Another company car challenge
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Local Hero
There's a A3 2.0 TDI 184 Sport Quattro S tronic on the list but she doesn't want another A3 or automatic, no manual A3 Quattro is listed.
So until she changes her mind (again…) its down to a Audi Q3 2.0 TDI 150ps Quattro SE or a Mini Countryman Cooper ALL4 either 1.6D or 2.0D.
Q3 is new-ish face lifted model but is basically a fat A3 on stilts and looks like it.
The Mini is getting on a bit and replaced next year, Its so fulgly that its good looking like some girls are.
Or take the £ and run her own nearly new Focus/Astra and pocket @£5-7K at the end of 3 years.
Thoughts and suggestions welcome.
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Local Hero
The streetka has gone now so will definitely get another set if winter tyres later in the winter for one of our other cars.
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2001 Zafira 1.8
2000 Mk4 Cabriolet Avantgarde (bought for the mrs)
2001 Zafira 1.8
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Living in Austria, it's mandatory to have winter tyres anyway but we do know a little about how to handle a car on snow.
Not as much as the Swedes do though!
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Local Hero
Nowadays heavy modern cars with fat tyres with tread that is essentially 3 or 4 concentric groves are utterly useless in snow. She had a MK6 Golf and it wouldn't even move forward on the flat in about 1 inch of snow. RWD BMW and Mercs would be unusable for weeks on end in the last few winters.
We live on an estate that has a couple of slight inclines before you get to the main road. The council don't grit the estate and won't even provide salt bins next to the slopes (I've asked). A-holes. So a 4x4 with just enough extra traction seems a good compromise, not planning on setting out whens its 3ft deep.
Would have to pay ourselves for any options like extra wheels/tyres so that's a non starter really.
The only non Diesel on the list is a CT 200h but discounted that as carting a ton of batteries/electric motors around doesn't seem like a good idea for fuel economy, and she's off automatics for some reason.
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Old Timer
My work hack runs winter tyres all year round and that's fwd with a heavy load in the back so very little weight over the front again with no trouble.
I have a spare set of winter socks which are very very good, I couldn't get traction out of an estate so put them on and pulled out like it was a summers days. They must be removed when you get to Tarmac of they fall to bits. They take seconds to fit and remove, throw them in the boot for when they are needed.
I would suggest the socks as a solution and get the car she wants because for the few times it snows here it's not really that bad.
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Have them on our 4x4.
They grip when dry, wet, ice and snow.
Very quite and last forever.
We did 68,000 Km's on one set and only had to change them because the outer wall on one was showing signs of deterioration.
I do look after tyres, that set however could have gone another 10-15k but I thought best to change now rather than regret later!
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Local Hero
They do work brilliantly when in though, last winter a freind couldn't get her BMW off her drive, no amount of pushing would work and the car had begun to bog down through the gravel, went along and put the socks on and it moved off with ease.
Back on to your question over the company car, the CT200h I have is an acquired taste, I love it and get real world 52mpg, previous manual diesels weren't much better. If she hates autos then the CVT box in the Lexus IS its only poor feature very un-involving.
The friend who has the BMW is just changing h co car at moment and I am helping her choose, she has a limit around £35k, but what really is impressing at the moment is the Audi A3 saloon, well under allowance, looks brilliant -much better than the A4, and can't see why they called it the A3 as it seems to be in a different class to the hatch, good though that is.
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Local Hero
Going to spend the morning looking at a few different dealerships but she seems to have set her heart on a Countryman.
Not considered A3 saloons but no quattros listed. Think there will be a new list to choose from in April so it might all change again.
There are a few VW Tiguans listed but the only 4x4 is a poverty spec. Quite like the look of them compared to the Q3, they do atleast look a bit ruffty-tuffy old school 4x4
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1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
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My trusty old P38 range rover hasn't got stuck once despite the best Scotland can throw at it and that's on 18s with rubbish tires. You just have to have a gentle touch and let the drive train do the work, not your right foot!
That said, my works van, a VW transporter 4 motion on winter tires though is a totally different animal! You'd have to drive like a grade A pudding to get it out of shape, it's breath taking how good it is in the snow!
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Local Hero
A local dealer had a 9,000mile used model with lots of options with a big discount on new which was very tempting, but issues with having another couple of months lease on current car made it awkward to commit.
1983 Mars Red 1.8 Golf GTI
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
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Local Hero
She loves it and esp the high tech stuff which apparently is based on the BMW iDrive so most things are accessed via a twiddly knob.
Think I'd have gone for the newer Q3 but every time I go out I see loads of those in silver or black. When was the last time you saw a brown mini?
Anyhow here it is in all its 70s-tastic brown glory;
1983 Mars Red 1.8 Golf GTI
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
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