awaiting delivery of my new V50

So I sold the V40 1.8 Sport (2002) which had replaced the S40 1.6S (1999)
and I bought a V50 1.8S with winter pack yesterday. I get it on 31 March -
Friday.

A mistake? What will it be like? What do you think?

"Geoff Pearson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> So I sold the V40 1.8 Sport (2002) which had replaced the S40 1.6S (1999)
> and I bought a V50 1.8S with winter pack yesterday. I get it on 31
March -
> Friday.
>
> A mistake? What will it be like? What do you think?


Did you not test drive one first?

Tim..

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> "Geoff Pearson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> So I sold the V40 1.8 Sport (2002) which had replaced the S40 1.6S (1999)
>> and I bought a V50 1.8S with winter pack yesterday. I get it on 31
> March -
>> Friday.
>>
>> A mistake? What will it be like? What do you think?
>
>
> Did you not test drive one first?
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> Tim..
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>

yes - but you can't tell much about a car from that. The important things
are about reliability, irritating faults, quirks and so on. Few cars will
show much wrong in a one hour test. It was very nice.

Geoff Pearson wrote:
> So I sold the V40 1.8 Sport (2002) which had replaced the S40 1.6S (1999)
> and I bought a V50 1.8S with winter pack yesterday. I get it on 31 March -
> Friday.
>
> A mistake? What will it be like? What do you think?
>
>
Comfortable, responsive, nice to drive, well appointed, dissapointing
build quality. Ours is 8 months old with ~ 30K Km and is already
suffering from annoying interior rattles & buzzes.
JM

I had "annoying interior rattles and buzzes" in my '96 850 Turbo.

It was an evil-handling pig, too: it wiped out and wrecked in a fairly
modest sweeping curve taken at speed; the car's styling (and price)
implied the quality and handling of a BMW, but delivered the experience
of a Yugo.