Cars in Action has reached a pretty significant milestone ? our tenth birthday. So we decided to do something a little different for once ? something that not only salutes our first decade, but it's also an exercise that defines our focus and redefines our core values, too.

Welcome to Cars in Action's Ten Best ? our favourite ten cars from our first ten years...

The rules were simple: select our ten top cars with every represented marque only allowed one model each. So that cuts out something like having four BMWs, three Porsches and two Subarus in here and thereby allowing a more diverse, more interesting selection of cars...

So yes, there may be one or two obvious omissions, but generally they're represented here by adequate siblings in their respective ranges and if there's something missing, there's a good reason ? or we reckon that car just isn't good enough.