My car was in for it's 10k service today (a hefty

shame you didnt get a 1.2htp - they're great!

electric mirrors - i use mine all the time for reverse parking. allows me to get really close to the kerb without damaging the alloys.

electric mirrors - i use mine all the time for reverse parking. allows me to get really close to the kerb without damaging the alloys.

Ditto

just had one of these as a courtesy car too, a nice saloon version in gold. It was perhaps the slowest car I have ever driven but you can't argue with 70mpg. I found the controls like clutch and steering much lighter than in my vrs and the brakes loads better too - maybe theres something wrong with mine.

All in all I liked it but it was little too sedate for me but then again I did get it for free.

Good cos i gave it some beans and it only had 45 miles on the clock

I found the brakes very responsive aswell

I seriously hope you are joking! I have driven far to many of these now as courtesy cars :thumbdwn:

No the SDI doesnt have a turbo so the engine should go on forever!

no i'm not joking. thought it was a great little car with nice revvy, interesting sounding engine. glad to get back into mine afterwards of course, but not a bad little motor i thought..

ive had a sdi for 3yrs now and leaving aside its many problems its great in its main role ie getting us down to cornwall from yorkshire many times a year.

feels alot faster than its figures suggest but i would get a turbo next time for the hilly yorkshire runs.

weird but i was given a tdi courtesy car the other week and the performance differance didnt blow me away like i expected ,plus the engine felt rough.

so when is the vrs estate due then??

I had a 1.4 MPI one the last time my car was in for work, and I really didn't like it. It only had 4k on the clock but it felt tired and lifeless, had no guts at all and recorded abysmal fuel economy - crawling through traffic admittedly, but the same traffic I had crawled through in my vRS to get to the dealer - recording about 35 MPG in the vRS - and not much over 20 in the petrol car. On the motorway at 70 mph it also recorded not much over 30 MPG. So much for "economical" smaller engines.....

Don't know about the rest of you, but I tend to drive briskly (not unnecessarily fast, but usually if I can move quickly & safely, I will) and as a result, cars with no power to speak of tend to be very thirsty because they get a big dose of right foot - so it's a false economy to drive "economy" cars as I'll just flog them to death :(