Quick Punto review

Try pushing the "girly" button. Most amusing.

If they're anything like the last gen Punto, they're pretty horrid full stop.

ObVectra: You were right - it was s**te.

Crap on fuel, and the most annoying indicators I've every had the misfortune to use. The headlights were pretty piss poor as well on dipped beam.

So it's gone back (1) and been replaced by a much lower mileage Fabia

Not the fastest car in the world, but it seems to be screwed together quite nicely, sounds nice and grunty when you rev it, and is pretty good on fuel.

That, and being a Comfort model it's got air-con and a half decent standard stereo.

More importantly (and weirdly), it needs a lot less cog swapping than the Vectra.

"It'll do..." for a couple of years anyway, at which point it'll almost certainly be passed onto SWMBO, and the KA (2) will then become the eldests first car (3)

(1) ...thanks to a discrepancy on the paperwork provided by the supplying dealer meaning I could reject the car...

(2) One of the most reliable sub =A3500 cars I've ever bought, and there have been a few over the years - *nothing* has gone wrong with it at all since we got it in January (4), and it's put up with all manner of abuse from me, so I see no reason this side of a SWMBO post test smack for it not to be around for my eldest to learn in.

(3) Yes, I accept I had to replace the sump and full exhaust at the time.

(4) ...at which point I'm sure the over-exuberance of youth will ensure it'll end up being ceremoniously rolled onto its roof, as is UKRCM tradition. ;-)

-- JackH

I didn't mind one for the run from Bristol to Malvern but it was waaayy over servoed. Pressing the girly button made it dangerous.

Yup, the only place the Vectra works (for some values of work) is on a long, empty motorway run, preferably with no hills.

I preferred my last Mk3 Golf TDI estate... and I know how much you like those as well. ;-)

-- JackH