haven't had much experience of newer cars. Do bigger cars with bigger wheels tend to feedback the road surface through the pedals to some degree? Or is the Tucson just particularly bad in this regard?