Drove a Cactus today and liked it.
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Had the misfortune of having one of these as a hire car for two weeks in France this month - it was the diesel auto and no matter what throttle pressure you applied it took half an hour to change gears and felt like the brakes were being applied (they weren't just felt like it), the eco stop start took ages to cut in when you wanted to go again, it would just roll forward or backward once you took your foot off the brake until you applied some revs, seemed to have a throttle on/off switch which made creeping forward or back slowly on the brake look like you were using kangaroo fuel.
Had a decent sat nav but that was it - can't say how much I hated thing. Each to their own.
Had a decent sat nav but that was it - can't say how much I hated thing. Each to their own.
Mine arrives mid September. Purple with black airbumps, a 1.6HDI Blue in Flair trim, manual, with the optional glass panel roof and white roof rails and mirrors.
Perfect company car for me with low co2, high mpg, and the company fleet insurers agreeing to cover my teenage sons at no cost due to it being so slow! Which in the London area saves me about £5K a year!!!!
Perfect company car for me with low co2, high mpg, and the company fleet insurers agreeing to cover my teenage sons at no cost due to it being so slow! Which in the London area saves me about £5K a year!!!!
I tend to like quirky French cars so obviously like the Cactus. They have an SUV version in the works too (obv.).
Like they way they have approached the problem of car park door-bangers by putting duvets down each side and making a thing of it. Excellent.
Only slight fly in the ointment is that they are smaller in real life than they can appear in pictures, but that leaves plenty of scope for further variants I suppose.
Like they way they have approached the problem of car park door-bangers by putting duvets down each side and making a thing of it. Excellent.
Only slight fly in the ointment is that they are smaller in real life than they can appear in pictures, but that leaves plenty of scope for further variants I suppose.
Picked one up for my better half last week. The 110 petrol Flair. Impressed so far, was nice and quiet on the M4, comfortable and spacious inside (rear legroom is comparable to my e39 5 Series) and surprisingly swift for an engine with such modest output.
Styling divides opinion, personally I think it looks great. It's classicly Citroen in that respect. Only gripes so far; the 3 cylinder turbocharged petrol delivers its power in exactly the same manner as a bigger engined diesel, sounds a bit rough as well.
Rear windows pop out rather than wind down, and the infotainment/multi media screen froze leaving us with no access to radio or heater controls until we switched off the engine, locked and unlocked the car.
Im please with it. Just hope it proves to be reliable.
Styling divides opinion, personally I think it looks great. It's classicly Citroen in that respect. Only gripes so far; the 3 cylinder turbocharged petrol delivers its power in exactly the same manner as a bigger engined diesel, sounds a bit rough as well.
Rear windows pop out rather than wind down, and the infotainment/multi media screen froze leaving us with no access to radio or heater controls until we switched off the engine, locked and unlocked the car.
Im please with it. Just hope it proves to be reliable.
I got one for the good lady on PCP. Blue HDi 100 Flair manual. Metallic purple, black airbumps and all of the gizmos, such that they are. The infotainment pod is a bit poorly thought out on first, second, third use but once you get your head around French logic (oxymoron I know) it's fine. Very light, sub 1100kgs IIRC. The diesel will return a real world 55mpg's whatever you do. I have had it up to 68mpg's on a run driving for mpg's not speed.
Auto gets slated and rightly so. Avoid until sorted which I'm sure it may be for C02 purposes.
Stop/start is a bit quirky unless I'm just a meff. Stop at lights, engine turns off then sometimes, without any touching of anything the fecker turns itself back on! Reversing camera great on fish eye. It can see round corners.
All round I like it but more importantly my lovely lady loves it and the kids love it. It's a very simple, effective car which ticks all of the boxes as a family vehicle in my opinion.
Whats more, due to the rave reviews residuals are predicted high so you can get 12000 per year on an 18 month PCP with 6 down for roughly £6/day. That doesn't even buy you 2 pints nowadays. Man maths.
Auto gets slated and rightly so. Avoid until sorted which I'm sure it may be for C02 purposes.
Stop/start is a bit quirky unless I'm just a meff. Stop at lights, engine turns off then sometimes, without any touching of anything the fecker turns itself back on! Reversing camera great on fish eye. It can see round corners.
All round I like it but more importantly my lovely lady loves it and the kids love it. It's a very simple, effective car which ticks all of the boxes as a family vehicle in my opinion.
Whats more, due to the rave reviews residuals are predicted high so you can get 12000 per year on an 18 month PCP with 6 down for roughly £6/day. That doesn't even buy you 2 pints nowadays. Man maths.
Edited by Trophy Husband on Wednesday 26th August 16:23
simo1863 said:
Gutless but funky. Flawed but has charm and puts a smile on your face. A bit like the Jeep Renegade.
SORRY BUT WHAT?The Renegade is a hateful piece of 'engineering' it's so nasty, it has the same underpinnings of a 500L, same infotainment system, same climate control knobs. Admittedly it does drive a wee bit better than the 500L but it's still bloody awful.
I took one home last week and as I'm walking up to it the remote central locking fails so I have to unlock the door with the key and I am unable to open any of the other doors. A quick Google shows it is a common problem and an easy fix is to disconnect the battery for a minute or two and hope it's fixed itself, I was fortunate it worked and I was very pleased to see the back of it the following day.
Trophy Husband said:
Stop/start is a bit quirky unless I'm just a meff. Stop at lights, engine turns off then sometimes, without any touching of anything the fecker turns itself back on!
That's perfectly normal. If you've stopped and it's turned itself off, if you have the blower on, the headlights, wipers, or the system just thinks that the drain on the battery is too much at that particular time, it'll start itself back up again. 
budgie smuggler said:
irish boy said:
I like them, but the auto is absolutely terrible. Worse than a smart car. But I'd consider a manual.
Is it the automated manual like in the new c3 picasso or a different (traditional type) autobox?
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