Cars that surprise you
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Turned up at a Hire company to collect the 'Class E' car that I had booked (their website example was a mondeo) to see a C-Max awaiting me.
Rather displeased. Hire company were a bit pissy when I pointed out that it was not much like a Mondeo. Apparantly their 'E' class is a Petrol 1.8, and the 'F' class a diesel Insigina. They thought they had done me a favour.
They offered to get the proper F to me, but it would have been a Hyundi I40. 2,000 miles in one of those? No thanks!
So as the C-Max was diesel with bluetooth, and the alternatives were just as rubbish I gave it a go.
It's a remarkable car, composed, quiet, reasonably swift and given its platform amazing size inside.
I'm going to have to apologise in the week as they were right it's not a bad car at all...
Any one else had similar s
t cars that turned all right in the end?
Rather displeased. Hire company were a bit pissy when I pointed out that it was not much like a Mondeo. Apparantly their 'E' class is a Petrol 1.8, and the 'F' class a diesel Insigina. They thought they had done me a favour.
They offered to get the proper F to me, but it would have been a Hyundi I40. 2,000 miles in one of those? No thanks!
So as the C-Max was diesel with bluetooth, and the alternatives were just as rubbish I gave it a go.
It's a remarkable car, composed, quiet, reasonably swift and given its platform amazing size inside.
I'm going to have to apologise in the week as they were right it's not a bad car at all...
Any one else had similar s
t cars that turned all right in the end?Toyota Aigo. Given one as a courtesy car as it was all that was available at the time and beggars can't be choosers when you need to earn a living.
Was expecting it to be like the modern equivalent of an Austin Metro but was totally wrong. It was quiet, nippy and chuckable. I'd never own one obviously but if I was 17 again and had one of these I wouldn't have been upset with my choice.
Was expecting it to be like the modern equivalent of an Austin Metro but was totally wrong. It was quiet, nippy and chuckable. I'd never own one obviously but if I was 17 again and had one of these I wouldn't have been upset with my choice.
I'd have had the Hyundai over the Ford any day. mph1977 said:
Corsa D in 1.2 is underpowered and needs to be given a damn good thrashing to perform, the Corsa C in 1.2 form was rather a happier car.
True, but in all honesty, with it being a 1.2 I wasn't really looking for performance, just something to rattle around to the shops and to work. For what it was as a car to get me from A-B, I actually liked driving it just as much as my current car, there was something about it which I couldn't put my finger on and I was sad to hand it back!
premio said:
mph1977 said:
Corsa D in 1.2 is underpowered and needs to be given a damn good thrashing to perform, the Corsa C in 1.2 form was rather a happier car.
True, but in all honesty, with it being a 1.2 I wasn't really looking for performance, just something to rattle around to the shops and to work. For what it was as a car to get me from A-B, I actually liked driving it just as much as my current car, there was something about it which I couldn't put my finger on and I was sad to hand it back!
Edited by mph1977 on Saturday 27th April 22:42
For me its the Mk 1 Santa Fe 2.0 diesel 4wd we have on the farm - i sulked when i heard it was bought.
I wanted something worthy of a farm - a proper 4 x 4
, not a soft roader pretend 4 x 4 - and the Santa Fe really didn't float my boat.
But it came - its been a rather surprising machine - its a very decent tow car - pulling 1 to 1.5 tonne very well with plenty of power and its got sufficient wieight to handle that wieght.
Its also a rather pleasent machine to drive if your not looking for something to trill you in the driving stakes - been very comfortable with a nice driving position and well laid out controls and decent seats etc.
No reliability issues in nearly 12 months and i love the way its specced - both air con and a sunroof etc.
So its a nice enough car - and i like it a lot more then i thought i would - no its not PH worthy - but id miss the damn thing if it ever went.
Sir Fergie
I wanted something worthy of a farm - a proper 4 x 4
, not a soft roader pretend 4 x 4 - and the Santa Fe really didn't float my boat.But it came - its been a rather surprising machine - its a very decent tow car - pulling 1 to 1.5 tonne very well with plenty of power and its got sufficient wieight to handle that wieght.
Its also a rather pleasent machine to drive if your not looking for something to trill you in the driving stakes - been very comfortable with a nice driving position and well laid out controls and decent seats etc.
No reliability issues in nearly 12 months and i love the way its specced - both air con and a sunroof etc.
So its a nice enough car - and i like it a lot more then i thought i would - no its not PH worthy - but id miss the damn thing if it ever went.
Sir Fergie
Supernova190188 said:
Octoposse said:
I worked on the Olympics last summer (worst ten weeks of my life (almost!))
Sorry to drift off subject, but what was so bad about it?(Actually not THAT bad, and did get to drive a whole heap of brand new BMWs and other motors, but saw nothing of the Games themselves except . . . a car park in the rain. Watched the opening ceremony on iPlayer about three days later - wept with emotion, partly as a sympton of exhaustion).
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