Suzuki Swift interior

Inside, you can feel where weight has been saved. The Swift has an attractive enough interior but one made largely from hard, scratchy materials. This is actually fine, I think. There are soft pads on the doors, while the switches you touch often, like the brushed-look climate control, are pleasingly finished. 

There’s a good amount of ergonomic soundness to it, too: the controls for the lights (including the foglight) sit on the left stalk, those for the wiper sensitivity on the right, and there are separate climate buttons and a soft-feel old-school handbrake.

There's also a touchscreen, of course, but you don’t need it for major driving controls or safety functions.

The lane-keeping assistance can be toggled by a button on the dash, but the speed-limit assistant (which pings with false positives, as these systems do, and is obliged to default to on) can be toggled only via a steering-wheel button and a trip computer stalk while the car is stationary, so do try to remember before you set off.

This is a silly solution, by the way: there are button blanks on the dash that could do the job, and if you have to be stationary, that negates the advantage of avoiding putting it on a touchscreen. 

Still, it's a decently spacious interior, with ample front head room and a forward-pushed windscreen such a stretch from the driver that you feel set a long way back in the car.

There’s plenty of head and leg room in the rear, too. It's relatively narrow but plenty comfortable enough for four (although it can seat five).