I think he was alluding(sp) to the fact that the Pug was more fun but the Golf easier to live with (hence the 5 door comment). Oversteer is downright dangerous on the public roads anyhow, fine if you're on a track and know how to drive properly, which I don't.
Well, you can see from my other posts that I'm not a boy racer, and I'm far keener on "easy to live with" than "fun". That was part of the reason for getting rid of the XR2 - it was a little bit
too much "fun", and it honestly wasn't the right image. The Peugeot is nothing like that. It looks like any normal car. It's so easy to live with that it's practically having to be prised from my cold dead hands right now. Apart from the oversteer (which didn't seem to be an issue for Clarkson), and the 5-door option, there wasn't a single thing mentioned about the Mk IV that wasn't equally true for the Peugeot. You can get half of Ikea in it. I've moved house twice with it, and a more willing and capacious workhorse I simply couldn't have asked for. (I'm actually mildly concerned that the Mk VI might not be quite so big in its load capacity - I know it will take the wheelchair but I'm taking the bicycle on trust....)
I wasn't aware of the oversteer thing, because it's never done it to me. Probably because I don't drive round corners like that. Just as well, really! (It did spin off the road once when I hit what I can only assume was black ice on a roundabout, fortunately coming to rest on a patch of grass upright and without hitting anything, but I don't know that any other car would have handled that one any better.) In a way, it was probably more suited to me, wanting the power for overtaking on the straight and fast travel on clear roads, rather than someone into mad cornering.
Now, should I give mad cornering a try when I get the Mk VI?
Stop getting misty eyed about 306s Morag, face up to it, you've consigned the poor thing to the crusher...... 
(only kidding)
Oh, don't go on about it.
I know this is the right time to change, because it's simply not worth spending any more money on it, and do I really want to go on another year with no aircon, and a wonky passenger seat, and a gearbox slipping out of third, and a sunroof letting in a bit, and a scratch on one wing? And nobody is going to give me £2,000 for it in another year. But it's still running like an absolute cracker, starts first turn of the key, leaves most other things standing....
The fact that the Mk VI is so totally and comprehensively
gorgeous is the only thing reconciling me to this!
Rolfe.
