Mother-in-laws MX5

[Seanl]

I can't understand why she'd chop it in for an RCZ, its a turd French car with plastic body panels.
Granted, I can see the appeal with regard to styling, but aside from the fact it has airbags, its still a small 2 seater and will ruin your day if in an impact. 

[Booth11]

I can't understand why she'd chop it in for an RCZ, its a turd French car with plastic body panels.
Granted, I can see the appeal with regard to styling, but aside from the fact it has airbags, its still a small 2 seater and will ruin your day if in an impact. 

I cannot see the appeal regards the styling.  Isn't this the car unaffectionately known as the Aldi TT!

Agree it doesn't seem like it would afford much more protection than the MX5 if the worse should happen.  Surely there's something better out there that will offer balance of solidity and styling.  How about a used real TT?

[Waspy]

It's not about how safe you ACTUALLY are, it's about how safe you FEEL. The RCZ in her opinion feels more sturdy, and as such safer. Fair game.

[Booth11]

It's not about how safe you ACTUALLY are, it's about how safe you FEEL. The RCZ in her opinion feels more sturdy, and as such safer. Fair game.

It's a false sense of security though.  But I get your point, if she 'feels' safer (even if she isn't) then she'll most likely feel more confident.  If it were me though, I'd still be aiming for something that would address both the ACTUAL safety and the FEELING safer.

[dubber36]

I don't like the Peugeot either but she seems to for whatever reason.

There will always be French car slagging on a VAG forum, but having owned a 307 for 7 years. It actually wasn't a bad car. The only thing that failed was a the DMF under warranty and a blocked FAP (DPF) when it had done 70,000 miles. It's not as if those faults are unheard of in VAG circles. Plastic panels aside, I'm pretty sure it would still stand up in an accident as well as most other cars too.

This makes me sound like I like them, but I only bought the 307 because I couldn't afford an similar spec Golf at the time, and the reason I had it so long is that I'm too tight to suffer the depreciation, so made sure I got my monies worth out of it.

[charlie]

I drove lots of Peugeot and sh!treon cars through my job and we had a ds3 as a company car for over a year and to be fair they aren't that bad. I'm sure she will be safe in the RCZ 

[Booth11]

I had a peugeot 206 GTI for three years, and whilst not the most robust vehicle, it was fun to drive and  very 'chuckable', especially round corners (perhaps a little too chuckable at times).  When you really pushed on the striaght though there was an expectation it might just lift off at the rear   

It was the peugeot customer service that put me right off having another  Then I crossed over to Golf gti's and the rest is history   

Anyway, I hope she builds her confidence back up and enjoys her new car.

[MAW73]

A new Polo GTI? Priced one up on Orange Wheels the other day (5 door, DSG, Sat Nav, Parking Sensors, Standard Interior) and the discount was £3.5k from memory. So the worked out to around 20k after discount.

[dubber36]

She's got her heart set on the French thing now and for less than half that money. For a 'fun' car, I think she'd find the Polo a bit ordinary.

[Seanl]

I had a 307 too.  1.6 Rapier, and it was genuinely the worst car I've ever owned, and I've owned a few bad cars!  I had it at 5 years old, and the heater stopped working, then randomly just came on a month later, alternator failed, had to replace the lambda, and had another random electrical fault that would make it go into limp mode for about a minute, then clear itself.  It wouldn't save DTCs either so despite 3 trips to the dealership, no faults were logged.  Considering I had enough and chopped it in after 6 months, I think it tells you something that I had so many problems!  Car only had 46k on the clock too and bodywork was in good condition, so I don't think it had a hard life previously.   Incidentally, it was my mk5 Golf GT TDI I chopped it in for!