HC, you urged me twice to try the 2.0. On reflection I decided you were right, and followed your suggestion, and I prefer the nature of the 1.5.
Now you have twice suggested that I should get the 2.0 anyway. It's another very nice car, but the performance is not in another world. Neither is a fast car, or a slow one. I would happily have either given. But it really is bragging rights v. a slightly more perfect drive, to me.
"Living with [it] day to day" won't be a problem. The 1.5 doesn't need to be thrashed to get from A to B. It is a perfectly nice pootler at 2500-3500 rpm, in the lower half of the rev range, where it can make 50-70bhp, more than enough for going to the shops in a 975Kg car. At 70mph in 6th, it is doing 2850 rpm, in 5th 3600.
Of more concern to me at the moment is whether the car I have reserved is as "mint" as described. My experience of smart salesmen dealing with what they probably perceive to be a gullible old man makes me think it might not be, in which case I will find another or buy new.
Last edited by: Manatee on Thu 24 Aug 17 at 11:56
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