Crossover SUV type car, things.

fadetoblack · 16 Nov 2012 at 18:28

Spunkey said:
In other news, Parkinsons has just been voted Degenerative Disease of the year.

Your point being?? :rolleyes:

Macro · 16 Nov 2012 at 18:33

XC70 D5 /nod

GravyMonster · 16 Nov 2012 at 21:29

fadetoblack said:
Your point being??

A) Those awards are completely meaningless.

B) Crossovers are family cars trying to be offroaders and failing badly at both.

Conanius · 16 Nov 2012 at 21:31

I actually really like the yeti. Had a sit in a 1.8 TSi 4x4 Elegance and it seemed rather nice. They remap really really well and everyone seems to rave about the handling.

Lashout_UK · 16 Nov 2012 at 21:35

Spunkey said:
A) Those awards are completely meaningless.

B) Crossovers are family cars trying to be offroaders and failing badly at both.

I don't know. A lot of them are pretty good off-road (Yeti for example). After all, how much do you actually need it to be able to do?

Lashout_UK · 16 Nov 2012 at 21:38

jigger said:
God no. That thing makes the Freelander look good!

Good shout on the Outlander tho.

Old Compass or new Compass? The new Compass isn't bad, looks pretty sharp in the right colour. Not a great car but not a bad one either, particularly if you get it cheap.

Lashout_UK · 16 Nov 2012 at 21:41

jigger said:
What spec was your Yeti Lashout? Did you do much towing?

I'm thinking of a 140ps TDI 4x4 manual in SE or SE Plus spec.

It was a 140 TDI 4x4 in Elegance spec. Real nice bit of kit, just did, well, everything...

fadetoblack · 16 Nov 2012 at 22:04

Spunkey said:
A) Those awards are completely meaningless.

B) Crossovers are family cars trying to be offroaders and failing badly at both.

where does it say he's going to need real hard off road ability?? i would not say they are bad family cars ether.

andicole0 · 16 Nov 2012 at 22:17

jigger said:
I was planning on picking up a Defender or Terrano for the job but it would be parked up 90% off the time. Plus I have a little Ford for running around in that I was about to change soon anyway.

Its a 2 birds with one stone car.

The VW has a max towing capacity of around 2250kg and the Yeti is rated at about 2050kg which is close but leaves me with a little spare.

Also take a look at a double cab pickup (Navara etc), I used one for towing kit cars around for a few years. Take a look at insurance and tax disc costs as they are quite cheap.

Andi.

jigger · 16 Nov 2012 at 23:18

Spunkey said:
A) Those awards are completely meaningless.

B) Crossovers are family cars trying to be offroaders and failing badly at both.

I have to say the Tiguan is a very nice drive and would make a great family car.

It's never going to get near a something like a Landrovers for offroad capability, but a Landrover is not even in the same league as the Tiguan on road.

I understand what your saying though.

jigger · 16 Nov 2012 at 23:19

Lashout_UK said:
It was a 140 TDI 4x4 in Elegance spec. Real nice bit of kit, just did, well, everything...

What did you get to the gallon out of interest?

Lashout_UK · 16 Nov 2012 at 23:36

It averaged (on paper, not on the trip) about 41mpg generally. You could push it a little higher without much effort though and driving really gently would see it nudging, if not exceeding, 50mpg. Depends on what you're doing with it, of course...

Berger · 17 Nov 2012 at 01:40

I made a thread about this only the other week.

My favourite of all the small SUV cars was the Tiguan, not sure if you are going to have to go for a medium/large 4x4 to get the towing capacity you require though.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18456390

jigger · 17 Nov 2012 at 19:46

Well, I went and had a look at everything I was interested in today.

After that I drove to the Skoda dealer expecting an easy decision to drive straight to the VW dealer and buy a Tiguan. Sadly the Yeti is a ******* amazingly good car and I'm in a conundrum again over the two.

Talon · 17 Nov 2012 at 20:04

There are two guy at work with Tiguans and both are forever in the garage. I'very got a CR-V and love (though I would still prefer to be driving round in something fast as hell)

Draeger · 17 Nov 2012 at 20:30

Peugeot 4007 (Outlander with French designed clothes on). I posted in Berger's thread he has linked to, about mine. Fantastic family SUV and as well as being an excellent drive on the road with a grunty powerplant it is actually quite capable off road too. I love mine to bits.