Thousands, rather than tens of thousands, of miles a year?
Yes; my average mileage over the lifetime of the Clio was about 5000/year.
And, as you note, there's at least a risk that ones you don't like at first you'll continue to dislike.
Mmm. I mostly adjusted to the different feel of the hire car (a one-year-old Astra), but one thing that was still annoying me after over two weeks was the fact that the indicator stalk locks electronically rather than mechanically (so that it always re-centres when you let go of it, and a computer somewhere remembers that it's supposed to carry on flashing). I hope that isn't a standard feature of all sufficiently new cars, or it'll annoy me forever once I have to replace this one...
PS So what did you get?
I'm assuming that you didn't miss the three uses of the word "Polo" in my original post and are after more detail. Polo 1.4 SE 80, '07' registration, five-door, colour bright red. (Not sure the colour is entirely me, but then you don't get that much choice of colour when buying 2nd hand, and given what happened to the last car because somebody didn't notice it in front of them, I find I can't see garishness as entirely a bad thing :-)
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Yes; my average mileage over the lifetime of the Clio was about 5000/year.
And, as you note, there's at least a risk that ones you don't like at first you'll continue to dislike.
Mmm. I mostly adjusted to the different feel of the hire car (a one-year-old Astra), but one thing that was still annoying me after over two weeks was the fact that the indicator stalk locks electronically rather than mechanically (so that it always re-centres when you let go of it, and a computer somewhere remembers that it's supposed to carry on flashing). I hope that isn't a standard feature of all sufficiently new cars, or it'll annoy me forever once I have to replace this one...
PS So what did you get?
I'm assuming that you didn't miss the three uses of the word "Polo" in my original post and are after more detail. Polo 1.4 SE 80, '07' registration, five-door, colour bright red. (Not sure the colour is entirely me, but then you don't get that much choice of colour when buying 2nd hand, and given what happened to the last car because somebody didn't notice it in front of them, I find I can't see garishness as entirely a bad thing :-)