Car buyer suggestions

[The_Traveller]

For sure. I just don't quite understand the logic.

Why bother with the SQ5 at all then? Just stick to the Etios?

Why bother enforcing your views and opinions on me? I don't tell you how to live your life and how to spend your money. Perhaps you trying to up your post count?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Why bother enforcing your views and opinions on me? I don't tell you how to live your life and how to spend your money. Perhaps you trying to up your post count?

I'm just genuinely trying to understand your logic around the matter.

Here I am about to sell a car that is bought and paid for because it doesn't get hard enough to justify what it costs me in insurance and servicing (and the that fact that the battery dies) and then there is you who has a run around car while you have the money to buy an SQ5 which will seemingly suffer the same fate as my second car.

So I ask again if you don't even care to drive your wife's GTI7 because you prefer the Etios why bother with the SQ5 at all?

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Saw your other post now.

All things considered if it was an A1 as your daily run around I could maybe understand it better, but they are all solved by the SQ5.

The issues mentioned with the GTI I can understand,

 

[Brawler]

1. Can I drive the gti fast over speed bumps? No!
2. Can I hammer the gti and not expect problems? No!
3. Both my MKV and MKVI gti's break pads had to be replaced by 18k Km's ( normal driving with the full the throttle here and there)
4. Etios is a Monday to Friday work run around, also dropping my kids to school in the morning driving on gravel road for 2km.
5. Can the gti drive on gravel roads with holes the size of a car itself? No!
6. The same reason why people buy million rand luxury cars to drive them once a month, I want to buy an Audi SQ5 for the weekend(s).

Poverty spec'd car works for 'me'...
Opinions opinions ....

Yes, as I said in my first post, different stokes for different folks. We were just hoping you would explain the logic behind your particular choice to help us understand.

We are asking what is the logic of the Etios & a SQ5.

1. A SQ5 is higher than a Etios so it can do speed bumps better.
2. S Audis are designed to be driven hard so no problems there either. Great mplan in case something goes wrong.
3. That is a problem with golfs then, not a strong point of the Etios.
4. 4x4 will do that better too.
5. as above
6. Sure, if you can, do it. As I have said before I understand if you had a GTR and a cheapy but I do not understand the point of a fast mid-sized SUV and a cheapy. Basically you have an amazing vehicle sitting locked up in the garage that is safer for the family, much more comfortable etc etc. On top of that it cost a hell of a lot so why not use it and suffer with an Etios.

Enjoy the SQ5, if you really get one.

 

[Debeer165]

Nope, you can take bumps etc more roughly in the Etios.

I think what he's trying to say is that it's a cheapo so he isn't worried about damaging it via ramping every bump for example. Plus, that's just Toyota driver mentality

 

[Quantum Theory]

Weird...

 

[Nangi]

This is what I did. I bought a Toyota Etios for R110k to run around and buying the Audi SQ5 within a month for weekend driving.

wait a little longer and make it a 2015

 

[The_Traveller]

Nope, you can take bumps etc more roughly in the Etios.

I think what he's trying to say is that it's a cheapo so he isn't worried about damaging it via ramping every bump for example. Plus, that's just Toyota driver mentality

big time thread derail but yes Debeer, you got my drift.

wait a little longer and make it a 2015

That's why i'll take delivery mid December, and have the dealer register it in Jan.

 

[saguran]

Hi guys, I need to buy another car. Will be doing about 60 000 km per year. Was looking at the VW Golf 7, Honda Civic or Kia Sportage. They all cost almost the same here.

Obviously need something that will be reliable and cheap to service. It must be good on the long roads as well, 260km per day, mostly highway. Any other suggestions would be welcome.

 

[saguran]

Hi guys, I need to buy another car. Will be doing about 60 000 km per year. Was looking at the VW Golf 7, Honda Civic or Kia Sportage. They all cost almost the same here.

Obviously need something that will be reliable en cheap to service. It must be good on the long roads as well, 260km per day, mostly highway. Any other suggestions would be welcome.

Sorry if this thread was specific to one member

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Apparently he "travels" on roads made of only speed bumps.

More money than sense, I suppose.

 

[foxtrotunicorncharliekilo]

This is what I did. I bought a Toyota Etios for R110k to run around and buying the Audi SQ5 within a month for weekend driving.

So how is the SQ5?