Nissan Almera GTI

£1789

Pulsar GTI, anyone? Might be just the thing to revive Nissan’s dull family hatch. That’s the trick the firm pulled off with its 1990s forebear, the Almera. The GTI version was a hoot. We found a tidy 1998 R-reg with 87k miles in racy black. Looks like a keeper.