Family car?

McHattrick · Nova Slayer Joined: 30 Nov 2018 Karma :

Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid.
What Car Hybrid of the Year.

Had a look recently at local dealer. They are a lot bigger than I expected.
Lots of boot space. Ideal family car.
And all the money you save on gas you can use to valet every other day.
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Reference to the best value for money:

Ford = cheap and cheerful
Vauxhall = cheap and nasty

As others have recommended, Hyundai and Kia are reasonable motors these days and not mega bucks either. Probably best avoid Ssangyong, poor dealership backup and parts availability.

Skoda doesn't represent as good value for money as it used to. As someone else said probably best VFM VAG brand these days is SEAT.

With the exception of Ford, avoid the American brands like Chevrolet, Chrysler and Dodge.

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stevo as b4 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Karma :

Lol! Calm yourself down and put your knickers back on. As I said it's the way you wrote your post gives the impression that you hate your firms drivers like they are the only people that cause any problems or hassle and that the office staff are the only hard workers. You've also mentioned stuff about it before in other threads about lazy drivers, and ones not looking after the vehicles or driving to save 1mpg like it's the end of the world.

It might not be quite as easy out there in the real world actually on the road as it says on an office computer system or spreadsheet. Thats my point and I see it in the firm I work for too with circa 10'000 drivers that they are seen as the ones causing the problems or costing the company money, when they are actually doing the opposite. Its like saying factory assembly workers and machine tool operators cost a company too much money, when in reality there would be no goods to sell or ship without them.

As for being an Autist, are you having a laugh. This whole fucking forum is full of Autism in various levels of severity. I've tried for years to pick out the normals and it's very hard to impossible.

Motorbike riders, who like to chat all about them and every little conundrum, issue and opinion. If that's not the very definition of Autism show me what is? Laughing

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kia soul/optima?

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Thoughts on these? It's 03:26 and I'm thinking about this way too much Laughing

P. · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

Can't be auto. I feel for you brah.

Honestly the Civic isn't great, esp with slush box.

We have a Leon currently which is nice but doesn't feel 'quality' and it's kinda plastic.

Never want to touch a ford personally, but do like the Volvo. It's not super modern but it's bomb proof.

Any reason to not look at the Kia Sportage.. it's pretty trick.

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That Leon looks good - I’ve had a 17 plate Leon FR with DSG for 2 years and it has been fine; interior is pretty much up to general VAG standards.
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stevo as b4 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Karma :

OP seems to want an auto from the examples he has picked out. Personally I see no reason to have to spend £20k to end up with an ugly and (prejudice formed) dull Volvo on your drive even if it looks to have a nice interior.

Paddy why no auto's allowed? It's an estate car at end of the day not a two seater sports car. Surely in 2019 you can't have the view that everything on four wheels should be/is better as a manual gearbox?

If so you're a dinosaur, as there's a whole generation of Millenials coming through that never had or saw a manual gearbox, and on the PlayStation they only had or won with trick DSG style autos. And they also know that on the track and spec sheets these dual clutch electronic transmissions are faster. They also have all these auto blipper functions which only facilitates more pops and bangs in their rented premium hatchbacks. Laughing