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You could do a lot worse than a Skoda Octavia. Even without the seats down the boot is massive. Very comfortable, reliable and goes like the clappers. I love it.

 

Interesting that VW was owned by the UK after the war and produced vehicles for the British army by the thousand but then given away to German owners as we already had a car industry and decided we did not need another, Another good decision

 

I’ll set the record straight. Ford cars are crap ! When you get a model of a car with a design fault and the new “improved” model with the same design fault that tells you a lot. Focus steering pump for one and fiesta front suspension for another. Two successive models carried the same component fault to the next gen model. Yes I was an engineer.

 

I have a Ford van and a Ford car. Nice enough to drive but the build quality is terrible. And they rust like an old skip.

 

Agree nothing wrong with the drive experience Roger in fact my focus was nearly as good as a golf. I made the wrong choice due , perhaps to unaffordability at the time. My comments are based around engineering qualities , materials etc are poor and designed to be life limited imho.

 

Car buying is quite fascinating. I often look at certain, quite popular, cars and think why would anyone want that? The truth is that we all make car buying decisions for a host of different reasons and one man's meat etc. I'm in the very fortunate position of being able to buy almost any car I liked if I wanted to, but I don't want to because I'm not really that interested and I couldn't justify to myself spending a fortune on a mere car. I only want to go from A to B in what's comfortable and functional. That's what the mondeo offered me which is why I stuck with it for so long. Now it's gone I haven't a clue what to buy.

 

And no body is going to car jack you .

Who'd drive a car like this ? it could do with a trip to Fordys place, 58 miles on the clock since March 2020 lockdown.

 

Had a Honda Legend that was superb and also a Nissan Maxima which was underrated but again superb, Funny to think that the premium gadgets on these cars now come as standard on a £12k car

 

Some of the shit mentioned on here couldn’t make it from Grimsby to Bradford.

 

My car , practical and economical . And i can get all my fishing gear in .

 

Bought a Civic Turbo Sport just before the 1st lockdown on a special offer still has less than 500 miles on the clock
It's my 3rd Civic wouldn't buy anything else other than a Honda

 

Plenty of them round here, horses that is!

 

Room for a giant chub as well.

 

I had a Mark 1 Focus for years. Fantastic car that never once let me down. It was still running well when I sold it for £400 at 15 years old. The only reason I got rid was to get a car with a bigger boot for transporting music gear. I've now got a Skoda Octavia, ie a VW Passat in a different skin, which is also an excellent car.

 

I had a volkwagen passat and a transporter for years, the quality between them and the transit and cmax i own now is completely different. Don't get me wrong the electric parking brake on the passat is one of the worst things i've ever seen on a car but everything else was way above the fords.

 

VW , Skoda and Seat and a posh version the Audi, all the same design specs. They just use slightly cheaper materials to shave costs in various models.

Our family, were very much brought up on Fords and mostly brand new ones at that. All serviced like clock work but when basic yet essential components that could never be classed as basic wear and tear components in a million years, fail it, gets beyond a joke. There will always be people like yourself who have a great experience of certain brands and entirely appropriate as well. Two totally different experiences of the same brand.

 

Yes, fair enough, but I can only speak of my personal experience. When it's not a 'small van' the mondeo is a lovely saloon car for me. And I've never had any mechanical problem at all over 23 years. Maybe I've just been lucky.

 

My dad still has a mk1 focus, that was when Ford did design some nice cars. The design was fresh and not like anything else, i still enjoy driving it now. The focus after the mark 1 were as bland as any car ever designed.

 

Had Escorts and Sierras for a good few years and then about 20 years ago discovered Suzuki Vitaras, real workhorses (which I needed at the time) and super reliable in snow, did everything I asked of it and that's where I am today, not looking forward to the green revolution coming up at all though...

 

I looked around for a new car and over the years have had most popular brands ( Ford Vauxhall VW Suzuki Audi BMW and a Merc but this time took a test drive and good look at a Dacia Stepway and was astounded at the technology and driving experience The build quality is excellent with great MPG, At around £12k brand new apart from the bias against the name I cannot understand why anyone would pay more, ( Love the reversing camera and front and rear sensors and colour screen with built in Sat Nav and hands free phone built in via Bluetooth and great Air Con plus hill start assist, The new one has Autonomous emergency breaking, keyless ignition, Multi view cameras with blind spot monitoring and electronic hand break with a 8 inch colour screen with no increase in price