RE: Cupra Ateca: PH Trade-off!

[Dale487]

Dion20vt said:

Dale487 said:

Seat are releasing their own version of the Kodiaq - the Tarraco (shortened to Taco) which willbe a 7 seater. Maybe Cupra will get their hands on it.

Here's hoping! Cupra Taco sounds tasty!

& spicy

[Emeye]

Fuzzy69r said:

Intrigued by this car but someone really does need to look at actual fuel consumption figures instead of made up fairy tale figures , S4 doing 33mpg .............. yeah right, our manual B8 S4 saloon at best done 24mpg , same with our S3 saloon at around 25mpg

What evidence do you have that could possibly cause you to question VAG's emission and economy figures? Oh yeah......

[Baldchap]

Everyone knows that estates are cooler than SUVs.

[smaybury]

300bhp, manual, discreet as you like, and cost me £7k.

[Jonno02]

What an odd article. Of course older is cheaper.

[sh33n]

Peanus said:

Thank you o educated champion of the ignorant for pointing out the very obvious stuff that us uneducated folk just don’t get. Without your guidance I might have taken seriously the fun fluff piece article.

You're welcome.

Good for you getting another post count by quoting someone else with some drivel, well done

[IforB]

smaybury said:

300bhp, manual, discreet as you like, and cost me £7k.

I do love them. Epic if thirsty!

[Peanus]

sh33n said:

Peanus said:

Thank you o educated champion of the ignorant for pointing out the very obvious stuff that us uneducated folk just don’t get. Without your guidance I might have taken seriously the fun fluff piece article.

You're welcome.

Good for you getting another post count by quoting someone else with some drivel, well done

Likewise smiley face

[Hairymonster]

IforB said:

As for secondhand fast car Vs New fast car. Been there, done that. The new one is always the better choice financially. My old 335d cost a bomb to keep on top of it mechanically. All told, when I ran the numbers, my current S3 costs me significantly less to run overall than it's owned predecessor.

Cheap lease = better than owning an older performance model purely on a numbers consideration. Then there's the benefit of having a car in warranty and not owned by you too, which I see as a positive.

Yup - gone that way myself, though with something rather more ordinary than an S3 - Octavia Estate 1.5 SE-L with cylinder deactivation technology.

After running a 525d 3.0 estate for 5 years, I got fed up with the number of 4-figure bills it generated at the independent Beemer specialist. A lovely car which took us all down to Italy every year, but once expensive parts started needing replacing - DPF, DMF (+clutch), Crankshaft Pulley, Air suspension components, by 'eck it cost a bomb. My fault for being seduced by a 1 owner 5 year old Beemer with 85k on the clock for less than £10k. I'd probably do it again though! It averaged 38mpg.

The Octavia does 44mpg most of the time. More like 40 round town, but on a long run last week from Leicester to Bristol, driving at a steady-ish 70, I got 52mpg from it without trying particularly hard to do an economy run, which I thought was excellent. It's a turbo'd 150bhp lump and, despite my initial misgivings, has a decent amount of poke.