Bailes1992
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Originally Posted by bdcardinal
Originally Posted by Vikas
I am absolutely shocked at realizing that half of the terms used by OP went over my head even though I did get the gist of it. So much difference between the English language that is spoken by British versus by American :-)
Originally Posted by vavavroom
Originally Posted by Bailes1992
Our Duster had a 1.5 litre, 4 cylinder turbo diesel engine with a 6 speed manual gearbox and 4WD. We owned ours for 2 years and it was fully dependable, albeit we only did 14,000miles in that time. It was brilliant on rubbish runs to the tip, was great when we moved house, it was great in the snow, was comfortable on long journeys and did 50+ MPG.
Originally Posted by hpb
I was waiting for the cries of "You can't have something that small as a family car!" from our US brethren. Perfect. It's all the vehicle you need. We had 3 young kids (all in car seats, 2 still in prams) and the family car was a 2004 Ford Focus sedan...did the job easily.
Originally Posted by fdcg27
We were getting there at one time, but something went awry and we now have mainly largish CUVs as family transport.
I loved the smaller cars that we had and if you like this Dacia you would have loved one of our eighties Civic Wagons.
Alas, the middle classes here have decided that more car than you need is somehow better.