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The auto bodystyle is one of the best applied agency to booty bodies and stuff. That ample bear allows accessible access, and folding bottomward the seats can advice backpack in alike added gear. But the best allotment is that hatches accept a fun side, too.
So actuality are a fifteen of our admired hatchbacks that can be anchored in the barn for beneath than $20,000.
2017 Chevy Sonic
Price: $18,455
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 28/38
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 19
One of our longtime admired hatches, the Chevrolet Sonic, is fresh-faced for 2017 with a new headlamp, grill, and bonanza treatment. Chevy has additionally widened the blush palette for the Sonic, congenital new caster designs, and adapted the autogenous with a new 7-inch infotainment system. Chevy says this is the aboriginal car in its chic with an alternative ability driver's seat. And all hatchbacks abrasion the adventurous RS amalgamation with a sports exhaust, collapsed basal council wheel.
The Sonic's mechanicals abide abundantly the same, acceptation you'll appetite to absorb an added $750 and accept the torquier 1.4-liter turbo motor. Back commutual to the six-speed manual—it's absolutely fun. And speaking of fun, a few added bucks spent will accompany bluff handing. Chevy offers two bargain abeyance options, which is actual cool, and the cheapest way to get one (as continued as you don't apperception blooming paint) is to opt for the Krypton Blooming amalgamation for $595. Of course, that puts the turbo Sonic at $20,880—but that's still an accomplished deal.
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2018 VW Golf
Price: $19,985
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 25/36
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 22.8
Okay, yes the Golf is one of the cars complex in VW's agent scandal. But the agent powertrain isn't capital to the Golf's goodness. Beneath the awning of the atomic big-ticket one is a 170 hp turbocharged four-cylinder. That's a lot of application for a car this size. And the abounding 199 lb.-ft. of torque accessible way bottomward at 1,600 rpm absolutely makes the Golf a quick little hatch.
Although it's hasty that a car in this chic would use a five-speed chiral instead of a added avant-garde 6-speed. Regardless, it is a fun chiral to row through. Those attractive for beneath to do can opt for the 6-speed automatic. Unlike some baby cars, the Golf feels affluent and ample on the central with abstracts that assume to appear from the abutting chic up and rear bench that rivals ample sedans. The Golf charcoal abundantly banausic for 2018 except for accepted LED appendage lamp lighting and LED daytime alive lights.
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2018 Kia Rio 5-Door
Price: $16,500 (estimated)
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 30/40 (estimated)
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 17.4
The Kia Rio was alive aback for 2016, but there's a acceptable acumen to skip the 2017 model—there's an all-new 2018 appropriate about the corner. The 2018 Rio 5 Door ability abridgement some of the beheld bite the aftermost design, but it leads the chic with alternative technology. Back it rides on a lighter, stiffer all-new platform, it should be a bigger car to drive,too.
All models still use a 1.6-liter gasoline absolute bang four-cylinder, but abnormally application and torque accept alone hardly to 130 hp and 119 lb-ft of torque. However, that agent can now be affiliated to a six-speed manual. A few years ago, Kia fabricated the auto models six-speed automatic-only. And we're aflame the stick is aback for '18. The hardly best wheelbase agency there's added allowance inside. In fact, rear bench legroom has broadcast by about 2.5-inches and burden aggregate is up by 2.4 cu-ft to 17.4. And on a car in this class, that's significant.
The new Rio 5 Door will appear with an accessible 7-inch infotainment awning with Apple Carplay and Android Auto as able-bodied as an alternative assurance like free emergency braking—a aberration in the class. Pricing and ammunition abridgement haven't been finalized, but because the class, the new Rio should absorb amplitude able-bodied beneath our $20,000 ceiling.
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2017 Toyota Yaris SE
Price: $17,200
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 30/36
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 15.6
The Toyota Yaris is a solid amount in the auto auto class. So abundant so that the higher-level SE archetypal can be had able-bodied beneath $20,000. For that price, absolutely for the abject amount of aloof over $15,000, the Yaris comes with Toyota's apartment of accepted assurance appearance that includes a pre-collision system, lane abandonment alert, and automated aerial beams.
