Hyundai Trajet

ladgie353 · 01-12-2006 10:38am #1

I have been looking at one of these recently.
Does anybody have first-hand experience with one?
Good points - bad points
Thanks

Henry Ford III · 01-12-2006 10:59am

A friend had one. It was cheap.

Apart from that it had very little to make him happy.

unkel · 01-12-2006 1:07pm

Colleague has one. Cheap compared to the competition. Does what it says on the tin

Not a nice place to be in tbh but with a full load of screaming kids you probably won't even notice

Pherekydes · 01-12-2006 2:49pm

unkel wrote:

Not a nice place to be in...

I was rear-ended in mine, by a Micra doing 40. I got a small bit of whiplash and 4.5k's worth of damage; his car was a complete write-off. He just bounced off me.

Dull safety Vs. style? Gimme dull safety any day.

Oh, and plenty of space for the screaming kids, too.

unkel · 01-12-2006 3:39pm

Slow coach wrote:

I was rear-ended in mine, by a Micra doing 40

Just as well there were no children in the 3rd row of seats :eek:

The Trajet has only a 3 star Euro NCAP safety rating. Most modern large MPVs now have 4 or 5 stars...

colm_mcm · 01-12-2006 6:53pm

They make loads of sense second hand, but don't buy a new one. there's an entirely new model using the fantastic VGT CRDI 2.2 engine. It'll have sliding rear doors too.

ianobrien · 02-12-2006 11:28am

A friend has one. He calls it the "Tragedy"

Enough said

Pherekydes · 04-12-2006 8:22am

unkel wrote:

Just as well there were no children in the 3rd row of seats :eek:

The Micra never got close to the third row. A big impact, for sure, but no real damage to the interior.

As for the NCAP, I fail to see how I would have come off better. That's really all that concerns me in a collision.

maidhc · 04-12-2006 8:41am

Slow coach wrote:

The Micra never got close to the third row. A big impact, for sure, but no real damage to the interior.

As for the NCAP, I fail to see how I would have come off better. That's really all that concerns me in a collision.

A big vehicle will nearly always do better in a two car crash with a small vehicle due to the forces of momentum. However in a single car accident when the large vehicle hits an immovable accident engineering and safety equipment become more important.

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