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In news:1ghwsb3.3aezpue8htrnN% snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk, SteveH decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Yup, I've been blatting about in lots of TDCi powered stuff an all today...

TDCi Fiestas do a fine line in lift off oversteer :-D

Don't like Fiestas.... but I'm quite taken in by this van.

ISTR it has something like 125bhp, which isn't bad at all, especially when you're running empty and can turn off the fridge compressor :-)

Certainly capable of surprising a lot of things away from the lights, and it's got quite a car-like driving position if you adjust it properly.

Yeah, that's the one.

I'm surprised my lot stumped up for close on a thousand of those, to be honest.

Still, I can see why my drivers enjoy the job.

I can ask what sort of miles they get from a tank, but, to be honest, would you care if it was all on account?

in a general response to a few questions the vito is great handling wise loaded up is a little bit hairy though with lots of wieght

Dunno, but you've just given me the idea of test driving a few new model vans :-)

Are they the 130bhp ones? Shame they haven't been around long enough to be cheap yet :-(

Peter

Pete - don't suppose you found out about those Sprinters at your work did you?

Peter

Heh, probably not. But if it was me I'd still take 10 seconds out to use the calculator function of my phone to find out anyway!

Yeah, if you could, try and find out roughly how many miles for how many pounds (or litres) worth of fuel. Don't ask them to remember too much though!!

Peter