By Mark Nichol

Downsizing. Everybody's doing it. For some, bigger will always mean better, but those people are missing out on some of the best, most fun cars on the market. Don't get us wrong, we love big, powerful machines here at Yahoo! Cars, but we also love a well sorted, low-powered supermini. The following cars are perfect for this, because they're all great to drive.

Equally importantly, they're all good at the mundane stuff we need our cars for - like being practical, cheap to run and reasonable to insure. Here's what we would spend £5,000 on, if we had it.