PERODUA has secured its largest yet fleet deal - 125 Nippas taken on by Enterprise Rent-A-Car for its UK rental business. Most of the 850cc-engined five-door hatchbacks, the cheapest new car in Britain at £4,620 on-the-road, are destined to become courtesy cars.

CAP Motor Research rates the Nippa EX model the least expensive to run at 14.4p per mile over 60,000 miles.