Yesterday, Renault gave me a 1.2 Fiesta (61 plate) courteously car.
I immediately thought "Well, if that isn't admitting defeat - what is?".
Shortly after, it took me the best part of two minutes to realise how much I missed my Clio and that this Fiesta was like steering a ship powered by an AA battery.
On my way home, a large 50mph roundabout felt like it was testing the limits of the Fiestas stability at 40mph - an island I can easily do 70 over in the Clio.
HOWEVER! Despite the slowest 0-60 ever, it put a massive grin on my chops to thrash it around constantly at its limit.
So, to an extent, James May was right on last week's Top Gear: Driving this Fiesta on the edge of its ability is a good laugh as it's so easy! But, with that said, although it's fun to rape the 75 BHP beast
rofl, it's just not the same as the Clio because it lacks the OOFFFFTTT factor of a low, sharp and quick car like my beloved Clio.
Moving on...
Our line-up of cars at work is A 2003 Type R, a 2009 Type R, a 2010 TT RS and a 2006 911 and I never let my GF take me anywhere in her Purple Flowered-Up Nissan Micra so it came as a shock when I experienced something else - something unheard of - something... Weird?...
Someone told me it was comfort? Sounds preposterous to me - never heard of it. All I knew was that speed bumps at 30MPH were a good lol.
So, in all honesty, it made me think that I should get a second car for regular weekday driving.
The only problem being, I never felt like I was "driving" the Fiesta. It's effortless - you just float to and from your location in silence.
And it was then that I decided that this "comfort" stuff was for women and kids.
And as a result (and in a nutshell), the last 24 hours made me realise just how awesome my Clio is and how I miss it so bad already!
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For anyone wondering:
My car is off the road because the handbrake kept sticking on in the low temperatures last week and eventually the cable gave up. I took it into the Renault and they said it wasn't covered by the warranty and I had to pay for it. I said that was stupid, asked what the warranty was for and promptly threaded to call Renault UK to which their immediate reaction was to offer to pay two thirds of the cost for the parts and labour.
The car was due out Yesterday, but they ordered the wrong cable and said the car was in bits and I was better off having a courteously car for the next five days until the new cable arrives.
Since then, I've realised that it's not financially logical to give me a hire car for five days as it will only take a mechanic one hours labour to reassemble the car. So, I am guessing they've broken the car in some way and aren't telling me...
I immediately thought "Well, if that isn't admitting defeat - what is?".
Shortly after, it took me the best part of two minutes to realise how much I missed my Clio and that this Fiesta was like steering a ship powered by an AA battery.
On my way home, a large 50mph roundabout felt like it was testing the limits of the Fiestas stability at 40mph - an island I can easily do 70 over in the Clio.
HOWEVER! Despite the slowest 0-60 ever, it put a massive grin on my chops to thrash it around constantly at its limit.
So, to an extent, James May was right on last week's Top Gear: Driving this Fiesta on the edge of its ability is a good laugh as it's so easy! But, with that said, although it's fun to rape the 75 BHP beast
rofl, it's just not the same as the Clio because it lacks the OOFFFFTTT factor of a low, sharp and quick car like my beloved Clio.Moving on...
Our line-up of cars at work is A 2003 Type R, a 2009 Type R, a 2010 TT RS and a 2006 911 and I never let my GF take me anywhere in her Purple Flowered-Up Nissan Micra so it came as a shock when I experienced something else - something unheard of - something... Weird?...
Someone told me it was comfort? Sounds preposterous to me - never heard of it. All I knew was that speed bumps at 30MPH were a good lol.
So, in all honesty, it made me think that I should get a second car for regular weekday driving.
The only problem being, I never felt like I was "driving" the Fiesta. It's effortless - you just float to and from your location in silence.
And it was then that I decided that this "comfort" stuff was for women and kids.
And as a result (and in a nutshell), the last 24 hours made me realise just how awesome my Clio is and how I miss it so bad already!
--
For anyone wondering:
My car is off the road because the handbrake kept sticking on in the low temperatures last week and eventually the cable gave up. I took it into the Renault and they said it wasn't covered by the warranty and I had to pay for it. I said that was stupid, asked what the warranty was for and promptly threaded to call Renault UK to which their immediate reaction was to offer to pay two thirds of the cost for the parts and labour.
The car was due out Yesterday, but they ordered the wrong cable and said the car was in bits and I was better off having a courteously car for the next five days until the new cable arrives.
Since then, I've realised that it's not financially logical to give me a hire car for five days as it will only take a mechanic one hours labour to reassemble the car. So, I am guessing they've broken the car in some way and aren't telling me...
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