Help with a change of car.

There's more headroom in a Citroen 2CV/HY Van combination

 

Shiney.....although the 2CV is a car that goes forever, I can't see us going down this road (excuse the pun), with such a small engine I don't think it will make the climb up to the mountain road very easily/quickly and would probably be quicker for Mr. S to walk!

 

I have no experience of the 2CV, but in general terms a small engine doesn't automatically mean the car is bad on the hills. Remember the old Skodas? The ones that all the jokes are about? They were pants. They were slow and noisy among other things. But, they were slow and noisy because the small, underpowered engine was coupled to a very low ratio gearbox. It meant they didn't really bat an eyelid and steep inclines. Its what they were built for.

In another example, my dad once had one of the original Fiat 500s. In those days, unlike in the new version, the '500' came from the fact that it had a 500cc engine. Flat out that car could do about 50 or 60mph (with the wind behind it on a perfect road), but it climbed up Saltburn bank (1:4 at points, with 2 sharp bends preventing any possibility of a run-up) with my dad driving and enough of us as passengers so that we were packed in like sardines. Ok, so one of the drive shafts went near the top causing us to roll back down backwards some of the way before my dad managed to bring it back under control, but the engine was happy enough.

 

Other half has decided today that the track is going to wreck his car, so guess what we'll be doing at the weekend.

 

I'm not sure how your car tax works over there now FC, but here we pay on engine size and emissions, that combined with insurance on a bigger car it won't pay us to have anything more than a 1.5 engine. We sold our 2.0 Megane last year as we couldn't afford the running cost, tax, insurance and petrol along with a second car.

 

I ain't got a clue either. All I know is that I bought a diesel Smart car the other day and the road tax costs exactly £0.00!!! I reckon that it's doing close to 80mpg too!

 

Getting in there first and smashing it up yourselves?

 

My son had a Smart car for about eighteen months Longk but sold it very quickly when he found out the price of the tyres!

 

They're not that bad - £275'ish a set. Just put four tyres on a Bentley at just under £1500!

 

Yes but when you consider the size of the tyres and the car for that matter I think it's a rip off in comparison to other cars. £1500!

 

Front brake discs and pads for the same car = £10000 (that's NOT a typo)!!!

 

Now you're scaring me! Don't think I'll be buying a Bentley somehow.