My wife has been commenting on how awkward she finds driving the TA Trekking in town, waffling on about how difficult she finds it to select gears and its general lack of flexibility.
She does a lot of driving in heavy traffic and is beginning to find it such a pain we might have to look as replacing it.
I drove the car this morning and I thought it was a great drive and put it down to the fact that as a man I'm clearly just a better driver than her( that's a joke in case I upset someone).
The thing is that this was in relatively light traffic.
Coming back the Bank Hols traffic had picked up and it was a lot more stop start.
It was then I did find the car a little awkward.
There was a couple of occasions where I found 2nd gear too high and 1st too low, either lugging or revving the engine. I also found it quite difficult to get it in gear- easy enough if you blip the throttle but it definitely needed a blip.
I've been doing this without a second thought, but I don't think my wife has ever learnt this particular skill and trying to teach her now will just cause marital strife.
Has anyone else encountered this characteristic? I don't think it's a fault, just the car being a Fiat.
I think that because she's always fancied a diesel 4x4 even though it's the same as the Trekking, that might be her end game. I beleive they have a 6 speed box and I was wondering if the ratios made town driving any better?
I was put off the diesel first time round as it was a bit underpowered but I think the newer more powerful versions should be much more fun.
She does a lot of driving in heavy traffic and is beginning to find it such a pain we might have to look as replacing it.
I drove the car this morning and I thought it was a great drive and put it down to the fact that as a man I'm clearly just a better driver than her( that's a joke in case I upset someone).
The thing is that this was in relatively light traffic.
Coming back the Bank Hols traffic had picked up and it was a lot more stop start.
It was then I did find the car a little awkward.
There was a couple of occasions where I found 2nd gear too high and 1st too low, either lugging or revving the engine. I also found it quite difficult to get it in gear- easy enough if you blip the throttle but it definitely needed a blip.
I've been doing this without a second thought, but I don't think my wife has ever learnt this particular skill and trying to teach her now will just cause marital strife.
Has anyone else encountered this characteristic? I don't think it's a fault, just the car being a Fiat.
I think that because she's always fancied a diesel 4x4 even though it's the same as the Trekking, that might be her end game. I beleive they have a 6 speed box and I was wondering if the ratios made town driving any better?
I was put off the diesel first time round as it was a bit underpowered but I think the newer more powerful versions should be much more fun.
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