Random Car Reviews
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:33 am
I was quite happy with my Mondeo. It may be boring, but it went where I pointed it and the turbo-diesel got me there fast enough. It didn't have enough storage for me in the front, and it would have been nice to have rear electric windows. Seriously - that's the worst thing I can say about it except it was a Mondeo and it was a bit boring!
Well now I've got a Vectra.
It has even less storage in the front. I can't even fit an A/Z in the glove box FFS!
I can't see out the back anything below about 5 feet high.
The suspension is made from F*cking Jelly!
The winker control stick thingy is made from Jelly! Seriously - it's flippin me out.
The radio is shit.
There's no mileage computer.
The Cruise Control only goes down and not up.
It has really uncomfortable seats which I slide around in and they stick in your back.
It doesn't quite go where you point it; only nearly.
And that f*cking suspension means the back end slides all over the place if you push it round corners...
On the plus side - it's quite fast! The turbo on the Mondeo was totally invisible. This one is much more like the old days with a real kick up the backside when it decides to join you! Combined with the shitty suspension and under-steer it makes for quite a wild ride, which I'm actually starting to enjoy in some perverse way!
I still want my Primera back though. At least it had Alloy wheels and a CD auto-changer <!--emo&:rant:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/4013/140/emo/angry1.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='angry1.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I'm practically going to be living in my car now I'm the only engineer left in the company, so stupid things like the my Mondeo had a cup holder and somewhere to plug my MP3 player and phone in will really be missed <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Well now I've got a Vectra.
It has even less storage in the front. I can't even fit an A/Z in the glove box FFS!
I can't see out the back anything below about 5 feet high.
The suspension is made from F*cking Jelly!
The winker control stick thingy is made from Jelly! Seriously - it's flippin me out.
The radio is shit.
There's no mileage computer.
The Cruise Control only goes down and not up.
It has really uncomfortable seats which I slide around in and they stick in your back.
It doesn't quite go where you point it; only nearly.
And that f*cking suspension means the back end slides all over the place if you push it round corners...
On the plus side - it's quite fast! The turbo on the Mondeo was totally invisible. This one is much more like the old days with a real kick up the backside when it decides to join you! Combined with the shitty suspension and under-steer it makes for quite a wild ride, which I'm actually starting to enjoy in some perverse way!
I still want my Primera back though. At least it had Alloy wheels and a CD auto-changer <!--emo&:rant:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/4013/140/emo/angry1.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='angry1.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I'm practically going to be living in my car now I'm the only engineer left in the company, so stupid things like the my Mondeo had a cup holder and somewhere to plug my MP3 player and phone in will really be missed <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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