After eleven years & 61,000 miles in our Hyundai I.30, we've decided to change to a newer car.
Did the rounds with various agents and private dealers, telling each one that our I.30 ticked all the boxes for what were looking for thus giving them all a standard to work to.
Only at the Hyundai dealer did I learn that low mileage used I.30s are hard to come by, but the Kia Ceed range is pretty much an I.30 just wearing a different suit as it were. Thus we will be taking delivery of a two year old Ceed with low mileage next week.
When we went for our test drive, the GLW who had no particular interest in cars observed that the controls are all pretty much in the same place. And she had a wail of a time with the centre touch screen console - !
Point made I think, although there's a heck of a lot more techno 'goodies' built in as standard that I'll have to get my head round and the manual is three times as thick as our present I.30 - !
What is interesting and is the essence of this post is that I'd also been to our local branch of Big Motoring World and despite the lad who saw me asking a colleague of his about an alternative to an I.30 when he was stumped and they having over twenty Ceeds on their books, neither thought to suggest one as an alternative.
But the two year old ones they do have available all have at least twice the mileage more than the one we're getting.
Sometimes, it's better to stick with the official dealer.
Did the rounds with various agents and private dealers, telling each one that our I.30 ticked all the boxes for what were looking for thus giving them all a standard to work to.
Only at the Hyundai dealer did I learn that low mileage used I.30s are hard to come by, but the Kia Ceed range is pretty much an I.30 just wearing a different suit as it were. Thus we will be taking delivery of a two year old Ceed with low mileage next week.
When we went for our test drive, the GLW who had no particular interest in cars observed that the controls are all pretty much in the same place. And she had a wail of a time with the centre touch screen console - !
Point made I think, although there's a heck of a lot more techno 'goodies' built in as standard that I'll have to get my head round and the manual is three times as thick as our present I.30 - !
What is interesting and is the essence of this post is that I'd also been to our local branch of Big Motoring World and despite the lad who saw me asking a colleague of his about an alternative to an I.30 when he was stumped and they having over twenty Ceeds on their books, neither thought to suggest one as an alternative.
But the two year old ones they do have available all have at least twice the mileage more than the one we're getting.
Sometimes, it's better to stick with the official dealer.
