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What's with the instant slagging of French stuff
I have a citrone c2 1.6 petrol and it's the most reliable / cheapest to run car I've had
The worst was an a4 1.8 t closely followed by my current golf tdi
Once vag stuff may have been worth the premium but not anymore
Doing the same trips c2 does 45 ish average and the golf 42mpg
The petrol one is far cheaper and has no dmf etc
I'd buy a French petrol car, but not one loaded with electric gizmos though.
Best car we ever had was a petrol Corolla, but that wasn't exactly hassle free due to oil sludge. Once sorted (by me), it went on to do another 50k miles in typical boring Toyota fashion. 🙂
I'm a nothing wrong with French cars person too. They only assemble the damp things, the parts that tend to go wrong are always parts supplied to other manufacturers too, ie fuel injectors and electrical parts.
They come cheap compared to the VW/Ford cars and we've had no issues at all, my wife drives a Renault Laguna it's the lowest spec, so no daft electronic handbrake and no dpf, it's brilliant economical and cheap to run.
I tend to buy 3 year old ex lease vehicles, cars that generally aren't being got rid of due to a problem!
Bugger, too late to edit, excuse the auto correct on my phone please 😉