@Racing roadkill
Wow that's an eye opener.
It speaks for it self really where the future of cars lie
Wow that's an eye opener.
It speaks for it self really where the future of cars lie
I also bought my car brand new in 2015. It serves me well and, so far, is very reliable. I pay £0 a year VED and intend to keep it a long time. I drive it with care and don't rush from a to b. It gives me 65 mpg on average. I keep getting e-mails from my dealer offering me all sorts of deals to change it for a newer model. I am not interested. It is fully paid for and that's nice.
I got a ride in and indeed drove an old pug 205 diesel. Great to drive and went OK but I thought it a bit shabby and threadbare seeming so not built to last - then I saw it had done over a quarter of a million miles, maybe not too shabby after all!
The diesels were great and with a high top gear ratio, were very relaxed for cruising at high speeds on a long journey. Mine doesn't really do motorways very well - too low geared for sustained high speed cruising.
However, the smaller petrol engined 205s were so much nicer to drive on rural roads as the lighter engine made the steering lighter and and more positive and they turn into corners so crisply. The diesel was good but more prone to understeer due to the heavier engine and it didn't float over crests in quite same way.
Modern cars are very reliable mechanically..... its when those many electronic sensors start playing up that it costs to fix em. But we should have a few years yet.
I could have got the £0 ved in my model, but i thought the better power variant was worth the extra paltry £20 per year. Although it probably wasn't, because you're always stuck behind someone in traffic.
The petrol tank sensor failed in my wife's S-Max, I still cry myself to sleep over the cost for that, it now has a sensor failing that reports an engine fault and engages limp home mode...