WDB
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Post by WDB on Sept 25, 2017 19:32:15 GMT
Tried an S90 but it didn't make me think, wow, must try the estate as soon as I can! Good as it looks from some angles, and generous as it is in the back seat, I can't get excited about it. It's very expensive for a four-cylinder diesel with tug-prone front wheel drive, and I didn't like the looking-out-from-a-skip driving feel.
If I can find a reasonably suitable CLS350d reasonably soon, I think I need to scratch that itch. It won't be cheap but it won't be ruinous either. There'll always be a 5 Touring in a year or two if I find it doesn't work for us. And I'm the meantime my BMW salesman can get over his disappointment by trying to sell me an i3.
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Post by Humph on Sept 25, 2017 21:28:44 GMT
In truth, anything that can efficiently, reliably and comfortably get me and my stuff to work, and my family/friends/bikes to a suitably remote hill at the weekends would do for me now. I used to be very fussy indeed about cars, but less so now. Don't get me wrong, I still love them, and indeed appreciate good ones, at any level of how you care to measure that, but I'm increasingly much more interested in what they actually do for me now, rather than how good they look. Not to say I don't like a pretty car of course, but it's more about how well they get me, and the things or people I want with me, to somewhere I, or we, want to be.
My current car does all the above more than well enough for my liking, albeit somewhat breathlessly on occasion. However, I can hardly take it to task for that, given how wheezy I can sometimes get on a steep climb as the years advance !
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Post by WDB on Sept 25, 2017 22:18:39 GMT
The task performed is important, but so is the manner of its performance. (If only that would scan, there might be a song in it.)
If the car's job is to get you and your stuff to somewhere, fit to work or to enjoy yourself when you get there, then intangible qualities of bien être do come into the reckoning, for me at least. Our Toyota Verso was an example of the converse: it got us there, but we were always glad to arrive because it didn't make the journey itself much of a pleasure. The E220 has been much better in that respect, and was certainly the best thing we could afford at the time. Now we have the opportunity to go one step smoother - or perhaps to add a dose of driving pleasure to the space and smoothness we have, and either candidate car would do that - so it's just a question of which does the intangibles better.
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