#189

Yeh it’s small but it does have 5 doors (you know 4 and a boot door) it’s kind of practical and fine and those parking spaces that people avoid because the idiot in the next space is too close we can just drive into

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#190
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#191

pretty sure that audi introduced those wicked swooshing indicators so the people who bought them would actually fucking use the things. masterstroke.

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#192

Used to have one (Pug 107, but literally the same car with different badge) and it was a great little car for knocking around town in. Small, nippy, agile, cheap.

Had to bin it off when I started having to drive 25 miles each way for work because the lack of comfort soon started to show.

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#193

What’s the deal with diesels these days? They’re bad right?

Like this:

#194

Tight fit getting 2 carseats in the back and a pram plus other baby paraphernalia in the boot though.

Nippy cars though. Used to drive a Citroen C1 a lot and it was lots of fun.

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#195

Depends on the car. They’re generally very fuel/CO2 efficient but there can be a huge disparity between stated NOx emissions and real world emissions. That Clio is particularly bad for NOx.

#196

But if I don’t care about emissions, does it matter? Is the govt going to ban them next year or anything?

As a side note, Mrs HYG is now strongly set on getting an automatic (at the moment her driving license isn’t valid here, she wants to get one though but cba to learn gears.) Sort of hoping this whole idea goes away tbh

#197

They’re not going to ban them in the next five or probably ten years. It’s a declining market for sure but they’re cheap to run, albeit a bit less so for city driving.

#198

My American colleague did the same. Then the transmission broke and effectively wrote off the car because apparently automatic ones are more expensive to replace.

#199

In the states everyone leases (well, a lot of people), they seem to have a totally different attitude than we do

#200

Depending on the age of the car, you may fall foul of London’s ULEZ. You should be alright with anything from after 2015, at the moment:

I don’t think that the government will be banning diesels for a while yet, but I’d be surprised if London doesn’t increase the ULEZ standards ahead of the national government.

If you’re mainly doing city-driving then a hybrid still (just) works out cheaper to run, but they are more expensive to buy. An additional point to consider would be that all hybrids are automatics, which may help MrsHYG.

In London you also have the added consideration of parking permits. Each borough council has their own system, but all of them are looking to reduce car-use by reducing resident parking spaces, restricting permit numbers and/or increasing permit costs. Some councils (Waltham Forest, for example), scale their resident permit prices depending on emission levels.

#201

Didn’t know that, will have a look ta

#202

unless you’re doing at least 15k miles a year mainly on the motorway then I wouldn’t bother with a diesel.

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#203

Huh. I thought my diesel Leon was Euro 5 but it’s ULEV compliant so Euro 6 (checked on the government website too) despite not having an SCR.

I’m more virtuous than I thought.

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#204

I have a 5-door Ford Fiesta with a 1.0 litre Eco-Boost petrol engine. Car tax is zero (nil) because of the engine; it gets very good mileage (50mpg in the hilly countryside where I live, 60+ mpg on long A-road/motorway journeys) but is very nippy/fast if you want to drive that way (it’s like driving a car with a ‘normal’ 1.6 litre engine). Loads of room inside for a wee car, very comfy, easy to repair at pretty much any garage. Highly recommended :slight_smile:

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#205

Picked up my new ride. Niceeeee

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#206

Don’t go over any speeds bumps quick in that

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#207

Nice. Fancy an A6 for my next car in a few years. Had never been a fan of Audis, but really like my Q2 - despite it being a complete grandad car - it’s so comfortable and nice to drive.

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Ah yes. I feel complete again

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