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Revealed: Britain’s best used cars

SEAT Ateca

The SEAT Ateca has won the inaugural UK Best Used Car Awards staged by leading online automotive marketplace, CarGurus.

Recognising the best buys in the used car market across 13 categories, including city cars, superminis, small family cars, crossovers, SUVs and performance cars, the expert judging panel of motoring journalists also looked at stock availability and projected depreciation.

Summing up SEAT’s victory, CarGurus UK Editor Chris Knapman said: “The Ateca is a truly worthy overall winner of the inaugural CarGurus UK Best Used Car Awards.

“While all of our category winners are easy to recommend as used buys, the judging panel felt the SEAT particularly stood out for the way it excels not only in areas that you’d expect a crossover to, such as practicality and low running costs, but also ones where you might not.

“For example, it offers a genuinely enjoyable driving experience and equipment levels are generous compared with some of its rivals.”

CarGurus UK Best Used Car Awards – the winners

Overall Winner

SEAT Ateca

City Car
  1. Hyundai i10 (2013 – 2019)
  2. Volkswagen Up (2011 – present)
  3. Smart ForFour (2014 – present)
Supermini
  1. Ford Fiesta (2009 – 2019)
  2. Skoda Fabia (2014 – present)
  3. Renault Clio (2012 – 2019)
Small Family Car
  1. SEAT Leon (2012 – present)
  2. Kia Ceed (2012 – 2018)
  3. Audi A3 (2012 – present)
Large Family Car
  1. Ford S-Max (2015 – present)
  2. Skoda Superb (2015 – present)
  3. Vauxhall Zafira Tourer (2011 – present)
Small Crossover
  1. Suzuki Vitara (2015 – present)
  2. Skoda Yeti (2009 – 2017)
  3. Renault Captur (2013 – present)
Crossover
  1. SEAT Ateca (2016 – present)
  2. BMW X1 (2015 – present)
  3. Renault Kadjar (2015 – present)
SUV
  1. Audi Q7 (2015 – present)
  2. Peugeot 5008 (2017 – present)
  3. Jaguar F-Pace (2016 – present)
Performance Car
  1. BMW M2 (2015 – present)
  2. Porsche 911 (2012 – 2019)
  3. Ford Fiesta ST (2013 – 2017)
Convertible
  1. Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet (2017 – present)
  2. Mazda MX-5 (2015 – present)
  3. MINI Convertible (2016 – present)
Coupé
  1. BMW 4 Series (2013 – 2019)
  2. Audi TT (2014 – present)
  3. Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupé (2016-present)
Green Car
  1. BMW i3 (2013 – present)
  2. Hyundai Ioniq (2016 – present)
  3. Renault Zoe (2012 – present)
Executive Car
  1. Audi A6 (2011 – 2018)
  2. BMW 3 Series (2011 – 2019)
  3. Volvo S90 (2017 – present)
Luxury Car
  1. Range Rover (2012 – present)
  2. Mercedes-Benz CLS (2011 – 2018)
  3. Porsche Panamera (2010 – 2016)

About Gareth Herincx

Gareth is a versatile journalist, copywriter and digital editor who's worked across the media in newspapers, magazines, TV, teletext, radio and online. After long stints at the BBC, GMTV and ITV, he now specialises in motoring.

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