Autocar's testers have picked their top 10 cars for 2010.
The selection includes everything from a £10,000 Toyota iQ at one end of the scale to a £200,000 Noble M600 at the other. We had all the cars in our studio for an exclusive photo shoot, which revealed the cars in stunning detail. You can see the gallery by clicking on the link below.
Autocar's Top 10 for 2010 - see the exclusive studio pics
Find out what our testers chose - and why - below. We've also included our top used car of the year.
Porsche 911 GT3 - Matt Prior
"A GT3 is probably the only place beyond a Caterham or a Lots where you are allowed to remain so utterly in tune with what is happening mechanically, through the contact patches of your hands. Few are the cars whose responses are so telegraphed and so linear as the GT3's. It is purposeful. It is pure. It is quite, quite brilliant.
Skoda Superb estate - Hilton Holloway
"Skoda is parking itself on Volvo's old territory by offering a hugely spacious, classy, tightly made, upmarket mainstream machine at a sensible price. It is, as Volvo might say, a car for life."
Renaultsport Clio 200 Cup - Vicky Parrott
"The Cup offers the kind of feedback and forgiving responses that can teach a beginner how to get the most from a grippy front-wheel-drive car without an embarrassing phone call to insurance underwriters at the end of it. It is affordable to buy and run, endlessly entertaining in any situation, and you can get the kids in the back and the weekly shop in the boot. That is all any enthusiast can ask of a £16k car. "
Volkswagen Scirocco R - Steve Sutcliffe
"Pound for pound, the R was probably the most well rounded front-drive performance car we drove in 2009. Which is saying something given we drove the Ford Focus RS in February and loved it. If there is such thing as a thinking man's performance car, this is it. And in blue, on 19in wheels, it also happens to look bloody sensational."
Jaguar XFR - Richard Bremner
"This car is cooked to a recipe Jaguar has been serving since it introduced the six-cylinder supercharged XJR in1994: a compelling mix of svelte luxury and pile-driving power. The XFR is the best performance Jaguar yet, and by a margin fat enough to fend off all comers."
Noble M600 - Jamie Corstorphine
"It may not be politically correct to say so, but if we're being honest, fast is fun. Fun in childish way, fun in an exciting way and fun in a dangerous way. And if it's the fastest fun you're looking for, the Noble M600 is where it's at. You can forget Gallardos, 911s and Astons; the M600 serves up 'fast' in portion sizes previously only seen with the McLaren F1 and Bugatti Veyron."
