Company car drivers in diesel cars will not see a drop in their tax payments in 2016, as chancellor George Osborne announced the 3 per cent supplement in BIK tax will stay until 2021.

A British civil servant getting a bespoke Aston Martin as a company car funded by taxpayers? Yeah, right. James Bond might be driving the one-off Aston Martin DB10 in the new movie Spectre, but we list 10 British-built cars that would do the job just as well. Maybe.

A diesel hot hatch can offer the best of all worlds: space for all the family, and their luggage, strong performance, and great fuel economy as well as low BIK tax payments.