martdy wrote:By the way the mirror down works great!
Well I printed out the roccopedia version that I'd collated together from previous answers and tried it in the car park.
Despite what the manual also says, in the convenience menu on the MFD I don't have Mirror Down as an option. So either it's not connected to the folding mirrors or it's something to do with build date. Maybe it was added after a certain time. I'm not 100% sure when mine was built though. It was originally supposed to be week 9 but it actually got built somewhere around Xmas I think. So that's a bit annoying. I was looking forward to having that.
rehmondo wrote:How is it?
Superb but very very different. Maybe because I'm coming from such an old car but the refinement and ride are a huge leap. It feels a much more substantial car.
rehmondo wrote:Worth the wait?
Oh yeah
rehmondo wrote:Made the right choice?
Oh yeah
Nothing else really grabbed my while my ISA was accruing. The only possibility would have been if Ford had made the Fiesta RS they did as a concept in about 2005. But they didn't so I kept saving and waited for something else. I just wanted something a little bigger, a little more practical and a little faster.
rehmondo wrote:What do you like/dislike?
I like the ride and the ease of driving. It's not such a noisy buzzbox as the Puma. A much more grown up car. The performance, which I've only given a couple of stabs at, it amazing. Dislikes? Erm... it's slightly claustrophobic but I can live with that. The view out the back is shocking and the doors are huge but that's about it. At low revs it's a little sluggish for the first second or so until the revs and turbo catch up but not having driven a turbo before I guess that's something you get used to.
rehmondo wrote:How are you finding the DSG? - ever going back to a manual?
I think the jury is still out on that one.
It's an amazing 'box. It's so easy to drive but at the moment I'm only in D while I just get used to the rest of it. But if you put your foot down it knows what you're doing, drops a couple of cogs and you're off. That's superb. You don't have to think about what gear you want for what you want to do. It's all done by your right foot. I accidentally flicked the downshift leaver today coming off a roundabout and shot off
The downside is that you're a little detached from that feeling of a gearshift but then I've been doing that for 20 years so it's all a bit new still.
rehmondo wrote:Was the sales experience good for you?
Yeah. I had a good rapport with the dealer. He's been very straight about everything. Maybe slightly tight on some things like giving me a full tank of petrol and I'm sure some people get bunches of flowers etc but all I got was a VW 100meg USB stick, and that was only cos we were talking about music storage. What I really wanted was the 1/43rd model in blue but he wouldn't budge. They must only be a tenner cost price. It didn't seem much to ask. But, I got a follow up email today to tell me the iPod lead was in the post and asking if everything was ok so far.
