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[fossyant]

My SIL can't get anything like the fuel efficiency on a Mk2 Prius than she did on a 52 Plate diesel Avensis (around town),

 

[Bonefish Blues]

a Rover 75 d auto
nice

i think ive cracked a rib.
my first car was a mk3 1.6 auto great car

Very smart buy a diesel 75 with BMW's engine sans the bits that used to break when installed in BMWs.

 

[Drago]

She needs to learn to drive it properly then. Mrs D's MKII Pious was supernaturally frugal in the urban environment, the better of any diseasel she's owned before or since.

People snigger at the Rover 75, but in its final year of production it scored higher in JD Power than every single model BMW or Mercedes made.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

...trendy like the Juke...

Words you don't expect to see used together no. 4571

 

[fossyant]

Words you don't expect to see used together no. 4571

In many folk's minds that bought them - horrid styling. PS it will be far more reliable than the BMW/MERC rubbish out there... just is.. NISSAN owner here (2 cars).

 

[Fab Foodie]

C- HR is dreadful. Poor ride, poor visibility, poor fuel consumption, and stupid ‘computer screen’ that is too large and overly complicated.
All that is bad about many ‘modern’ cars....

 

[I like Skol]

- due to the doors, the glass area, is miniscule, with it starting almost at ear level.....................
- the rear screen is about the same area as a large tea-tray, no wonder it needs a rear camera & reverse sensors

It was the Toyota C-HR

How bizarre!

I have never noticed these before today but we just happened to pull up behind one at the lights after leaving the supermarket this morning. Mrs Skol commented that she liked it, which was enough to snap me out of my little self-focused world and start me paying attention! I looked at the car and made the exact same comments as you. She repeated that she liked it

The styling is terribly over done (I use the word style very loosely!) and the rear view will be worse than useless, you may as well be driving a van!

Like you say, the designers and marketing people seem to rule the roost these days and the poor engineers just have to make what they are told, regardless of whether it is good or bad......

 

[Drago]

Daughter #3 has a new Nissan Puke. Its the top spec version, with every single option and pack. Leather wheels, 18" seats, that sort of thing. £22,000 for a rather cramped car with the roughest sounding diseasel you ever heard.

 

[BoldonLad]

The C-HR is trendy like the Juke, but its bloody impractical.

I have a Renault Captur, (Euro6 diesel, manual) which I believe is the same "running gear" (whatever that means) as the Juke. I do know that every single component under the bonnet has a Nissan badge on it.

Very pleased with the Captur, not as comfortable on a long journey (200miles +), as the Scenic it replaced, but, otherwise, no complaints.

My son is an abuser of cars (ie parks by touch, no maintenance etc etc), he has a Nissan Quashqai, which has survived this treatment for eight years now, and is still going strong, as their second car now. He now has a hybrid Mitsubishi, which I believe was a tax efficient decision rather than a "like the car" choice.

On the subject of auto/manual. I had driven a few automatics, but, not extensively. Recently purchased a new Motorhome, which is an Automatic. I am quite warming to them, if I ever buy another car, I think it may well be an auto.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I don't see a downside to a modern auto tbh.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I have a Renault Captur, (Euro6 diesel, manual) which I believe is the same "running gear" (whatever that means) as the Juke. I do know that every single component under the bonnet has a Nissan badge on it.

Very pleased with the Captur, not as comfortable on a long journey (200miles +), as the Scenic it replaced, but, otherwise, no complaints.

My son is an abuser of cars (ie parks by touch, no maintenance etc etc), he has a Nissan Quashqai, which has survived this treatment for eight years now, and is still going strong, as their second car now. He now has a hybrid Mitsubishi, which I believe was a tax efficient decision rather than a "like the car" choice.

On the subject of auto/manual. I had driven a few automatics, but, not extensively. Recently purchased a new Motorhome, which is an Automatic. I am quite warming to them, if I ever buy another car, I think it may well be an auto.

Thread diversion! What Motorhome did you get?

 

[Drago]

I like autos. Proper slushes are great, but need at least 150 brake to make them work nicely. Modern planetary geared systems like on the hybrids are luvverly too. CVT boxes are a bit poo, and MMT type boxes are fine until they break and no one but the dealer can fix them or you need to buy 2 new clutches - suddenly they're not so nice after all.

 

[BoldonLad]

Thread diversion! What Motorhome did you get?

Chausson 610. Fiat base 2.3 150 bhp. Comfortmatic gearbox. Very pleased with it. Purchase was “forced” on us, because previous van (Autotrail Apache 632) was over the magic 3.5T and DVLA refused to renew my C1 etc entitlement, at 70, so, could no longer drive it.

 

[Piemaster]

I like autos. Proper slushes are great, but need at least 150 brake to make them work nicely. Modern planetary geared systems like on the hybrids are luvverly too. CVT boxes are a bit poo, and MMT type boxes are fine until they break and no one but the dealer can fix them or you need to buy 2 new clutches - suddenly they're not so nice after all.

+1 for a proper ZF autobox. Had a Merc (W124) with one, and a couple of Nissans. Nissans both 3 speed + overdrive. A Bluebird and the current Elgrand. The Merc had a 'waft' to it I've never had in anything else.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

+1 for a proper ZF autobox. Had a Merc (W124) with one, and a couple of Nissans. Nissans both 3 speed + overdrive. A Bluebird and the current Elgrand. The Merc had a 'waft' to it I've never had in anything else.

Geek alert. Your W124 had a Mercedes built transmission which was, as you say, legendary for being waftastic.