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If you’re looking for the best company cars on the market, then we’ve done the hard work and assembled the best company cars shortlist
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4 January 2013

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Looking for the best company cars? Here’s our list of the best

IF you’re searching for the best company cars on the market, then you’re in the right place.

Business Car Manager has revealed the best company cars for small businesses and SME firms (small and medium-sized enterprises).

“For those business drivers researching your next company car, then you must take a look at our list,” said editor Ralph Morton.

All the best company cars have been chosen by four independent judges in the first SME Company Car of the Year Awards run by Business Car manager in association with MAGMA Automotive Services.

The company cars had to meet certain criteria such as good running costs, low company car taxation, as well as be attractive to drive and own.

“Small businesses and SME company car drivers have much more choice over their car and are influenced by ‘driveway appeal’ and the badge as much as the financials underpinning the car,” added Morton.

“When a car becomes a company car winner, though, it combines all these conflicting attributes to become the best company car on the market.”

Best Company Car List

Best company cars:Peugeot 208 action shot
Peugeot 208: good looks, 83.1mpg

Peugeot 208 1.4 e-HDi Access+ 70 EGC Stop and Start 5dr

Modern design, innovative multimedia display, low running costs, 83.1mpg, 100% First Year Capital Allowances. Winner of Most Cost-Efficient Car for an SME to Buy.

Best company cars: Audi A1 Sportback
Audi A1 Sportback: great badge, low company car tax

 

Audi A1 Sportback 1.6 TDI SE 105PS

Stylish compact hatchback, premium badge, low running costs, over 74mpg, 13% company car tax band. Winner of Most Cost-Efficient Car for an SME Company Car Driver.

 

Best company cars: Mercedes-Benz E 300 BlueTEC Hybrid
Mercedes-Benz E 300 BlueTEC Hybrid: prestige in bucketfulls but without the company car tax penalty

Mercedes E 300 BlueTEC Hybrid G-Tronic Plus

Expensive certainly, but brilliant for the small business boardroom, thanks to 65.7mpg, low CO2 emissions, and a company car tax band of just 12%. Plus all the prestige of a Mercedes badge. Winner of Best Company Car for SME Directors.

Best company cars: Range Rover Evoque
Range Rover Evoque: hugely desirable, wonderfully practical, all capped off by that Range Rover namplate

 

Range Rover Evoque 2.2 SD4 Dynamic 190hp 4WD

Achingly desirable yet practical plus there’s four-wheel drive and all the cachet of the Range Rover badge but in a more compact, affordable package. Winner of Best Company Car for SME Business Owners.

 

Best company cars: BMW 320d EfficientDynamics
BMW 320d EfficientDynamics: brilliant balance between driving dynamics and financial husbandry

BMW 320d EfficientDynamics

The perfect balance between driving dynamics and business efficiency. Plus the appeal of the BMW badge. It doesn’t get much better for company car drivers. Winner of Best Company Car for SME Drivers.

You can read more about the Best Company Cars, as well as find out which is best company car overall, in our special section SME Company Car of the Year Awards 2012.

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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