Dacia Stepway Sandero: car review | Martin Love

If low-cost motoring is your game, come on down. And be prepared to be pleasantly surprised by Dacia's new Stepway Sandero

Price: 8,714
Top speed: 104mph
0-62mph: 11.1 seconds
MPG: 55.3
CO2: 115g/km

Do you have a pet name for your car? Apparently half of us do and, according to Webuyanycar.com, the most popular this year are Swifty and Unicorn for girl cars, and Kermit and Bruno for masculine ones. A decade ago Britney and Harry topped the list. This means that half of us have also made a binary assumption about the sex of our cars. Gender fluidity has yet to arrive in the motoring industry? It made me wistful for the days when I still used to give my cars names. I can own up to The Shark and Fitzy, two lovable but useless sets of wheels. Is it because we only give names to our crappiest cars and that by personalising them we can ultimately be more forgiving of their faults? Just a theory"