12-09-2011, 11:44pm
So I had a good nosy round the dealership at the weekend and came away with a good feeling about the car.
Some thoughts though:
A few pieces of cheap trim let the interior down in my view - the black shiny cup holder slider was awfully flimsy and the back of the seats string magazine holder was not worthy of a car a quarter of its price - why oh why do they do this? it would have cost them no more than a couple of quid to source better components.
I am getting a dynamic and I am relieved at this as the 3 prestige leather seats that I saw were very poorly made and the leather sagged and rippled in all the ones I examined.
All the cars but one were fitted with conti cross contact and this has zero side wall protection for the alloys. I can envisage a lot of kerbed alloy forum posts very soon!
There was one petrol turbo model that had dunlops (or michellins? one of the two! I forget!) on its 20" and these had excellent protection for the alloys - a good half inch of it - I wonder how we go about getting these fitted as standard!
Some thoughts though:
A few pieces of cheap trim let the interior down in my view - the black shiny cup holder slider was awfully flimsy and the back of the seats string magazine holder was not worthy of a car a quarter of its price - why oh why do they do this? it would have cost them no more than a couple of quid to source better components.
I am getting a dynamic and I am relieved at this as the 3 prestige leather seats that I saw were very poorly made and the leather sagged and rippled in all the ones I examined.
All the cars but one were fitted with conti cross contact and this has zero side wall protection for the alloys. I can envisage a lot of kerbed alloy forum posts very soon!
There was one petrol turbo model that had dunlops (or michellins? one of the two! I forget!) on its 20" and these had excellent protection for the alloys - a good half inch of it - I wonder how we go about getting these fitted as standard!