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Had an 07 plate for 2 years, imagine the updated version isn't vastly different here's my experience:
Plus points:
- Fuel efficiency is probably some of the best you'll ever see (£20 a month in fuel doing about 5,000 miles a year 80% town driving)
- £20 road tax
- Small so easy to park
- Can fit more in it than you would think and cabin is roomy for a small car
Bad points:
- Clutch went after 46k and know somebody who had an Aygo from new and had two replacement clutches before 60k
- Seats super thin and uncomfortable
- No fun to drive, no fun to look at, generally low spec
- Calliper seized for no reason
- Exhaust was corroding pretty quick
I left the experience thinking if you want a small city car and you want to be able drive anywhere for literally a few quid then this is the car for you. Pretty cheap insurance also.
It is purley an A-B cost saving machine, and for a person who's always loved cars I grew to dislike it, because efficiency is the ONLY upside.
I also thought, yes it's very good on fuel, but if it just keeps eating clutches and other bits it's perhaps not as cheap as you think to run.
Glad could share my experience hope this helps.
Plus points:
- Fuel efficiency is probably some of the best you'll ever see (£20 a month in fuel doing about 5,000 miles a year 80% town driving)
- £20 road tax
- Small so easy to park
- Can fit more in it than you would think and cabin is roomy for a small car
Bad points:
- Clutch went after 46k and know somebody who had an Aygo from new and had two replacement clutches before 60k
- Seats super thin and uncomfortable
- No fun to drive, no fun to look at, generally low spec
- Calliper seized for no reason
- Exhaust was corroding pretty quick
I left the experience thinking if you want a small city car and you want to be able drive anywhere for literally a few quid then this is the car for you. Pretty cheap insurance also.
It is purley an A-B cost saving machine, and for a person who's always loved cars I grew to dislike it, because efficiency is the ONLY upside.
I also thought, yes it's very good on fuel, but if it just keeps eating clutches and other bits it's perhaps not as cheap as you think to run.
Glad could share my experience hope this helps.
i drove a 64 plate for 3 months and a 66 plate for 4 months (sep-dec 2016 and jan-now 2017 respectively) in central london mainly with a couple of motorway jaunts:
it was great for city driving. very economical on fuel. easy to park, my 66 model even came with a reverse camera. light clutch and steering is also good for the city.
unlike the poster above I actually enjoyed driving it in city situations. it's lack of power makes it fun in london where the limit is 20 or 30 on most roads, because you can rev it and push it to the limit in gears 1-3 without going dangerously fast or having to look out for speed cameras/etc.
it's got a pretty long first gear IMO, which is convenient since you can manage most city driving in gears 1 and 2, maybe 3 if you're cruising along at 20-30 for a while?
mine weren't high enough mileage to comment on reliability
it was no fun at all on any road where you could go 40 or higher. on motorways especially it felt extremely underpowered and got blown around by the wind a lot. if I had more than one passenger it was almost painful to drive.
if you want a bit more power you could look into getting the citroen c1 with the 1.2 engine. the c1 and the aygo are the same car, made in the same factory, just rebranded by the respective companies. I've been told that if you open up the c1 some parts even still have the toyota logo on them.
IMO it's a great car for saving money and for maximising convenience when driving in the city. I also found it pretty fun at lower speeds in town. but if you want to go faster than 40 or load it with people it quickly feels like a pain!
it was great for city driving. very economical on fuel. easy to park, my 66 model even came with a reverse camera. light clutch and steering is also good for the city.
unlike the poster above I actually enjoyed driving it in city situations. it's lack of power makes it fun in london where the limit is 20 or 30 on most roads, because you can rev it and push it to the limit in gears 1-3 without going dangerously fast or having to look out for speed cameras/etc.
it's got a pretty long first gear IMO, which is convenient since you can manage most city driving in gears 1 and 2, maybe 3 if you're cruising along at 20-30 for a while?
mine weren't high enough mileage to comment on reliability
it was no fun at all on any road where you could go 40 or higher. on motorways especially it felt extremely underpowered and got blown around by the wind a lot. if I had more than one passenger it was almost painful to drive.
if you want a bit more power you could look into getting the citroen c1 with the 1.2 engine. the c1 and the aygo are the same car, made in the same factory, just rebranded by the respective companies. I've been told that if you open up the c1 some parts even still have the toyota logo on them.
IMO it's a great car for saving money and for maximising convenience when driving in the city. I also found it pretty fun at lower speeds in town. but if you want to go faster than 40 or load it with people it quickly feels like a pain!
My girlfriend has a 14 plate Aygo.
Its cheap to run, reliable and quite good on fuel, albeit not quite as good as we expected, coming in at the high 40's and perhaps over 50 MPG on a steady run. Free road tax. The model she has basically has no toys at all, not even air conditioning, and rather amusingly, it has electric windows, but there's no switch on the drivers side to control the passenger side window, but then its so small you can just reach across and use the switch.
It doesn't actually feel all THAT slow either as long as there's just you in it and you're prepared to use the revs. Very tall gearing mean that around town there's barely any point in using higher than third gear, and this obviously means its completely gutless unless you thrash it. The tall gearing also makes pulling away a pain, as its so easy to stall, so then you just end up using tons of revs especially on hills which probably explains their propensity to eat clutches.
For what it is, it is reasonably fun to drive. The engine has more character than your usual inline 4 and is quite happy to be revved and sounds pretty good doing so. There is little grip from those skinny tyres so its quite easy to throw it around even at quite low speeds, although the steering is slow and lifeless.
Its an OK little city kart IMO. Prefer it a great deal to the 1.2 Corsa C it replaced.
Its cheap to run, reliable and quite good on fuel, albeit not quite as good as we expected, coming in at the high 40's and perhaps over 50 MPG on a steady run. Free road tax. The model she has basically has no toys at all, not even air conditioning, and rather amusingly, it has electric windows, but there's no switch on the drivers side to control the passenger side window, but then its so small you can just reach across and use the switch.
It doesn't actually feel all THAT slow either as long as there's just you in it and you're prepared to use the revs. Very tall gearing mean that around town there's barely any point in using higher than third gear, and this obviously means its completely gutless unless you thrash it. The tall gearing also makes pulling away a pain, as its so easy to stall, so then you just end up using tons of revs especially on hills which probably explains their propensity to eat clutches.
For what it is, it is reasonably fun to drive. The engine has more character than your usual inline 4 and is quite happy to be revved and sounds pretty good doing so. There is little grip from those skinny tyres so its quite easy to throw it around even at quite low speeds, although the steering is slow and lifeless.
Its an OK little city kart IMO. Prefer it a great deal to the 1.2 Corsa C it replaced.
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