Have you actually driven one of these cars?
Back in 2010 we were looking for a replacement for our 1.6 TDCi Focus C-Max, the Altea 1.6 TDi appeared all the boxes and our old Golf TDI 90 PS had been a brilliant car. So off we went on a test drive and what a pile off poo. The car itself was nice enough but the 105 PS engine would not pull the skin off a rice pudding, the 110PS in our Focus felt like it had double the power and that was no rocket ship.
Even if the engine did not have the alleged issues based on our test drive I could not recommend the car, it was so slow to accelerate it felt dangerous to me. The 2 litre would probably be fine but it was above our budget at the time.
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