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Out of interest if the Volvo is so good and the Vauxhall isnt as good, why didnt you pick another Volvo? Although you said it's Motability it's still your car and you are still paying for it, so you really should pick something you like!
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Out of interest if the Volvo is so good and the Vauxhall isnt as good, why didnt you pick another Volvo? Although you said it's Motability it's still your car and you are still paying for it, so you really should pick something you like!
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The cars you can get change every 3 months, also often so does the upfront cost for a specific car which not everyone can afford.
A quick check shows the Insignia but not the Volvo on the current list.
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You can only keep cars for 3 years and then you have to either buy it, or have it replaced so the mobility can sell it on before things go wrong and so the value dont drop too much. But saying that the volvo is worth about £10000 now, was about £35000 new, but the moment it was driven off the forecourt, half of that was gone straight away.
The mobility is different now then when we had the volvo, as you could have basically any car if you paid towards it, but now its limited to I think £22000. So there was no way we could have another volvo the same spec because that was I think £35000. Its a tad of a pain because of the caravan towing, but people say that the vauxhall will tow quite well. But we will see in the summer.
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I just got back from a ~5 hour blast around The Chilterns. I managed to average a real-world 32MPG (click to click) which I am really impressed with since I had it in sport mode and third gear a lot of the time.
I never noticed before, but in sport mode with the windows down you can hear the "psshh psshh" from the turbo, but you can't in comfort mode.
Being able to send the car a route directly from www.bmw-routes.com is AWESOME. I know that the professional media costs £2k, but once you've had it, I think it would be very difficult to downgrade.
"I hate the 1 series" comments in 3, 2...
I never noticed before, but in sport mode with the windows down you can hear the "psshh psshh" from the turbo, but you can't in comfort mode.
Being able to send the car a route directly from www.bmw-routes.com is AWESOME. I know that the professional media costs £2k, but once you've had it, I think it would be very difficult to downgrade.
"I hate the 1 series" comments in 3, 2...
I live in Egham and have done a similar route to that quite a few times now and always had a great time. Doing another Surrey run with some others ridiculously early tomorrow morning, but we're starting a bit further south and going down to the coast.
Nice one! I want to do more runs like this, but I don't really know where to go or what's good to see. I very nearly went to Weymouth because I haven't been before, but I wanted a more entertaining drive. I should've stopped in Wendover though since it's a historic market town. Oh well, next time.
If you don't mind, please would you post a Google Maps link with your waypoints for tomorrow's trip? It might inspire me if I see what other people have got in mind.
I'd say come along tomorrow but unfortunately we're full up. I do this sort of thing fairly regularly though, so I can message you when there's another one if you want?
I'll trust you the link to the drive now
I'd say come along tomorrow but unfortunately we're full up. I do this sort of thing fairly regularly though, so I can message you when there's another one if you want?
I'll trust you the link to the drive now
I'm definitely down for that, cheers
I also noticed that for the first time last week, after having it for nearly 2 years.
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New temp car today, loads power but hate it, astra design 1.6 08 plate 3door silver/mettalic grey, hopefully upgrade to m3 soon
Loving the RS4. Out of curiosity, what sort of mpg do you average day to day? I ran a BMW X5 4.8is a while ago and I averaged anything between 14-20 mpg just tootling around normally. Did see 26mpg on a long boring run to the north of Scotland once but those sort of figures were rare. Totally different vehicles I'm sure you'll agree but it was my only recent taste of low mpg figures in a car I've owned. Just curious what the RS4 manages.
You need a manual to get the most out of the fuel and get it in the highest gear as quick as poss, bypassing a few gears if you can. our vauxhall is saying 58mpg atm, but thats only because its not getting thrashed much and having it in 6th gear as soon as possible helps too.
In the spec of our vauxhall, it says it will do 75mpg, so almost double of the volvo as that did about 40mpg.
Umm thats abit dodgy isnt it, travelling over 60mph while taking pics of your speedo?
In the spec of our vauxhall, it says it will do 75mpg, so almost double of the volvo as that did about 40mpg.
and finally, proof that the RS6 truly is an economical family car
Umm thats abit dodgy isnt it, travelling over 60mph while taking pics of your speedo?
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rs4?.....RS4?......R.....S.......Flaming.....4.....?
It's a RS6 but they look so similar I forgive you
It averages about the same as the X5 (14-18mpg) for normal "A" road driving, up to 23mpg on Motorways but it drops to less than 8 if I hoon it around the back roads of Oxfordshire
Umm thats abit dodgy isnt it, travelling over 60mph while taking pics of your speedo?
It was taken my mate in the passenger seat which felt just as dangerous as trying to take one myself with his arms getting in my way
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rs4?.....RS4?......R.....S.......Flaming.....4.....?
It's a RS6 but they look so similar I forgive you
Whoops!!! Apologies.
