While the Aero is in. Surprisingly nice to drive considering it has done 150k. Interior and tactile surfaces spotless. Cupholder funky. Driver and front passenger seperate temp controls nice touch. Auto goes well but seems thirsty. I'm sure the fuel tank is a lot smaller too. Aero, =A340 fills the top half of the tank with super.
9-5 lpt =A320 took it from Red to half a tank.
Handling is nice for an auto cruiser. Softer but no soggier than the=20 Aero.
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Does anyone in the UK use these bloody things? I can think of lots of things to use the space for more effectively. Like some minor controls that get hidden away to make room for them.
Yeah! McDonalds (used to) do good coffee. We used the ones in the Vectra to hold our coffees when we went down to Rockingham last weekend. We left the kids with my mother so there were no feet to boot scaliding liquid everywhere...
People who drive long distances regularly do. It can be a real pain drinking in a car without cupholders - your bottle of pop ends up rolling around on the floor, and if you're drinking from a cup, you have to drink the lot in one go or hold it between your knees. Not something I'd worry about in a fun car, but (I'm in danger of sounding like SteveH now), when you've got to drive a couple of hours on the motorway to somewhere and a couple of hours back at the end of the day, niceties like low noise levels, a comfy seat, cupholders and a comfy ride take precedence.
Some people may prefer to stop to have a drink, but to me that's time completely wasted - it's not something you can book down as work time, and a lot of the time I'll arrange to set off before traffic gets too heavy, and IME a twenty minute or so delay at the start of a journey often turns into an hour or two delay at the other end, which in my line of business is good for nobody - it drives up our prices, and keeps me in the car when I could be more productively sat at home drinking tea.
Some do. Personally, I don't; if I'm going to take a drink, I'll stop. The Ka had great bottle holders in the door and I simply didn't use them.
Yeah; in some cars. Most of the minor but often used controls in the 9-3 I'm running (headlights for the most part) are on the dashboard. It has Saab's equivalent of climate control and 99% of the time I can leave this alone. The window switches are between the front seats and if it had a sunroof, the switch would be here too, but otherwise, everything I need is mounted high up on the dashboard.
Come to think of it, the foldable damped cupholder thing that the 9-3 can have is mounted just below the header unit, also nice and high up too...
They don't, there are about three different bean to cup machines they use depending on the size of the outlet, and as you mentioned some don't seem to clean them very well.
Yeah, the problem with that was that some franchised outlets would buy cheapo coffee from the local cash and carry and throw that in, and it could be on the warmer for hours on end. Big busy corporate owned stores were fine though.
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