. She came to me last Saturday and said what about this one and proceeded to show me a Bursting Blue R Design Pro. I had said if she really hated it then I would take the hit on trade in and swap it, but if we did then I'm going for a full fat T5 Recharge with all the trimmings.
This car was such a beast, slightly higher than average mileage and a slight ding in the front wheel that they have fixed.
We went and test drove it, she parked it a bunch of times and proclaimed the 360 cam bloody marvellous.
I did about 50 miles playing with stuff ( pilot assist) and thought that will do. They gave us a good trade in on our last one only lost 2.5k (sucks but happy wife happy life and all that) we buy any cars offer was 6k short
. Anyhow deal done 2 years warranty and service. Collected it yesterday.
The only very slight thing is I personally prefer the red but its pretty much her car and she really liked the bursting blue.
Once the weather is better and I can properly clean clay bar and wax it, it will look great.
I have to say it is incredible to drive, the 7 speed dct is so much better than the 8 speed TC box for me.
Very smooth and being the ev when parking it will creap very slowly, much more controlled than the TC box that was always fighting the brakes when creeping forward.
Then we come to what happens when you put your foot down
very nice indeed. This is without a doubt the nicest car I have owned.
Just for fun we took a drive out towards Cirencester from the Banbury area. In total did 80 miles we had 13 ev range showing when we left, programmed the satnav and ser off. Left in the default hybrid mode and just drove.
Averaged 56.2 mpg, sure that's got some EV but still that's not bad at all.
The battery said no range on the way back so 40 miles but still great mpg.
I am one happy man (sure I would prefer it red but meh)
Was a stupid amount of money for a nearly 3 year old car but I don't care.
Will post more pics when I get to properly clean it.
