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In another thread Paul mentioned that he has downsized from a Falcon and congrats to him on joining the Polo club. [emoji108]
I've always been a fan of small cars - fuel consumption, parking ease, handling, and extra space in my garage - but how have you found the transition from a large car?
I may need to upsize once my 2 daughters hit their mid-teens (in 3 more years) but for now the Polo GTIs are just the right size for my wife and I.
We drove to Metung for the day earlier this week and we only would have needed a larger car if we wanted to take luggage but we just took small fishing rods, an esky and a bucket and that was enough to fill the tiny Polo boot. Even if we wanted to do that once or twice a year it would be cheaper to hire something bigger like a Cruze or Mazda 6.
It was a 30 degree day and with the aircon on all the way we averaged 6.4l/100kms over the 500km distance which is not as good as the 5.3 I got it down to when commuting to work on the freeway in the morning but still pretty good IMO. We did our first long drive many years ago in a brand new 1998 1.6l Pulsar and that was a horrible drive because it had no power for the big hills on the Hume. The power of my 1.4l Polo GTI was perfect and I'd love to take the wife's 2015 1.8l manual GTI for the same drive to compare fuel consumption and comfort but I don't want to risk the stone chips in the red paint.
Anyway back to the topic... I wouldn't buy a larger car for daily use just because I need a bigger boot a couple of times a year, renting would be cheaper.
So why do you prefer a small car and have you ever had or considered a bigger car?
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I've always been a fan of small cars - fuel consumption, parking ease, handling, and extra space in my garage - but how have you found the transition from a large car?
I may need to upsize once my 2 daughters hit their mid-teens (in 3 more years) but for now the Polo GTIs are just the right size for my wife and I.
We drove to Metung for the day earlier this week and we only would have needed a larger car if we wanted to take luggage but we just took small fishing rods, an esky and a bucket and that was enough to fill the tiny Polo boot. Even if we wanted to do that once or twice a year it would be cheaper to hire something bigger like a Cruze or Mazda 6.
It was a 30 degree day and with the aircon on all the way we averaged 6.4l/100kms over the 500km distance which is not as good as the 5.3 I got it down to when commuting to work on the freeway in the morning but still pretty good IMO. We did our first long drive many years ago in a brand new 1998 1.6l Pulsar and that was a horrible drive because it had no power for the big hills on the Hume. The power of my 1.4l Polo GTI was perfect and I'd love to take the wife's 2015 1.8l manual GTI for the same drive to compare fuel consumption and comfort but I don't want to risk the stone chips in the red paint.
Anyway back to the topic... I wouldn't buy a larger car for daily use just because I need a bigger boot a couple of times a year, renting would be cheaper.
So why do you prefer a small car and have you ever had or considered a bigger car?
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