As the Fabia has been having it's turbo replaced, I have a hire courtesy of the AA (Standard AA cover with a new VRS is Relay plus and it rocks with a passion!)

When we got to the hire place I got the "Well we are a bit short but I think we have had something just come back in..."

It turned out to be one of these;

Having done about 200 miles in the thing I now feel as if I can provide a bit of feedback on the little beast.

Why anyone would throw

My GF has one of these (a 1.4 Sport not the exclusive). She loves it to bits, I reckon it's a rattly bag of ****e.

That's maybe a bit harsh. I don't think it's too bad for a 1.4 and it is lugging a lot of weight, certainly a lot better than her previous 1.2 Clio. She gets 40ish mpg and is not a smooth driver.

The handling is rough, the gear change ok. The interior is pure Vauxhall corsa. Silver look plastics are easily scratched.

The powered boot get very irritating, seems very slow in the rain with armfuls of shopping. Boot is a usable size even with the roof down and is quite big with it up.

The roof is very bling.

Faults...roof has stuck once or twice and I've had to get the special rod from under the seat to pump it down. Bolts in the boot are not galvanised and rust. A very stupid error Vauxhall refuse to fix. It does rattle but there is a fix for this, the GF is just too lazy to take it down to get done.

I refuse to drive it unless in an emergency, to be a man drive these is to join the Blue Oyster club.

Thats a random hire car!

Drive a 1.8 yesterday. Leather is nice but the engine is seriously gutless. Barely faster than the 1.4. 36mpg for 120bhp, not good.

I test drove the tigra 1.8 sport.

I loved it it has loads of umph, and uphill in 4th gear it acellerated really rapidly.

The power steering is brilliant, but corning felt really odd!

It also looks like a corsa on the inside its nasty.

Although you can adujst the seat, and the steering wheel it still does'nt feel like a normal convertible.