Uncomfortable motorway cruisers
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Just picked up a little SEAT Arosa 1.0S to use a run around and for my short commute to work. Paid £1.5K for an 03 model which isn't a bad price when compared with others on the market. The mileage is a bit high but it runs fine.
I checked the service book to find 10 stamps in there. The first 6 are all from a SEAT main dealer.
On checking the dates and milages in the service book, it seems this car was doing over 20K miles per year for it's first 3 years. I feel very sorry for the poor sod who was driving it up and down the motorways of this country all that time. My 20 mile journey back home from picking it up showed that 70mph = 4000rpm.
The car is noisy at these speeds, it gets blown around by corsswinds and venturing in to the outside lane needs a lot of planning as acceleration is almost none existent above 70mph.
However, for driving round town it's great, and it's absolutely tiny so can be parked in the smallest spaces.
Can anyone think of a worse motorway car?
edit: actually i'm probably being too hard on the car. I'm sure it's no worse than any other car of the same size and power
I checked the service book to find 10 stamps in there. The first 6 are all from a SEAT main dealer.
On checking the dates and milages in the service book, it seems this car was doing over 20K miles per year for it's first 3 years. I feel very sorry for the poor sod who was driving it up and down the motorways of this country all that time. My 20 mile journey back home from picking it up showed that 70mph = 4000rpm.
The car is noisy at these speeds, it gets blown around by corsswinds and venturing in to the outside lane needs a lot of planning as acceleration is almost none existent above 70mph.
However, for driving round town it's great, and it's absolutely tiny so can be parked in the smallest spaces.
Can anyone think of a worse motorway car?
edit: actually i'm probably being too hard on the car. I'm sure it's no worse than any other car of the same size and power
cptsideways said:
My Seat Arosa with the 1.4 Tdi is brilliant in comparison 70mph is about 2k rpm with plenty of go after that. Not noticed crosswinds being a problem yet.
It's now my main car for daily running about & would happily drive it to the Alps tomorrow, assuming I get the cruise control fitted of course.
I really wanted a 1.4tdi but they hold their value very well so it was out of my budget. Also, there's hardly any Lupo's or Arosa's for sale with this engine.It's now my main car for daily running about & would happily drive it to the Alps tomorrow, assuming I get the cruise control fitted of course.
Doesn't the 1.4TDi come with 'sport' suspension, which might make it handle crosswinds a bit better.
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