RR Evoque  Is this where I put the car details and a bit about myself ?........

Joking apart - it's grown on me

Ewock overpriced and to small.
My brother who can afford whatever he wants tried an ewock back to back with a sportage and bought the kia. Mine was a blue one!

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So Andy, I must have missed it but you say you've got a car. What is it? 2006 4.2 SC
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It was in reply to Nicktdv8 saying get a car instead of a 4x4 if downsizing. I have a car (MGTF) for the daily commute the 4x4 is the family car, I have had a few issues with my FF so was looking at alternatives I have had a lot of landrovers but everyone has been unreliable so my loyalty been stretched a bit thin, especially after last summer.
So I was looking for an alternative mid-sized 4x4. freelander is first option but spending time on their forum tells me things arn't much better. No point in downsizing to a sport or disco as more unreliable than a FF and not much fuel savings if any. Nissan,ford,skoda etc all to small for my family and requirements, freelander to small to but would have kept me in a Landrover. Hence the Santa fe almost by default. The big but is after rejecting my last Freelander I impulse bought a Tucson four years andd 80K trouble free miles and the couple of very minor issues I had covered under warranty no questions. yes no soul but no trouble and very good in the snow. Mine was a blue one!

Andy3681 wrote:

It was in reply to Nicktdv8 saying get a car instead of a 4x4 if downsizing.

Ahhh ok, I thought you had found something. I see what you mean now!

I can understand your concern over another LR product although I suspect the news ones are relatively trouble free, at a price - My famous last words!

OK, how about................

- new X3 (has a great review in What Car? Beats the Disco Sport
- X5 (not sure about these, I do quite like the look of them but there are 2 x white ones and 3 x black ones on the school run, I see them every morning, all the same age / spec etc. etc. Surely if you are paying £40k+ you want something with a bit of individuality! That to me is the same annoyance that it would be to my wife turning up at a do and someone else is wearing the same dress!)
- New Santa Fe - Really looks the part, 5 year warranty, fantastic reliability, quite rare which helps residual values and nice to have something a bit different.
- New X Trail - Maybe a bit "Euro"ish but will no doubt be reliable.
- XC60 - Quite rare, those that have them love them.
- XC90 - Not sure about these, heard some real horror stories. I also think you sit too low for a 4x4.

And finally................a Touareg? A colleague has just handed his back, a 3.0 Sport Auto Bluemotion. He has it for exactly 3 years and 140k miles which included much tin tent towing at the weekends - It never missed a beat! 2006 4.2 SC
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Of those it would have to be a Touareg.

The XC60 is of course lower than than the XC90....

+1

I like the Touareg - although getting slightly long in the tooth. I think VW's are generally good news

A friend has the previous Santa Fe and is just waiting for the new reg to swop to the new one. He thought the one he had was good and the new one an improvement on that.
However I have seen comments that Hyundai are artificially hiking the residuals to help sales. TBH £30 k for a Hydundai no sorry just can't Mine was a blue one!

Agree, there is no way on this earth I'd spend that sort of money on a Hyundai

Toerag isnt a downsize.....I really like it and it has low range which appeals to me.

What about a Subaru....they have a decent height for driver and are very well made

Can we all stop talking about new cars....  Is this where I put the car details and a bit about myself ?........

I had an early Kia Sorento 2.5D Auto with all the extras fro nearly five years and at the time had to pay a premium over new for an ex demo. I ran it for over 100K and apart from needing two engines and two turbos in three failures around the 30K mark never had a sinificant fault. The engines/turbos were all replaced under warranty but it did take a few months to sort out. I got the Kia as at the time I was doing a reasonable mileage and the warranty was important to me and the Sorento was one of the few proper 4x4s at the time that I could afford with a warranty and was also about the biggest. I only ever used road tyres but it was great in in the snow driving up lanes that kids had been sledging down. I even went on a few off road days in old quarries and never once got stuck. Looking bacck part of me wishes I had kept it rather than traded for the Nissan Pathfinder that replaced it. There is a difference between knowing your sh!t and knowing you're sh!t

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