Oh yes!
I've owned a couple of french cars over the years, most notably a Renault 20. A friend also has a relatively new Captur and I have to say this for them, They are very comfortable with comfy seats and compliant suspension.
French cars have always been soft, and very comfortable. Sometimes they even handled well too. The Renault 16 was quite good, despite soft seats and suspension.I've owned a couple of french cars over the years, most notably a Renault 20. A friend also has a relatively new Captur and I have to say this for them, They are very comfortable with comfy seats and compliant suspension.
Don’t advise older Nissan leafs, or older EVs in general…there’s uproar that Nissan is stopping support for the electronics/software on them and it seems, according to motor media and driving/breakdown clubs, that this will be an ongoing issue!
I welded up a frame so that I could put a spare 128 coupe bucket seat in my flat. The landlord bought it off me wehn I gave notice
Yes that’s the bit that they were saying in the mainstream media, but motoring hacks are saying that, the long term implications are that the software that makes the car stop/go, will no longer be supported. This may well spawn some ‘spurious’ specialists to come along and plug the gap, like folk with older PCs, laptops etc are supported by independents, but that won’t help longer term
A friend of mine has a Peugeot 208 & the seats in that are really comfy, I remember when I was about 18 a mate at the time his stepdad had a brand new C3 Picasso which was really uncomfy like sitting on a park bench, my Bravo I had at the time was much more comfy & that had no foam at all in the base of the drivers seat as it had all disintegratedI've owned a couple of french cars over the years, most notably a Renault 20. A friend also has a relatively new Captur and I have to say this for them, They are very comfortable with comfy seats and compliant suspension.
Yes, that’s what I’m equating it to, it’s not an EV specific issue, it’s the fact that manufacturers stop supporting with ‘parts’ after a very length of time. It doesn’t matter whether the parts are ‘physical’ or software but the implications for EVs, coupled with their costs, are likely to have a bigger impact in the future
I did like my dads old Citroen GS Palace for comfort, but the brakes were like a switch, on or off!A friend of mine has a Peugeot 208 & the seats in that are really comfy, I remember when I was about 18 a mate at the time his stepdad had a brand new C3 Picasso which was really uncomfy like sitting on a park bench, my Bravo I had at the time was much more comfy & that had no foam at all in the base of the drivers seat as it had all disintegrated
Older citroens, with the powered suspension/brakes, were an aquired taste. I only once drove a GS and remember how it behaved as if it had monstrously excessive transmission backlash. Driven the streamlined DS on a number of occasions, one of our customers owned one, and I well remember the foot break button on the floor which really hardly moved but responded to pressure, you had to get your head round it to drive one smoothly. I also remember the absolute forest of 3.5mm hydraulic tubing which seemed to posses the car like a bad case of worms in a dog! In my ignorance I landed the job of replacing some of them. It was a real education involving borrowing the special tool to form the flares (not at all like conventional flares) and remembering to put a new O ring on before assembly. On the other hand bleeding was easy, the car almost did it itself.