The Yaris gets a new attending for 2017 that includes the barbecue and bumpers. And the SE cast wears a blacked-out grill, beyond 16-inch wheels, and a leather-trimmed council wheel. Beneath the metal, the Yaris is the aforementioned basal apparatus it's been back 2012, and that agency it uses a about old 1.5-liter four-cylinder with 106 hp commutual to a five-speed chiral or an old academy 4-speed automatic. Back was the aftermost time you saw a 4-speed automated in a new car?
In agreement of powertrain prowess, the Yaris has absolutely been eclipsed by its competitors. The ablaze atom in the calendar is the SE, which does appear with a sportier abeyance and makes the best of the car's ablaze (2,300 pound) weight.
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2017 Subaru Impreza 5-Door
Price: $19,715
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 28/37
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 20.8
Subaru is a auto and wagon specialist. Buyers of the somewhat arbitrary cast are fatigued to the added applied bodystyle in every archetypal Subaru makes. About three-quarters of Impreza sales will appear from the five-door hatch. So, back Subaru engineers advance an all-new one—it bigger be good.
The abiding all-wheel drive Impreza is all-new for 2017 benumbed on a beginning all-around platform, acceptation it's acquainted with an accomplished alloy of ride and handling. Testers are decidedly admiring with the quick council which helps about boondocks and its hustle in the canyons. A revised adaptation of Subaru's 2.0-liter flat-four butt now has absolute ammunition bang makes 152 hp—up four over aftermost year. The alone chiral chiral is old five-speed. A CVT automated with chiral about-face controls is $1,000 more. The best alive of all Imprezas will be the Sport at aloof over $22,000, featuring different abeyance affability and big 18-inch wheels.
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2017 Toyota Corolla iM
Price: $18,750
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 27/35
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 20.2
If this Toyota looks abnormally accustomed it's because aftermost year it was a Scion. Remember Toyota's adolescence cast Scion? It's gone now. So the Scion iM is the Toyota Corolla iM. It's applicable that the iM is a Toyota because the car isn't absolutely new. It's a rebadged adaptation of the Auris—a bear Toyota sells in Europe. But that's not a thing.
The iM is absolutely fun to attending at and acceptable to drive, too. It doesn't absolutely breach the auto bear cast but it does action an aberrant akin of accepted assurance equipment. For its rather bashful pricetag, the Corolla iM includes acreage abandonment alert, Toyota pre-collision arrangement and more. Toyota will put in a accepted 6-speed chiral chiral and a CVT for alone $740 more. That CVT is bargain to add but does of advance sap some fun from the 1.8-liter 137 hp four-cylinder.
The Corolla iM comes with a lot of accepted tech like the 7-inch awning for the infotainment system, a rear back camera and bifold area altitude control. This would be one actual candied aboriginal new car for a adolescent buyer.
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2017 Mazda3 5-Door
Price: $19,970
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 27/37
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 20.2
Pick any agent in Mazda's lineup, and with few exceptions, it will be the best advantageous to drive in its class. Mazda's old "Zoom Zoom" moniker wasn't aloof marketing, and the Mazda3 auto is one of the best-driving baby cars. Period. The fun allotment about the Mazda3 is that you don't charge to add annihilation to accomplish it better. Mazda has accustomed the Mazda3 a new advanced facial for 2017 that brings it in band with the beyond Mazda6. There's additionally a beginning architecture for the interior.
The accepted 155 hp 2.0-liter four butt comes commutual to slick-shifting six-speed chiral and it calmly moves this bristling 2,875-pound machine. Of course, an automated is available, but it runs $1,050 added and puts this auto over $20,000. The 184 hp 2.5-liter four-cylinder makes the Mazda3 alike added fun, but you'll charge to bead over $23,000 to get there. Alike with the accepted 16-inch tires, this little bear is a bang to bandy into a set of curves. Mazda's atomic big-ticket archetypal additionally hits 37-mpg highway.
So is there annihilation annoys us about this Mazda? Able-bodied yes, it's arresting that Mazda's iActivesense apartment of assurance appearance are alone alternative on the best big-ticket models. Why not acquiesce the cheaper cars accept the tech, too?
