Simon from the Midlands

 

Exterior I love the bonet profile and the pheaton style rear piller.

 

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) The interior room is huge and very spacous.  there's plenty of room for 5 large adults.  The sat nav is more complex than it needs to be taking 3-4 clicks to even set guidence to take you home (1 button on my old Signum)  telephone system works very well.

 

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox The engine is great but could do with a wider spread of torque.  but then have gone from a V6 diesel to a 4 pot. The DSG box is great for 99% of the time.  2 areas where it struggles is when turning at a slow speed junction into an incline.  The DSG tends to kick down to many gears when in D in sport its already a gear lower and seems better.  Also when in D at low speeds it tends select a gear to high and labours a bit.

 

Ride Quality & Handling With a long wheel base and compliant suspension the ride is great.  the bump and rebound settings are equally good on motorways and poor B roads. Even with 18" rims with 40 profile tyres the ride is excellent.

 

Final Words We picked up this car 2 years old with 7k on the clock for 18.5k. We looked at E250 and A6 and found them to be 10k for the same featured car. All in all a bargin.

 

Areas of improvement Slightly better seats would help anybody in the 6'2" 16 stone department.  Other than that after 3000 miles I don't have any issues yet.  Probably the best car I've owned in 25 years of driving.

 

a great car for family and workseat squab could be deeper and a little wider.