An award for the Dacia Logan!!

[Jason]

This is an internet forum, you're obliged to criticize and be judgemental.

not my style ;-)

 

[Salar]

Many years ago I had a Datsun Sunny, it didn't have speedo, just a calendar.

My first car was a Datsun,

Datsun 120Y Coupe.
Nice enough car until it rusted to pieces.

 

[Drago]

[QUOTE 4920701, member: 76"]Did you watch the Top Gear episode where they swabbed and analysed some second hand cars?

Several different peoples bogeys, lots of piss on the drivers seats and on the mats, semen on all the seats and some dashboards, sputum on every surface, sick, faeces, rotting food, and they had all been cleaned.......
[/QUOTE]

Some folk might actually get their jollies off that sort of thing.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I don't understand the cheap new car, when secondhand cars are even cheaper and reliable (I accept that this wasn't always the case - I wouldn't want an Austin Maxi with as many miles on as my car!)

Well my reasoning is that I know nothing about cars and how to fix them first and foremost. Secondly, I get a 5 year warranty, cheap finance and generally peace of mind that (at least to me) less likely to suffer some catastrophic failure in the near future that I have to deal with etc. etc. I do high motorway mileages and know that from the start the cars I buy have a generally easy unstressed life and go on reliably for high mileages without issue. It boils down to simplicity for me.
My Logan also comes with Sat Nav, Cruise control, Reversing sensors etc, a proper spare wheel, all the bells and whistles that are most useful to me.
Horses for courses.

 

[KneesUp]

Well my reasoning is that I know nothing about cars and how to fix them first and foremost. Secondly, I get a 5 year warranty, cheap finance and generally peace of mind that (at least to me) less likely to suffer some catastrophic failure in the near future that I have to deal with etc. etc. I do high motorway mileages and know that from the start the cars I buy have a generally easy unstressed life and go on reliably for high mileages without issue. It boils down to simplicity for me.
My Logan also comes with Sat Nav, Cruise control, Reversing sensors etc, a proper spare wheel, all the bells and whistles that are most useful to me.
Horses for courses.

Fair enough - my reasoning is that if a car looks well looked after and has a service history, you can be reasonably sure that if it runs ok at the mileages I buy them, they have been well looked after. The MOT history site is also good - if a car repeatedly fails on things the owner should notice like worn tyres and wiper blades, you can guess that it's not been that well looked after, and obviously you can see what it had advisories on last time. My current car had a totally clean MOT history apart from a fail on a duff bulb once.

I must admit I haven't been over it with a CSI swab kit, but given that I handle money and generally go out in public it doesn't worry me unduly

 

[Moodyman]

The used car route makes a lot of sense if you know what you're looking for, but a lot of people don't or can't be bothered with the effort.

The Dacia is brilliant for those wanting transport with a peace of mind and a comparatively low price. I'm also a fan of it's lack of pretenciousness.

 

[cyberknight]

Mrs CK just struggled through the snow in the stepway, says the car is brilliant and the old car wouldn't have made it.

 

[Piemaster]

small and midsize SUV's are very practical, and have taken over from the family hatchback, but these huge brutes like the Q7, X5 and Range Rover make no sense at all to me

To me the SUV thing is just the current fashion, not so long ago it was all MPV's. Audi/Alfa/BMW all make an SUV now as thats what those buying want - I mean a Mini and Fiat 500 SUV?
The height of them just seem to make it harder to get shopping/kids/bikes into as well.

 

[KneesUp]

The car is only as good as the tyres, though. I had to grit the road to get my car out of our road the other day. Now it has it's winter shoes on, it's transformed.

 

[Jason]

We have a mid sized SUV, it would have been called a large vehicle 10 years ago,but looks tiny against the big brutes of today.
Fitted winter tyres just before the snow arrived on Saturday and watched in dismay as supposedly 4 wheel drive vehicles slipped and sled around me. Winter tyres should be law!

 

[Drago]

Nokian Weatherproofs went on the Pension Book Ford yesterday. No faffing with swapping rims in summer and winter for me.