You will be pleased to know........she has arrived!!

Why on EARTH didnt you buy a German/Japanese car???

You like the French car? thats no reason to buy a car at all... because you like it.. just silly...

I wonder how many French car owners actually end up selling their car due to the endless rants about how the car that is serving them perfectly well will explode/rattle them to death sometime in the coming future. Or that they should basically hang up their tackle as they simply cannot be a man with a car like that... I mean... it isn't German and doesn't have V-Tech!

We all know French cars use inferior materials a lot of the time, and indeed electricals, and I struggle to understand why someone would drop 15k on a clio from new when the same could buy a warm Golf or whatever.

But surely people can see why when they reach the sort of prices the OP is talking of, the playing field changes and levels out? It may be a totally reliable motor or it may explode tommorrow. Those that say only French cars go wrong most of the time need to just peruse this forum, loads of issues with BMWs, VWs, Seats, Fords etc etc. Although that is also probably due to the majority refusing to buy anything remotely French or Italian. All cars go wrong and statistically French/It cars go wrong more often than their German counterparts, but I wonder how say a 3 year old French car bought for the same money as a 10 year old German car compares...

Although saying all that... I'm not sure it would have been my choice for 24k a year :), 10k maybe, if it included backroads... not 24k of (I assume) mainly motorway miles.

Gotta be something with a medium/long wheelbase and a softer suspension setup for that kind of mileage surely? Still, the only person that needs to like your car is you, so luckily it really doesn't matter what anyone else says.

Not sure why I posted this as I know exactly what the majority response is going to be.
 
manic_man said:
Not sure why I posted this as I know exactly what the majority response is going to be.
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I'm not sure this is the response you were expecting, but if you read the 2nd post things will become clearer I guess. From what I read this isnt the usual £8k corsa purchase and everyone biting at the chomp.
 
No I read that, I assume the OP has said in the past he would never buy a Renault, and now he has gone and bought a Clio.

I was having a down moment and read the inferred responses as being "why have you bought a French car, doesnt anyone think about their car buying purchases anymore?"

I'm assuming he bought French as he liked the car?

Didnt word my post very well though, sorry.
 
I have un-earthed some more info about my new 172.

I gave the Renault dealership a bell where the previous owner purchased the car from to see if they did the cambelt back in November.

'Yes Sir, the cambelt was done when the new engine went in'

The lady who owned it before the previous owner thought it was 72,000 miles when the cambelt should be changed and it snapped on her.

Renault replaced the engine for a new one and she swapped it in for a new car.

So, I have a shell that has done 36,000 and an engine that has done 8,000 miles.

I was happy-ish with the Saxo, that is still sitting on my drive. It constantly got 380-410 miles to a tank, it was fun to drive but lacked the basics that you would find in a 5 year old Corsa 1.2 SXI or Fiesta 1.25 Zetec.

A/C was a biggy for me. I drove a Golf and drove my mates Skoda Fabia vRS. Having a Saxo VTR for my first car for 3 years and then a VTS for 4 months I tried driving the Skoda like I do these and was horrified at how it lacked any kind of feel and the body roll made me feel uneasy.

I said one day I will own another Saxo, a VTS for sure or maybe a 106 GTi as they are awesome little cars. I have now racked up 250 miles in the Clio and it is very comfortable to sit and chug along in which was always a grey area in the Saxo.

Throwing the Clio into corners it does not feel as planted as the Saxo, it has a tendency to roll a tad but it sticks to the road very well, better than the Saxo, most probably due to the low profile tyres.

I said I would never buy a French car again after the niggles I have had with the VTS but I failed to remember the VTR did not need any mechanical work doing on it for 3 years and 45,000 miles.

I am not expecting a trouble free ownership with the car, no doubt niggles will crop up but it produces decent MPG figures and the fun factor is always there for when I need it.

If I had to sell it for whatever reason I would have no idea at all what to replace it with. 205 HDi maybe :D
 
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[TW]Fox;14266647 said:
Does anyone on this forum put more than a passing moments thought into car choice these days or is buying a car the sort of thing you do in the same way you'd chose a breakfast cereal :p
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I just part exchanged my MY57 530d at carcraft for a 2004 Chevrolet Matiz with no electrics and got it on finance over 11 years with a total amount repayable of £25k. It was a straight swap too.

Did I do bad?
 
Lay off the guy lads, nothing wrong with a clio
I have his big brother the 182

Had it 2 years and not had a single problem with it, its fast and handles like a go kart

When I get a bit older Il move up a rung to a big phat Jap or BMW for my next car
 
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