Malcyb
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Just throwing this question out there… much as we’re quite attached to Gracie, when London’s ULEZ undergoes a huge expansion in 12 months time, that will be the point that it will no longer be economically viable to continue to own her as it’ll cover a lot of the journeys she routinely does. So my thoughts have been idly turning to what I’d replace her with. I’d consider other options besides an A2 but it would be really nice to stay in the family if possible. We’ve got a 65 reg Polo GTI that scratches my performance itch and is great for long journeys, so the 2nd car is mostly Mrs Malcyb’s, mostly for shorter trips with the occasional longer one. Outright performance or load-lugging isn’t too important, but it needs to be quick enough away from the lights to be stress-free in busy traffic and not too bad on a motorway cruise.
So it’s a petrol 1.4 vs FSi question really. I’m torn as to which would be the better bet. I’ve always been slightly scared of the FSi, however does the proboost remap make it as reliable proposition as a 1.4 for someone who’s not mechanically savvy? I found a thread by @A2Steve from a few years back singing the praises of a good 1.4 AUA.
https://www.a2oc.net/community/index.php?threads/1-4-petrol-aua-i-retract-my-statement.39503/
I was a passenger in @PlasticMac ’s FSi a few years back, before I bought Gracie, and was very impressed, but actually probably has a little more performance than we really need.
I’m tending to think that either could work for us, it would just be a case of waiting for the best car to come along. Come the right time I’d be happy to pay a premium for a really good lowish mileage high spec example and would naturally consider something which involved a swap within A2OC with Gracie. We probably wouldn’t start looking in earnest until next year as we haven’t really squeezed the goodness out of all the work we had done to Gracie but I’d be interested in the thoughts of those in the know, and in the meantime if the perfect car emerged we’d probably be foolish to ignore it just because it was a bit too soon.
So it’s a petrol 1.4 vs FSi question really. I’m torn as to which would be the better bet. I’ve always been slightly scared of the FSi, however does the proboost remap make it as reliable proposition as a 1.4 for someone who’s not mechanically savvy? I found a thread by @A2Steve from a few years back singing the praises of a good 1.4 AUA.
https://www.a2oc.net/community/index.php?threads/1-4-petrol-aua-i-retract-my-statement.39503/
I was a passenger in @PlasticMac ’s FSi a few years back, before I bought Gracie, and was very impressed, but actually probably has a little more performance than we really need.
I’m tending to think that either could work for us, it would just be a case of waiting for the best car to come along. Come the right time I’d be happy to pay a premium for a really good lowish mileage high spec example and would naturally consider something which involved a swap within A2OC with Gracie. We probably wouldn’t start looking in earnest until next year as we haven’t really squeezed the goodness out of all the work we had done to Gracie but I’d be interested in the thoughts of those in the know, and in the meantime if the perfect car emerged we’d probably be foolish to ignore it just because it was a bit too soon.