ADD up all the associated costs for running each of these cars, including fuel, servicing, VED and a three-year PCP agreement with a £5,000 deposit, and the Vauxhall is the cheapest, at £30,801. The Tucson comes to £664 more, with the Kuga the most pricey at £33,587.
Both the Ford and Hyundai tested here narrowly breach the £40,000 mark, so are subject to the £410 luxury-car VED surcharge. For that reason, we’d drop lower in the range for both. In the case of the Ford, the front-wheel-drive ST Line saves £820 in VED plus £50 a month in PCP costs when compared with the four-wheel-drive Active, bringing the three-year cost down to £30,987 – only £186 more than the Grandland.
The range-topping Tucson costs less than the Vauxhall based purely…
