Modern hire car horrors

missfire · 28-03-15, 07:09 PM

Says he who just bought a Kia kid wagon/box. I agree,

but I've still got both, the best/worst of both worlds.

Kia bus, very quite, refined, comfortable, easy to use, intuitive controls, soaks up bumps like no old car, fuel gauge doesn't actually even move unless you do over 200 miles in one trip. It's good, very good for what I want it for. Long trips are amazing, get out the other end feeling like you were driven there by the car.

But, in the allroad shitbus, you could feel where every wheel was, exactly what every wheel was doing, how much grip each wheel had etc. In the Kia you are a lot of the time questioning if it even has wheels, feels more like a hovercraft of some kind. You turn the wheel and it goes around the corner, you press the brakes and it stops in a quarter of the distance of any older audi I've had. (You realise how dangerous the older brakes are all of a sudden!)

It has a personality, but it has no soul, that's what's missing. But it's not it's fault!

it wants a soul, like the tin man (or was that a heart?) it just wasn't given one.

28-03-15, 07:09 PM	#9
missfire making wooden things Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: cow land Posts: 8,156	Says he who just bought a Kia kid wagon/box. I agree, but I've still got both, the best/worst of both worlds. Kia bus, very quite, refined, comfortable, easy to use, intuitive controls, soaks up bumps like no old car, fuel gauge doesn't actually even move unless you do over 200 miles in one trip. It's good, very good for what I want it for. Long trips are amazing, get out the other end feeling like you were driven there by the car. But, in the allroad shitbus, you could feel where every wheel was, exactly what every wheel was doing, how much grip each wheel had etc. In the Kia you are a lot of the time questioning if it even has wheels, feels more like a hovercraft of some kind. You turn the wheel and it goes around the corner, you press the brakes and it stops in a quarter of the distance of any older audi I've had. (You realise how dangerous the older brakes are all of a sudden!) It has a personality, but it has no soul, that's what's missing. But it's not it's fault! it wants a soul, like the tin man (or was that a heart?) it just wasn't given one.