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INEOS GRENADIER PRICE FROM: £45,000

The long-awaited Grenadier promises to fill the gap left by the old Land Rover Defender in a way that the new Defender just couldn’t. Rugged, utilitarian and pleasingly angular, the Grenadier bears more than a passing resemblance to the long-wheelbase Defender 110 that was discontinued in 2016. Quite who it will appeal to remains to be seen, with the agricultural sector already dominated by far cheaper Japanese pickup trucks from established manufacturers with good dealer and service networks. Ineos reckons it’ll sell around 35,000 of them each year, and we reckon a lot of them will end up on city streets.

ALFA ROMEO TONALE PRICE FROM: £35,000 APPROX

The poor Tonale has been “coming soon” for years now, delayed initially for further tuning following supposed internal dissatisfaction with its performance, then by everything else that’s been going on over the past few years – it was developed and unveiled in a distinctly pre-covid world. An aggressive style belies everyday mechanicals (there’s a lot of sister company Jeep’s Renegade going on underneath that svelte front end) but we reckon that this could be the first Alfa to have truly broad appeal since the Mito or Giulietta hatchbacks. That is if it ever goes on sale, of course…

DACIA SPRING ELECTRIC PRICE FROM: £10,000 APPROX

Dacia’s Duster and Sandero are already among our favourite cars, and the Romanian marque’s Spring Electric – a small EV with a claimed range of 124 miles – looks set to be just as appealing. It has all of the funky styling and fluorescent details that you would expect from a car aimed at young urbanites, but as with the Sandero it is the cost of the Spring Electric that will turn heads. Official prices have yet to be announced, but Dacia assures us that this will be the cheapest electric car on the market – which is quite a claim, especially in a market that hasn’t always been that price-sensitive.