It has four airbags and a category one alarm system. You could also argue that it offers exceptional levels of grip and braking and its levels of acceleration will get you safely past slower traffic with the minimum of time on the dangerous side of the road. But you’ll also feel compelled to drive it to its limits and every thief in your area would love to get his hands on it…

Security deterrents include and alarm and immobiliser, Mighty Dot (which sprays microscopic unique identification specs all over the car making even individual parts identifiable) and the option of a Tracker electronic tracking device.

We can’t think of many cars with this level of performance and a boot this big, so for a performance car it’s very good. The boot capacity has actually increased due to the deletion of the space saver wheel in favour of a tyre inflation kit, although it was actually done to save more weight.