time to change the car

northernneil
northernneil Posts: 1,549
edited April 2010 in The bottom bracket
right, need to change my car now, having a 2.8l engined 4 wheel drive golf means I get knack all fuel return, its starting to creak now (130,000miles) and needs a full service, mot, tax, and the bonnet and roof spraying in the next month soooooo

having just driven a hire car upto scotland and I really like it ... and its a Kia !!!

its called a soul but it looks dead funky, drives fine, uses so little fuel its amazinf for me, obviously the performance is not as good but looking at reviews even Clarkson likes it.

Anyone had any experience of them ?

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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    No experience, just my g/f has ordered a Kia Cee'd Stationwagon, and I was very impressed with the design and build quality, it looks good (as good as the premium brands if you can just ignore the badge) and takes bikes in the back! And who can argue with the 7 year warranty? I gather the 1.6 CRDi diesels are the better choice. I think they are an up and coming brand.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    alfablue wrote:
    No experience, just my g/f has ordered a Kia Cee'd Stationwagon, and I was very impressed with the design and build quality, it looks good (as good as the premium brands if you can just ignore the badge) and takes bikes in the back! And who can argue with the 7 year warranty? I gather the 1.6 CRDi diesels are the better choice. I think they are an up and coming brand.

    Our lass drives a Rio and I cant fault that... Stereo sounds great too
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    alfablue wrote:
    No experience, just my g/f has ordered a Kia Cee'd Stationwagon, and I was very impressed with the design and build quality, it looks good (as good as the premium brands if you can just ignore the badge) and takes bikes in the back! And who can argue with the 7 year warranty? I gather the 1.6 CRDi diesels are the better choice. I think they are an up and coming brand.

    Our lass drives a Rio and I cant fault that... Stereo sounds great too

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  • garrynolan
    garrynolan Posts: 560
    The Soul has great reviews. Would also try the new Skoda Yeti - assuming you're not a badge snob. I have a Citroen C4 Grand Picasso 1.6 HDi. Best car I've owned. Bigger than the others but easy to drive. Worth a look?
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  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    Been thinking about the Skoda Yeti myself, purely for the bike carrying capability of course! The build quality on these are fab now, being VW linked and everything.....
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    My Skoda Octavia is in fact a 4X4 Golf under the skin, it's diesel so it does 40-50mpg, but poky enough to do 0-60 in 18 seconds - towing a 1.5 ton caravan...
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    bompington wrote:
    My Skoda Octavia is in fact a 4X4 Golf under the skin, it's diesel so it does 40-50mpg, but poky enough to do 0-60 in 18 seconds - towing a 1.5 ton caravan...

    which 4x4 octavia is it ? I didnt think they did a 4 x 4 one and having driven a 4 wheel drive (golf) I would miss the planted feel you get
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    after seven faultless years i have just changed my skoda felica estate for a kia rio,its early days but the kia seems spot on,im hard as nails and have a very large penis.
  • Foucault
    Foucault Posts: 104
    If you can find a copy of last week's Autocar (7 April), they have a final report on the Kia Soul 2 they've had on long term test. On the whole they seem to quite like it apart from the petrol fuel economy not being great and reckon the diesel is much better albiet more expensive to buy.
  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    How about a couple of shiny bikes and a trailor?
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    northernneil wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    My Skoda Octavia is in fact a 4X4 Golf under the skin, it's diesel so it does 40-50mpg, but poky enough to do 0-60 in 18 seconds - towing a 1.5 ton caravan...

    which 4x4 octavia is it ? I didnt think they did a 4 x 4 one and having driven a 4 wheel drive (golf) I would miss the planted feel you get
    2.0 TDI (140bhp) - I think you can still get the cheaper & slower 1.9 4X4, and there's the Scout, which is just the 2.0 with a more jacked up body & chunky looking plastic bits. A 4X4 with the 170bhp diesel would be nice but I don't think they do one.
    All the Octavia 4X4s are slightly jacked up (30mm or so) with estate car type suspension, so you're not going to get GTI handling, but you can sure scare yourself on a slippery corner and still live.

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