[TW]Fox said:
Most of these MPV's are utterly pointless.
as spoken by some1 who's never had to take a baby on holiday with them. I agree that MPVs are pointless when you've got toddlers that are potty trained and can walk everywhere
but with babys its a whole different matter. First you've got all the usual crap that parents have to bring along, pushchair, changing stuff, umpteen changes of clothes, toys to amuse them with, not to mention all the stuff you yourself want to bring. MPVs have a much larger load space
with the seats down, load space to the roof is 1658 litres on a C5
with the seats down, load space to the roof is 1969 litres on a Picasso
plus on a picasso you have the option to remove the rear seats invididually as required. with all 3 removed you have 2128 litres. The estate just cant match it.
and thats before we go onto the feeling of space inside the car, and the improved visibility offered by the higher seats.
Ive owned my picasso for over a year now, and its been heavily damamge in crashes twice in that time (neither my fault, both times all un-insured losses were recovered) and each time all the occupants were un-harmed. Its been cheep to run and reliable. So far not had a single breakdown, and all its had spent on it is a £120 Service and Mot and a new set of tyres at £35 a corner. its comfy, spacious, practical and easy to drive.
Others have had differing experiences with picassos. Think its about 60 out of 100 in Auto Express' reader survey. One of the criticiisms levelled against it in that is performance and they have a point. Diesel engines are slower than petrol. and fastest petrol is 1.8 and does 120 and 0-60 in 10.00 and mid gear acceleration is sluggish, but then again, it does me, as the car i had before this was an 8v 1.4 polo that was even worse at 0-60 in 14 ....
[TW]Fox said:
Errr, you sure can. I don't think any of the Xsara Piccasos, for example, were even available with leather seats let alone heated electric leather memory seats like on the C5 Exclusive..
Xsara Picassos and Scenics (Scenic II excepted) are not exactly well endowed with kit.
he speaketh the truth. Spec list on the Exclusive is limited to Climate control, ABS, automatic wipers, full electric windows, CD player, Fogs
Stuff like satnav is an optional extra on all trims, and leather electric seats is a no no.The older ones are even worse. Exclusives are 2002 onwards, anything prior to that will be at most an SX, which only has normal Air con, front electric windows only, and no automatic wipers.
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