Polo/Fabia buying advice
- Thread starter Nande2000
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To be honest I've found it more fun driving a low powered car quickly. Our little Citigo is a hoot as you try to maintain speed through the bends.
Yeah, they are cool. Daughter not keen though.
Is she paying for it?
Not meaning to stir anything up but we bought our daughter a £1299.00 Peugeot 108. Nice little car which she crashed and bashed as she learned to drive. She is a cracking little driver now.
The 1.0 polo 80 goes beyond low powered and firmly into the realms of dangerously tragic. I don't habe the vocabulary to emphasise how bad they are.
The 107 and 108 are low powered, but are light and sufficiently lively as a consequence. They have sufficient response to be useful and are fun to drive because good they reward good observation, anticipation and gear selection.
The Polo 80 is simply woeful. Spot a gap in traffic or an opportunity, tread down a gear and gun it and nothing happens. You simply cannot execute anything on the fly and are forced into either taking risks or meekly going with the flow and hoping somekne lets you out of that side turn every time. Thats the difference between low power and effectively no power.
Next time youre in a 107 or 108 take a 10mm spanner with you to remove one of the coil packs, then you'll have an idea what a dangerous proposition the overweight and underpowered Polo 80 is. They exist only to assist in bringing down VWs range average CO2 emissions, which is beneficial taxation wise in many markets for them as a manufacturer.
Agree with you totally on the Polo. Fortunately the Citigo even in the 60hp variant we have has a modicum of go due to its light weight. Such that I am able to make overtakes in it. Although overtaking seems to be frowned upon now
You can't put your kids in a Skoda... come on, what have they done to deserve that?
Allegedly trendy now its pronounced Shhkowda
I'd be gutted if I found one
Properly surprised people still believe Skoda are the same as they were decades ago.
Only by Jonathan Woss.
Had an 04 fabia 19 tdi we did over 80,000 miles trouble free .
That made me chuckle. Customer came in to pick her fabia up the other week and one of the other guys politely said "hello, you here to pick your skoda up?" Only to be met with the reply, "it's pronounced shhkowda!"
Update
We’ve managed to buy her first little car an Audi A1 1.2 2012
A very tidy 2 owner low miles full service history car fingers crossed it’s a good one for her! She LOVES it
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