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I’ll check it out, and if it’s useful, it’ll stay. It’s an easy yes/no choice as it’s a Start/Stop button ( think old style Jags ) that plugs into the ignition socket.
Which car did you go for this time??
Me? If so, the Seat Leon ST FR 190 7DSG with the drivers pack. In Bohemian Purple
or in normal speak Seat Leon Estate automatic. Car names are a bit of a mouthful these days.I always had estates in the past. The coupe was the outlier. As fun as the old one was, I knew as I was ordering it I’d miss the space.
The new car is actually quicker than the old one, but doesn’t handle as well, it won’t carry the speeds ariudm the corners as well.
However it’s a good blend of practical and not dull. Though it likes to drink! And the fuel tank is small at 45 litres. I do miss the 75l tank of my old laguna, plus the 55mpg that averaged every month. Now I struggle to hit 30mpg and have a small tank. Filling it up twice a week!
It will eek out 50mpg on the motorway if I stick to 70. And if I blast down the lanes I can hit low single figures lol.
Basically it’s a poor man’s audi RS6, which I’d love, but don’t have 70k to drop on a car. And don’t think I would even if I did. Also being a high end german, it would end up being closer to 100k by the time I optioned it out, just to have a similar set of toys to the 27k Leon. The car world makes no sense.
The colour is very nice, though I wowed after my last car to not get a dark matalic car again. last one was emerold green, black come green, lots of matalic flake, that changed given the light. Beautiful, but terrible to keep clean.
So I ordered the Leon in Red. About 3 weeks later I seen my spec car in the bohemian purple, as you can see, it’s black come purple, loads of matalic flake, and changes colour depending on the light. I called them and had it changed.
It suffered the exact same dirt issue the old car did. Looks stunning for 48h after a wash then looks awful.
The pick above was just after a clean and polish. About 3 weeks ago. As the pub has eaten all my spare time it’s not been cleaned since, and oh boy does it show dirt. It’s mingling at the moment.
My old laguna was a burgsndy matalic colour. I had that 7 years mudt of washed it 3 times. It just didnt show dirt, same with my blue rover before it, and my white car before that. The rest was business rentals so never bothered with them.
I should of gone with the red or even gray. I was going to get the Octavia Vrs estste (same car as the leon RF) in matt grey, but skoda ruined the front with their face lift last year. I hear they are changing it again this year, as no one likes it, and it’s sales have suffered massively. I want a matt grey one with the black alloys.
Maybe nextime round if they fix the mess they made of the front lights. The spit the headlights in the same way merc did with the e class (iirc) in the mid 2000s. That was a flop too, which was rectified in about 2 years.
Though I’m glade I went with the Leon as imo it has the best front and rear led light design on the market atm. The entry level lean doesn’t, but anything above that they are very nice and aggressive.
Clocks: I love, house is full of them, including genuine Schwarzwald cuckoo clock which ticks like an unexploded bomb.* All are within 3 minutes of each other. Watches: I cannot wear a Quartz watch, they stop within days on my wrist. Not a one-off – I have had 4 over the years from cheap to expensive and it always happens. 2 will never go again, doesn’t matter who wears them, t’others I sold. The best watch I ever had was an Omega Seamaster, an automatic: closest I can find to it is this below and the price now blew my mind! (£5,500.) I paid £1,500 in 1968 after a great Poker win. That fell out of a 3rd floor barracks window in Germany, hit a bedford RL cab, then the tarmac. Beyond repair, all 3 internal cases split. I got a bit back for it in parts from a dealer.
Broke my heart to lose this:
*It keeps better time than our 3 Quartz wall clocks. I recently found (after many years, lol!) that I could turn up the ‘tick tock’ and am currently driving SWMBO crazy with it. “That clock is too loud, what have you done to it?!” I told her that her hearing aids are rubbish, as I have a fancy new pair. I am not looking forward to confessing the real reason…. but the cuckoo is now doing my head in, neighbours can hear it!
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