Call me spoilt, but having become used to auto lights on recent test cars, I’m missing them on the Active trim i30 (auto lights arrive with the next trim up – Style). Adding confusion for me is Hyundai UK’s decision to make daytime running lights standard on all i30s.

Although mainly a welcome safety feature, when it starts to become gloomy they help to keep well-lit city streets bright enough to lull dullards like me into thinking I’m in a car where the dipped beams automatically come on when it really gets dark. until I’m flashed by fellow drivers telling me otherwise.