Motorcyclist Colin
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My TA 4x4 has only done 1400 miles from new, but feels reasonably free, certainly not too tight to pull 6th. I don't use Eco (after just checking it out for function) and have done few long runs, unfortunately. I get between 38 and 40 mpg, and I don't let it labour whatever the system tells me to change up. Stop/start is used, but I can't wait to get it fully freed up and give it a bit of "wellie". Still can't see/decide where oil appears on the colour matched dip stick. Whatever the NCAP rating I think it is a cracking little car, and I love it.Prior to the Panda I bought a new top of the range 500X 2ltr diesel 9 speed auto 4x4 ( the dealer kept knocking down the price till it seemedtoo good to be true) but I really didn't like it, and only kept it for the year I took to sell it. If it seems too good to be true then it is!! It was pre-registered by the dealer so they clearly couldn't shift it, the PDI must have been done by a blind ex-butcher and it came out of the showroom with a few bits such as the radio aerial missing. The dealer was #~"^**+=! I bought/ordered the Panda at a different dealer who was OK