My friend has been given her company car list and has to make a choice by next week. She is 60 and has no real interest in cars as such but does do around 20000 miles a year covering the whole of Scotland.
She currently has a top of the range Qashqai Tekna hire car as her company was recently taken over and she was given this meantime. And the Qashqai has lots of toys!
Her choices are
Toyota Corolla Sporting (excluded straight away for being an estate)
Toyota CH-R - excluded for being ugly
Audi A3 Sportback 30 TFSI Technik SE
VW Golf 1.5TSi Style
Kia Niro 1.6 GDi Hybrid 2
Toyota Corolla 1.8 VVT Hybrid Excel
So I am now trying to prepare a spreadsheet for her with all the specs, toys etc but she is going to have to pick a car without seeing one in flesh, driving it and these are including Hybrid cars which are automatics (one CVT) without ever having driven an auto!
No idea what build times are at these times or when the fleet manager would actually be able to submit an order! Can't help but think it would be better to wait until she had at least sat in one of the cars to decide!
Anyway, reversing camera and parking sensors seem to be a priority so far as is in built satnav - I have tried explaining the benefits of Apple Play means you dont need sat nav but not sure I explained it well! She likes the high up sitting position of Qashqai so is attracted to the Niro, but some reviews of Niro say that the seating position is actually quite low for an "SUV". I had kind of excluded the Golf as I assumed it wouldnt come with many toys but this is the new Golf 8 and seems to come quite well loaded.
Oh well, time to get the spreadsheet set up - I hope the manufacturer websites are well laid out with clear list of the specifications!
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