Now, don’t be alarmed, I know what you’re thinking and I’m fully aware that I’ve just put a Lamborghini (my favourite car company) in my list of this year’s worst cars. The thing though, the Urus is not a proper Lamborghini; it’s a marketing exercise. Firstly, it only costs £160,000 which isn’t a proper Lamborghini price tag. Second, its name “Urus” is about as interesting as a toenail, and lastly; quite simply – it’s an SUV (I’ll explain this further with the Peugeot next).

Think of it this way, Hoover dominated the vacuum cleaning scene of the mid 20th Century and in my mind Lamborghini have ruled the V12 supercar scene in the same way. However, Hoover are now known in the cheap end of domestic appliance market – let’s hope that isn’t Lamborghini’s destiny.

Lambo only put 640bhp in the Urus (stop chuckling), meaning it averages 14 miles to the gallon (high considering the badge on the nose) and gave it a top speed of 190mph. Whereas being Lamborghini, they should have given it 10 million charging Italian horse powers and a laser gun on the bonnet. That’s just the Lamborghini way – or at least, it used to be. This car is on the list, because its Lamborghini going soft, and for the masses.

The 5008 is in this list for one very simple reason, although I’m fully aware this may not be an overly popular opinion. I also know it’s this year’s Best Large SUV in What Car’s Car of the Year awards, but it makes little difference in my eyes. The issue here is that in return for handing over 35,000 of your hard-earned pounds, you get a 2.0L diesel canal boat with less than 200bhp.  And I’m sorry but in a car of this size, with the various weighty bits of kit inside you do just need a bit of grunt. The 2.0L I mention is the top spec, it almost makes me smile that Peugeot offer a 1.2L low end version with less than 130bhp. It takes more power than that to run a food blender. And to make matters worse, there is no option of 4WD, so contrary to the belief of many owners – it’s actually a big hatchback

The 5008 is in this list for one very simple reason, although I’m fully aware this may not be an overly popular opinion. I also know it’s this year’s Best Large SUV in What Car’s Car of the Year awards, but it makes little difference in my eyes. The issue here is that in return for handing over 35,000 of your hard-earned pounds, you get a 2.0L diesel canal boat with less than 200bhp.  And I’m sorry but in a car of this size, with the various weighty bits of kit inside you do just need a bit of grunt. The 2.0L I mention is the top spec, it almost makes me smile that Peugeot offer a 1.2L low end version with less than 130bhp. It takes more power than that to run a food blender. And to make matters worse, there is no option of 4WD, so contrary to the belief of many owners – it’s actually a big hatchback

Finding this year’s worst cars has been relatively simple. Choosing the best however, has been a little more tricky. I mean yes, BMW have released a load of new cars including updates on the 3, 6 and 8 series and I’m sure they’ll be superb. The problem is, they’re technically so capable; they’re almost a little dull. Daihatsu are not a company I know much about – but when I saw this car on 2018’s release list, I just had to share. It is hilarious. It’s the same size as a peanut and has less than 50bhp. The whole car weighs not much more than half a tonne, and yet costs equivalent to £8,000. The engine must be no bigger than a pencil sharpener – but that’s why I love it. It caught my eye and made me smile, something very few low-end mass market cars do these days.

I’m sure by now we’ve all at least heard of spaceship-producer Rimac (yes, the one Richard Hammond binned over the side of a hill). Well that was the Concept One, which proved (before catching fire) that it was fast. Seriously fast. Head-scratchingly fast. And the reason the C Two is on my best cars list – is because they’ve made it even faster. The C Two will take it’s poor, befuddled driver from a standstill to 60mph in 1.85 seconds. That’s unimaginably fast. It even makes light seem slow. And the numbers only get bigger, as the Rimac climbs to 185mph in under 11.8 seconds. To put that into perspective, the McLaren we’ll come to in a moment takes nearly 18 seconds to do the same. It’s extraordinary and unprecedented. The thing max’s out at 258mph, I mean can you even imagine going that quickly, inches from the ground. Rimac are showing that despite the future of driving being quiet – it’s only getting faster.  

It’s tricky now to make the Senna – which by the way has more power than any other road legal car McLaren have ever made, seem quite as exciting as it should. It’s got a 4.0L twin-turbo V8 chucking out 790bhp and nailing down 0-60mph in 2.8 seconds. The issue here is that it’s fast, but nothing like as fast as the Rimac C Two I mentioned earlier. The thing is though, I’ve kind of accepted it. You see, McLaren could have decided to use the Senna to replace the P1 – stuffing it both ends with hybrid power and batteries; but they didn’t. The reason I actually love the Senna, is because it does just run of petrol, spitting flames and deafening passers by (within a range of 25 miles). The Senna is just a big, silly, one fingered solute to the whole idea of automotive ecoism. It’s politically incorrect, it’s outrageous, it does what it likes; it’s wonderful.