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2017 Honda Fit
Price: $16,090
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 29/36
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 16.6
The Fit acclaimed its tenth ceremony in the U.S. aftermost year. Back the actual aboriginal one launched actuality in 2006 as a 2007 model, the Fit has been a admired amid our editors for its adventurous persona and criterion levels of practicality. Unlike some of the cars on this list, the Fit alone comes one way—as a hatchback. The all-new third-generation of the Fit launched two years with a beyond autogenous (nearly 5 inches added rear bench legroom) and a added almighty 130 hp 1.5-liter four-cylinder that allotment 33 mpg in the burghal and a whopping 40 mpg artery for models with the CVT. Yes, the latest Fit still drives with an activity missing from best baby cars acknowledgment to its adventurous anatomy and glossy 6-speed manual.
The Fit's "magic" rear bench basal can be addled up adjoin the seatback to accomplish allowance for absolutely alpine items. Fold those seats all-the-way bottomward and there's 52.7 cu-ft of burden space. That's bigger than some abject wagons and it's affably accessible for those adventitious trips to Ikea.
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2017 Hyundai Veloster
Price: $18,100
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 28/35
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 15.5
Not all hatchbacks accept to attending practical. The Veloster is a low, athletic, and alive apparatus that aloof happens to be a hatchback, too. Pop that bear and you can booty added than best machines with a added accepted silhouette. The added big-ticket Veloster turbo models are absolute quick but the lower-priced ones accept the aforementioned adventurous anatomy beneath for backroad hustling.
A six-speed chiral is standard—and it's absolutely fun to row your own gears. That's a acceptable affair because it takes addition $1,100 to get a quick-shifting six-speed bifold clamp gearbox (DCT). It's a abundant chiral and has the added benefit of accouterment bigger ammunition economy. But if you're activity to absorb a admirable on a transmission, why not aloof get the Turbo archetypal at aloof over $21,000?
Velosters haven't afflicted abundant for 2017. There's a new Amount Edition for $21,350 that groups accepted options calm to save some dough.
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2017 Ford Focus SE Hatch
Price: $19,765
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 26/38
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 23.8
The Ford Focus, like its little brother the Fiesta, action a akin of alive amusement not usually begin in economy-minded hatchbacks. Credit the actuality that these two accustomed in the U.S. about banausic from their European brethren. Of course, the hottest auto Focus is the all-wheel drive 315 hp RS. It's the high-performance Focus of our dreams. But no, you can't accept that one for $20,000.
Still, alike the basal Focus feels abundant on a arced road. Sedans accept a best of a thrifty 1.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder and chiral transmission, but every Focus auto now uses one powertrain. Beneath the awning is a accepted 160 hp 2.0-liter with 146 lb.-ft. of torque commutual to a six-speed automatic. Two years ago, Ford gave the Focus an adapted attending and a redesigned autogenous with new bench trim, switchgear and centermost console. That absolutely makes an already hip auto alike added appealing. But if we're honest, afterwards six archetypal years, it's time for an all-new Focus.
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2017 Ford Fiesta SE Hatchback
Price: $15,190
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 27/35
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 14.9
The Fiesta is ambrosial not alone for its brittle exoteric architecture but additionally its candied alive dynamics. It's additionally helps that it's absolutely inexpensive. The un-boosted 120 hp 1.6-liter agent is standard. Move up to the SE archetypal and the torquier 1.0-liter turbocharged Ecoboost becomes a advantageous advantage for $995. As an added benefit the tiny turbocharged motor improves ammunition abridgement to 31 mpg burghal and 43 mpg highway, and back you opt for the chiral chiral with either engine, the agile bear is a absolute bang to run up a coulee road. Sync 3 articulation acceptance arrangement is alternative and comes arranged with a 6.5 touchscreen with "swipe" and "pinch to zoom" navigation.
Ford has two new auto and two new colors for 2017. The top Fiesta, the ST, is a absolute hot bear packing about 200 hp for aloof over $20,000. Though it's technically over our $20,000. It would be boxy not to amplitude our car account by a admirable to allow the ST.
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2017 Fiat 500 Abarth
Price: $19,995
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 28/33
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 9.5
It's attenuate that cars absolutely get cheaper from one year to the next. But that's absolutely what's happened with Fiat's 500 lineup. Aftermost year, the top Fiat 500 Abarth archetypal was about $23,000. But the aggregation has bargain the amount of all its 500 models, including the alarming Abarth. So, the hottest 500 now squeaks beneath our $20,000 limit.
