Replacing IX35 with another SUV....be kind!

Banzai_Joe · 27 Jul 2016 at 10:46

take all the mpg claims with a pinch of salt and find a car that you like to drive instead

Yep....i'm now using this as my car buying mantra!

Gaygle · 27 Jul 2016 at 11:37

Banzai_Joe said:
If my original question had been;
"I'm bored with my IX35, so want another car, preferably an SUV for a similar price, what would you recommend?"
How would that fare?
I had to move my sons Seat saloon this morning, i swear i cold feel the gravel scrape my a$$ it was that low. Kind of reminded me why i like SUV's i guess. I do suffer from a bad back.

The thing is, the list you made in your first post are all completely and utterly as dull as your IX35. SUV's generally are dull because they're mostly driven by school run mums who want to be able to cart their kids to school and reverse into walls in safety. However, you have picked out the dullest of the dullest in that list. They are all cars that your parents would have because they're reliable and mostly comfortable.

I guess the only "interesting" small SUV I can think of is the Range Rover Evoque http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201606225162223

Banzai_Joe · 27 Jul 2016 at 12:00

Gaygle said:
The thing is, the list you made in your first post are all completely and utterly as dull as your IX35. SUV's generally are dull because they're mostly driven by school run mums who want to be able to cart their kids to school and reverse into walls in safety. However, you have picked out the dullest of the dullest in that list. They are all cars that your parents would have because they're reliable and mostly comfortable.

LMAO....ok, fair enough.

I guess the only "interesting" small SUV I can think of is the Range Rover Evoque http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201606225162223

I love the Evoque, but way out of my budget i'm afraid.

Might do as suggested and wait for a hybrid that peaks my interest.

Gaygle · 27 Jul 2016 at 13:10

Banzai_Joe said:
I love the Evoque, but way out of my budget i'm afraid.

Might do as suggested and wait for a hybrid that peaks my interest.

I thought your budget was £20-30k? There are plenty in the low £20k also.

Banzai_Joe · 27 Jul 2016 at 13:14

Yeah, sorry. I adjusted my budget a few posts back.

Gaygle · 27 Jul 2016 at 13:19

Banzai_Joe said:
Yeah, sorry. I adjusted my budget a few posts back.

It's £25k now right?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201604223247544

Here's one for less than £22k so you'd have £3250 to spend on fuel and a holiday.

Or another one:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201605264320510

There's loads of them in the low £20k area

Banzai_Joe · 27 Jul 2016 at 19:51

Ok, so having thought about it, the main reason I like the suv is the higher driving position as I have issues with my back.
However, when I drive the works i3 (which is frikkin awesome), due to its fairly high roof I can raise the seat up to almost the same height as my ix35.
So im wondering if I could make do with a nice hatch that allows a lot of vertical seat adjustment to give me a similar seated position, whilst also offering some fun to drive aspects.
Any more advice on this please?

GT3 · 27 Jul 2016 at 20:54

My mum has had various crossover type vehicles as she is disabled and requires the higher driving position. She went to a show recently in Manchester and tested pretty much every new one out on the market out and decided she is getting a Seat Alteca as soon as they are released. I don't know much about it but might be worth a look? I think they are released in September.

Banzai_Joe · 28 Jul 2016 at 09:40

Yes, looks very nice and good spec.
Really hanging my nose over the Mazda CX-3 now.
But due to a disappointing resale value of my car i may have to wait until next year now

cheesyboy · 28 Jul 2016 at 09:54

telewebby said:
my currebt vw jetta on my commute to work says 57 mpg on the dash and when calculated brim to brim it is getting 43mpg. My old e90 320i was the most accurate and that was exactly 1.5mpg out showed 34.5 was getting 33.

take all the mpg claims with a pinch of salt and find a car that you like to drive instead

Alex

My Passat's onboard computer calculates average mpg as an equation based on the amount of time the 'instant' MPG figure is at its reading.

So if you travel for 10 minutes at 60mpg and 10 minutes at 20mpg, then it will say you averaged 40mpg.

But that ignores distance. If you were travelling at a speed of 30mph for that first figure, and 100mph for the second, then the actual average mpg would be come out at around 24mpg.

[TW]Fox · 28 Jul 2016 at 12:31

cheesyboy said:
My Passat's onboard computer calculates average mpg as an equation based on the amount of time the 'instant' MPG figure is at its reading.

So if you travel for 10 minutes at 60mpg and 10 minutes at 20mpg, then it will say you averaged 40mpg.

But that ignores distance. If you were travelling at a speed of 30mph for that first figure, and 100mph for the second, then the actual average mpg would be come out at around 24mpg.

What?

Surely it measures it based on fuel flow and distance traveled :confused:

I have never owned a car that wasn't accurate to within 1mpg every single time, tank after tank.

cheesyboy · 28 Jul 2016 at 12:40

[TW]Fox;29839319 said:
What?

Surely it measures it based on fuel flow and distance traveled

I have never owned a car that wasn't accurate to within 1mpg every single time, tank after tank.

No. I don't know where it gets the 'current' MPG value from, but the average is averaged over time (which is obviously mathematically incorrect for MPG)

I noticed when travelling a 40 mile commute, mainly motorway miles. There was a section of roadworks about 20 miles in, where we'd be crawling at ~10mph for about 3 miles, and the current MPG reading was very high (circa 80+). This was a few years ago, so the details are a little hazy, but essentially, that 3 mile section was pushing my average MPG up from about 40 to 60+. That simply isn't possible if the gauge was calculating correctly, but was bang on if it's using time as part of the averaging.