The engine's answer
Best petrol car for a couple doing towing, under €30,000
Ford Focus
72% match
The best-driving family hatchback, on its way out.
Why it wins here
The dimensions where it beats the rest of the market by the most, for this question specifically.
- Budget
- Fuel
- Use
Why it wins
Ford Focus costs €29,000 — €1,000 under the €30,000 ceiling — seats 5 and carries 392 L in the boot. Where it pulls furthest ahead of the field is budget, fuel, use. Overall: a 72% match for this question.
What's good
- Still the keen driver’s choice in the class.
What to watch
- Production is ending, which will hurt resale.
What came close
- SEAT Leon72%A Golf with the volume turned up and the price turned down.
See listings on AutoScout24 See listings on mobile.de - Hyundai i30 Wagon68%A five-year-warranty estate.
See listings on AutoScout24 See listings on mobile.de - Dacia Duster68%Genuine rough-road ability at a supermini price.
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What the runners-up gave up
- SEAT Leon (72%) lost mainly on comfort: 72/100 against 72/100 for the winner.
- Hyundai i30 Wagon (68%) lost mainly on price: €30,500 against €29,000 for the winner.
- Dacia Duster (68%) lost mainly on comfort: 58/100 against 72/100 for the winner.
Questions this answer covers
- Does Ford Focus fit under €30,000?
- Yes. At €29,000 it leaves €1,000 of headroom, and the budget was treated as a hard ceiling — nothing above it was allowed to win.
- How does it cope with towing?
- On the measures that matter for towing it scores 43/100 against a field average of 26/100, with 880 km between stops and running costs of about €200/mo a month.
- Why a petrol car?
- The question fixed the fuel, so only petrol car models were eligible — Ford Focus is the one that scored highest among them.
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This page answers one decision. Yours is not that decision — adjust the budget, the fuel or who is on board and watch the whole market re-rank.
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