Opel Adam

With funky looks, too-cool-for-school model names and a bewildering range, the Vauxhall Adam is aimed at fashionistas

If you fancy a distinctive city car, with a raft of personalisation options and the chunkiness of an SUV, then the Vauxhall Adam Rocks could be the car you’re looking for. Quite obviously based on the regular Vauxhall Adam hatchback, the Rocks’s ride height has been increased by about 15mm – apart from on the S version – while the bodywork’s been beefed up with contrasting plastic protective class

Appealing directly to younger drivers – and the young at heart – is the Vauxhall Adam, a compact three-door hatchback sitting below the Corsa in the firm’s range size-wise, but above it in price. Vauxhall claims that what makes this car stand out as unique is the high level of personalisation a customer can specify thanks to more than a million design combinations – and that’s proved such a succes