phaeton's Trip to the Dealer: up! Edition

[phaeton]

[phantomcamel]

Brilliant little car! We just received about a dozen and have them ready to roll!

I think the only downer here in Perth is that the market the up! is aimed at here in Perth either can't or doesn't want to drive manual transmission
I would be very happy to buy my daughters an up! as their first car as it safe, looks cute & I'll teach them manual driving!

[phaeton]

[phaeton]

[phaeton]

[phaeton]

Thanks to Kylie at Solitaire Hawthorn (Special thanks for the stickers & chat )

Thanks to Dale & Rob at Duttons (Special thanks to Dale for giving me the keys for quick drive)


Quick Drive & Various thoughts.
-Likes to be revved and has a nice 3 cylinder thrum.
-Steering is perfect, turning circle to.
-The seat adjusters in the 4 door are on the passenger inside, on the 2 door on both sides???
-You have to adjust the seat in the 2 door after moving the seats forwards for rear seat passenger access.
-For those that use sunvisor mirrors only the passenger gets a inbuilt one.
-The bonnet strap is like on a Hyundai Getz not bad thing just interesting.
-maps&more would be distracting if you have to use it while driving - did not have maps&more on the demo I tested, just sitting in the car playing with it saw that you have to take time to actually use it)
-In closing I don't think any City Car comes close to the feeling you get while driving the up!.

[yauipop]

Thanks for the pics and nice write-up.

I was inspired to go to my nearest dealer to grab a pricelist:



Can't help to think there's a mistake with the 5-door pricing?

[noone]

It looks odd with the red accents, All the colours other than black the rear hatch looks odd not being the same colour.

Black looks like the weener.

Hoping to see a few around soon, thanks for the photos

[phaeton]

Thanks for the pics and nice write-up.

I was inspired to go to my nearest dealer to grab a pricelist.

Can't help to think there's a mistake with the 5-door pricing?

Retail is $14,990.00 everything else is right

[phaeton]

Thanks to Kylie & the team at Solitaire Medindie for letting take pictures

[phaeton]

Two up!

[gavs]

phaeton's Trip to the Dealer: up! Edition

I got to poke around one of these the other day and was really interested to really have a good look over it (being a designer and all) and I was horribly disappointed in it. I thought what I was king to be looking at would be a cleverly packaged city car with lots of intuitive interior design and clever space usage. Instead, I found a dishwasher with 4 wheels and a Vw badge on it. This car really has no function other than to drive a few hundred meters down the road or to fill courtesy car fleets. I struggle to get a weeks shopping in the boot of my polo GTI and I couldn't get more than 2 bags in this thing. The gearshift felt like my Mk4 golf with the crow wheel starting to jettison from the diff, the seating position for me was awkward, I felt twisted, the steering was great though for such high series rubber though and visibility awesome.

[Flighter]

So what happened to the body coloured dash? I thought that looked cool.

[Lozze]

I struggle to get a weeks shopping in the boot of my polo GTI and I couldn't get more than 2 bags in this thing

Really? That's surprising. I'm moving currently and got ten boxes in my car. Was shocked at the size of the vehicle!

[Lucas_R]

phaeton's Trip to the Dealer: up! Edition

^ were they shoe boxes?