The Abarth is a aerial achievement sub-compact bear packing a 160 hp 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder, a sportier abeyance (which is absolutely firm), bigger brakes and a absolutely disorderly bankrupt note. It's absolutely loud and absolutely fun to row through the apparatus of that five-speed manual. This has be one of the best absorbing cars beneath $20,000. Period.
An automated runs addition $995 but saps absolutely a few giggles. Cool-looking stripes add $295 and are account the money to add some beheld break from the banal 500s. And speaking of options, the Abarth has absolutely a few and they can get pricey. But the absolute botheration with the Fiat 500—it's tiny inside. There's alone 9.5 cu.-ft. of block volume. That's beneath allowance than a Porsche Boxster.
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2017 Spark Activ
Price: $16,945
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 29/37
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 11.1
No abruptness that crossover SUVs are berserk popular. But here's the thing, abounding of the abate ones are absolutely added like alpine hatchbacks. So why not booty a tiny bear and accomplish it a bit tougher attractive like a crossover? Chevrolet has done aloof that with the Spark Activ. The Activ rides on a abeyance that's .4-inch taller than the approved Spark and wears different 15-inch auto and tires. Now, there's no all-wheel drive actuality but the new advanced and rear anatomy treatments are advised to at atomic attending added asperous than the archetypal Spark.
Power comes from the approved Spark's 1.4-liter four-cylinder breeding 98 hp and comes anchored to a five-speed chiral or a CVT for an added $1,100. The Activ's taller ride acme agency it loses 1 mpg on the highway. Not a huge deal. The Activ comes with Chevy's 7-inch touchscreen with Apple Carplay and Android Auto compatibility. There's additionally a rear camera, keyless entry, and added included in that low amount point. Chevrolet offers a array of caster options as able-bodied as beheld add-ons to accomplish the Activ angle out alike more.
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2017 Nissan Versa Note
Price: $15,480
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 31/39
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 18.8
Since its barrage in 2014, the Nissan Versa Agenda has continued been one of the cleanest designs in the company's lineup. Well, this year the Agenda gets a added characteristic barbecue and headlamp analysis to accompany it in band with added Nissans. The Agenda is powered by Nissan's 1.6-liter four-cylinder and mates alone to a CVT transmission.
Early in the Note's lifespan, a five-speed chiral was accessible on the atomic big-ticket models. But that's abominably no best the case. However, the aggregation has re-tuned that CVT this year to accomplish the acquaintance feel a little sportier. To advice addition ammunition economy, Nissan has added alive barbecue shutters that absolute the air entering the agent allowance at assertive speeds and conditions, advocacy aerodynamics. The Versa Agenda is analytic ample on the central with a solid 38.3-inches of legroom accessible for rear bench passengers. And a able blueprint there not alone makes a aberration for those that charge to install bulky rear-facing adolescent seats.
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2017 Honda Civic Hatchback
Price: $19,700
EPA Ammunition Abridgement (city/highway): 30/39
Rear Burden Aggregate (cubic anxiety with seats up): 25.7
Honda's abundantly accepted Civic was the sixth acknowledged car in the U.S. aftermost year with added than 335,000 of them award homes, and there are affluence of abundant affidavit why. Its anatomy is athletic, the council is accurate, and the Civic is ample abundant to booty a ancestors aloof as able-bodied as an Accord.
But for 2017, Honda now has a auto model. Honda hasn't had a Civic bear back the fun-living Si auto of 2002-2005. This new one isn't aloof a Civic auto with a liftback. The auto archetypal is beneath by over 4 inches, and its engineered in England with firmer dampers and re-calibrated council for alike added liveliness. This Civic bear can absorb 10 cu-ft of added being in the burden hold, too.
The abject LX archetypal almost sneaks beneath our $20,000 amount cap. But if there's an added $1600 in the coffers, the Sport trim is account the money. The attitude is added aggressive, there's a accurate center-mount bankrupt arrangement and the Civic's 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder produces 180 hp and 177 lb-ft of torque—six added hp and fifteen lb-ft of torque added than the LX. And for those attractive to aerate efficiency, CVT chiral models acknowledgment a solid 40 mpg highway.
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