Aygo Trouble

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hello

[Jan&tone]

welcome to TOC

The Aygo is a cheap city car, built cheaply with cheap materials. With that in mind, you have bought a car that is nippy, agile and great fun to drive!

seating. Try adjusting the seat, when you get it right, which you will, forbid anyone to alter it on pain of death! The backrest adjusts as well as forward and back. I am 6'6" and fit happily in our 'blue' so unless you are taller than that.....

Fuel economy... How does 48-52 mpg grab you? And that is on a 20 mile twisty country road trip to work in all weathers over the last 11 months from new. As I said the Aygo is great fun to drive, we have the MMT version and whilst it won't beat anything away from the lights it will quite happily wizz round our lanes at up to 60 and easily do 70 on our local motorway (m25)

The day we collected it last summer, we went on an 80 mile trip from home to Folkestone, motorway all the way there and back apart from a mile or so each end, 81mpg at a constant 65 mph! Never got that since, but never had 75 miles of constant speed since either...

If you are getting 'agression' from other drivers, sorry mate but that is nothing to do with the car you are driving, but maybe your driving style?

Hope you learn to love your little beast as the rest of us have

[Cyker]

I dunno, Aygo's don't get a lot of cred and if you're just driving along at the speed limit you do get the odd smeg pot who'll hassle you. I get that in my Yaris some times

As my driving instructor would say, sod 'em all, drive legally and safely and don't let tail-gaters faze you. If they really take the mick, lift off and gently slow down until they are forced to back off then resume your chosen speed.

I always shake my head when people tailgate learners and then fume at their speed when, if they just backed off to a safe distance, they'd find it much less frustrating and the learner would probably speed up a bit too!

Drive smoothly but don't dawdle.

I will say don't spend ages accelerating gently; Contrary to what some people say, this doesn't save that much fuel, will annoy almost everyone and creates a hazard.

As part of my fuel-saving efforts, I usually accelerate quite briskly so I can get to the speed limit ASAP then carry on in the highest gear that speed supports, generally 4th or 5th. Then my D4D basically idles its way along, although I try to maintain a 2 second gap to absorb speed changes from people in front of me without having to brake as much as they do.

Save a surprising amount of fuel!