Advantages: It's a great little city/town/country car. Its fabulously economic. Disadvantages: No power steering on this particular model.
for what I would get next, couldn't find anything that was quite what I wanted. But one evening I picked up the local paper one night and spied something that looked just right.
Pedro Mark 2. It was a 1999 1.0 purple Polo, almost identical to the one I lost. Another reliable little car hopefully, my last one had done 345,000 miles when it was finally put to rest! Remarkable! This one seemed better somehow, it was cleaner than my first one which had come to earn the nickname of the "Shedlo" because of the state of it. Rusty holes had come into contact with the inevitable Scottish rain, making them look like bleeding bullet wounds! It was a much newer one with better equipment AND it had alloys! Lovely.
Any Polo owner will know, you get in and you've fallen in love. They really are great little cars. My friends have 3 or 4 year old ...
Advantages: Strong, Sturdy Car & Little Big Car Feel Disadvantages: None as Yet
**The Story**
I have recently invested in a S Reg 1999 VW Polo 1.0litre. I decided on Volkswagen after Id had a lot of trouble with my first car a Peugeot 106, eeevil things wont go there.
Ive always heard that Volkswagens were reliable well built cars though I'd never really taken much notice of them. I needed a small car as Im only 18 and obviouslly petrol prices and more importantly Insurance premiums are a major influence...(If you and not mommy & daddy are paying to keep your car on the road) I looked at a range of Volkswagens and decided on the Polo. I had a look at a range of different mark Polos and decided on the Mk4. Not too dated like earlier mk's and containing more modern equipment too.
I looked around and luckily almost immediately spotted a little Racing Green fellow on Autotrader. It was S Reg and had just 37 ...
Advantages: Economical, easy parking, nippy and reliable car Disadvantages: street cred, but lets not be vain
My Mum's car, but she lets me use it from time to time - especially when I pester her.
It is "P" Reg and bought 3 years ago from a main dealer who had traded the car in with one of its customers. Full service history provided and one careful owner. The car is automatic 1.0 litre model in the classic red by Nissan, a Micra Auto. Test drove and found the automatic a little strange not like traditional autos. The difference being that other autos when stopped and in drive will edge forward (particularly useful on a hill start), the Micra Auto does not edge forward in fact it behaves like a manual trasmission and will roll back on an incline. Why?
CVT - Continuous Variable Transmission, a Nissan feature which uses a tapered shaft to drive the car and elimintes the judder as a normal automatic shifts through its gears. The CVT ...
