PandaLounge said:

I tend to agree with what's said here. I don't buy or subscribe to any motor magazines and the whole Ford, VW and Audi are the best wears very thin.

I sometimes think that VW could insert spikes in its seats and Whatcar would still find a positive slant on it.

More frustrating is the website. Has online actually read the **** they write. By that I actually mean the spelling and typos. I can't believe that they allow some of it to be published online. One can only assume they don't have a proof reader.

Here's a typical example of the kind of dribble and uneducated **** that they spout-

(when talking about their team test car the Fiat Panda Pop) "We still can't believe that this entry level model even does without a fuel cap"

Now I'm no expert (although compared to them I'm a f***ing genius) but the Panda is fitted with Easy Fuel and therefore does not need a fuel cap. No Ford with Easy Fuel has a fuel cap and if they had even bothered to do any work and actually research this they would also have noticed that the Easy, Lounge, Trekking, 4x4 and upcoming Cross also do not have a fuel cap. It is of course bloody lazy journalism and an easy write up to assume a missing cap is because it's the entry level model.

My partner thinks I get to wound up by this sort of thing but it's the biased writing that I find frustrating. I mean I've driven the new Fiesta and if I believed the journo's I'd orgasm all over myself as soon as I turned the key. Imagine my disappointment when I realised it was just another ubiquitous Ford, albeit with a very nice engine. (I'll give them that one)

Steve

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RuSZ said:

I have to admit I looked at reviews before getting the alfa. But read every review and only viewed specifics not the overall rating. Mainly because I was looking out for things to avoid and look out for on a second hand model.

Pretty happy with the result and think the car handles brilliantly and has a good engine, despite been called wallowy, unrefined and poor in every review stating the Fous ST was faster... Not that comparing a 1.6 Diesel against a St Hot Hatch is helpful at all....

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