My wife and I were out looking at cars today and she took a liking to the Mitsubishi Colt (apart from the garish blue colour around the gear stick and centre console). So, I took a look at HJ's road test and I took fright at the comment about the handling quirk. If this could have serious consequences at speed, then I am afraid it isn't for me.
Anyone else have experience of this? Does the manufacturer know about it?
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Hopefully HJ will be along to confirm for sure, but reading between the lines of the roadtest, I would suggest that HJ was maybe doing close to a 3-figure speed when he had that happen.
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The car is capable of over 100 mph by quite a margin and there really shouldn't be a risk of it becoming unstable on a motorway at any speed, no matter what kind of driver is driving it. If it does, it is a bad design fault for a modern car.
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its only a basic car and cheap too, i personally think you are being very hard on it,its only a shopping trolley.
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\"a little man in a big world/\"
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its only a basic car and cheap too, i personally think you are being very hard on it,its only a shopping trolley. -- \"a little man in a big world/\"
It should still be capable of being driven safely within its performance parameters. Motorways are basically the safest roads around, after all, with no testing bends.
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Motorways are basically the safest roads around, afterall, with no testing bends.
I suggest you try the M4 around Newport - there are some quite tight bends on this stretch and it's 50mph limit as a result.
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I'm sure I remember HJ recommending the Colt on several occasions in his Telegraph column: if so he presumably doesn't think that there is any great danger.
Mrs M might also look at the Honda Jazz - it has the best use if space of any small car, although it vould do with a bigge engine and / or a diesel.
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Mrs M might also look at the Honda Jazz - it has the best use if space of any small car
I disagree, the front is cramped, the rear and boot may have more room than others but I find the driving postions uncomfortable, same applies to the Hyundai Getz. The Fiesta, Colt and Fabia are the best.
Don't see anything wrong with the Colt, but make sure your happy with the road/engine noise and the dash.
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We have looked at the Jazz already and we were impressed, but not entirely convinced that the seats were terribly comfortable. It is also very expensive. When we get in our C5, we realise what good seats it has and this is important to someone with back problems.
We will probably arrange a test drive in a Colt at some time.
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I went for what could only loosely be described as a test drive in 1.3 automatic this afternoon, at availablecar.com. I was only allowed to drive the car about 3 miles or so, mostly at 30 mph. Now I know I said I wasn't keen on the fact that it didn't have aircon but I am not likely to be persuaded to buy a car on the strength of that limited experience. Even though the car has done negligible mileage in the 5 months since it was first sold, it is still over £8K. I certainly wouldn't be paying over £10K for a new model.
I did like the transmission, which had a much smoother gear change, both in auto and manual mode, than the Sensodrive C3 that I tried a while back. The seats were also good but the ride, whilst fair, was somewhat choppy and it felt, well, like a small car, which it is, of course. I was much more impressed with the Jazz we tried out last year. The price puts me off, because an Astra Easytronic is available for not much more. I think an Astra will be next on the list for a test drive.
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The new Clio is very spacious, safe etc.
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Personally like the Yaris, and think you ought to drive one before making your decision. One of H.J`s favourites as well.!!!
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Personally like the Yaris, and think you ought to drive one before making your decision. One of H.J`s favourites as well.!!!
We tried to get a test drive in a Yaris auto at the local Toyota dealer some time ago but nothing was forthcoming. Basically, we were treated with complete indifference by the salesman concerned, so we were not impressed.
I have also recently enquired about a test drive in an Escort TDCi CVT but it seems to be impossible to arrange, so we will have to hope for the opportunity of driving a used model.
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Yes, but the auto version is not much cheaper, nor much more economical, than the equivalent Megane.
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Yes, but the auto version is not much cheaper, nor much more economical, than the equivalent Megane.
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I was referring to the comment about the new Clio but forgot to quote the original comment.
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