Advantages: It's a great little city/town/country car. Its fabulously economic. Disadvantages: No power steering on this particular model.
for what I would get next, couldn't find anything that was quite what I wanted. But one evening I picked up the local paper one night and spied something that looked just right.
Pedro Mark 2. It was a 1999 1.0 purple Polo, almost identical to the one I lost. Another reliable little car hopefully, my last one had done 345,000 miles when it was finally put to rest! Remarkable! This one seemed better somehow, it was cleaner than my first one which had come to earn the nickname of the "Shedlo" because of the state of it. Rusty holes had come into contact with the inevitable Scottish rain, making them look like bleeding bullet wounds! It was a much newer one with better equipment AND it had alloys! Lovely.
Any Polo owner will know, you get in and you've fallen in love. They really are great little cars. My friends have 3 or 4 year old ...
Advantages: Strong, Sturdy Car & Little Big Car Feel Disadvantages: None as Yet
**The Story**
I have recently invested in a S Reg 1999 VW Polo 1.0litre. I decided on Volkswagen after Id had a lot of trouble with my first car a Peugeot 106, eeevil things wont go there.
Ive always heard that Volkswagens were reliable well built cars though I'd never really taken much notice of them. I needed a small car as Im only 18 and obviouslly petrol prices and more importantly Insurance premiums are a major influence...(If you and not mommy & daddy are paying to keep your car on the road) I looked at a range of Volkswagens and decided on the Polo. I had a look at a range of different mark Polos and decided on the Mk4. Not too dated like earlier mk's and containing more modern equipment too.
I looked around and luckily almost immediately spotted a little Racing Green fellow on Autotrader. It was S Reg and had just 37 ...
Advantages: Nice looking car Disadvantages: To many problems
I bought this car because I could afford it, the insurance is cheap (1.0 litre engine) and it looks really nice. I got it in white, but of course there is any colour you want available. If you can afford it. Of course I could not afford a new one, so I got a second hand VW from a dealer for £5100. It looked new and did not seem to have any major problems, plus a 6 month warrantee.
Features: The VW Polo I got came with a CD player/radio, ABS, power steering (adjustable steering wheel). It?s a 1 litre and goes about 97mph.
The petrol usage is quite low, so this a good reason to buy this car. Probably about the only one, apart from its cute looks and nice interior.
Feature which would be nice, but are not available: Unfortunately it does not come with central locking, alarm or electric windows. Pretty annoying I would say.
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