Renault 5

It was Kearys in Dublin but definitely a cork connection!

Rear seat space seems to be very related to how far back you sit, im 5'11 and leave very little space but other people that have driven it close to my height pull the seat a good bit forward from my position. And you might have to raise the seat a little to allow foot space under seat, I dont mind that at all.

Ride comfort is excellent. No complaints there whatsoever. As good as any car I've had to be honest

Enjoy the car Fitz

Interesting you say ACC is great on the M50. Is it your first car with traffic aware cruise or is the Renault system really that good?

Tesla ACC is too sharp on the stopping side, and too languid on the resuming side. Not a brilliant experience.

I had to drop herself to somewhere on Saturday and collect her later on so did a bit of efficiency test v Tavascan for the craic.....70km each way consisting of about 20kms motorway and 50kms B roads at about 90/100kmph and through 2 towns, warm weather and the R5 did 14.1 kwh/100kms. Long term (600kms!) it is at 14.2

I did it later in Tavascan at same speeds, same temperatures, expecting it to be quite a bit higher and it returned 14.8kwh. Long term since February and 8000kms is 17.6, more stop start traffic and colder weather with heating on.

Not scientific or conclusive but I thought there'd be a bigger gap. Maybe in town driving the R5 would use much less than Tavascan since its 700kg lighter for stop/start stuff.

Theoretical range in that kind of easy summer driving with no traffic and aircon set to very cold is about 360kms in R5 and 500kms in Cupra. I dont think there will be much more efficient types of journeys to get more.

Test drove another 5 today. Made up my mind I'm definitely getting one but can't decide which colour...yellow or black with red decals? Help me choose!

The salesman was pushing me towards PCP…I'm not sure

Red is my favourite colour in a car…pity it's not an option. That's why I thought black with red decals would be an acceptable compromise.

Most people here will say yellow or maybe green but you have to be comfortable living with such a standing out car, and many aren't.

I picked green myself, would have been very happy with yellow also but happy with my choice. I originally had white ordered and just thought I was missing out on the chance of having a very vibrant colour and I already have a white(ish) car so changed mid order.

When i picked up my green i saw a white there and thought it looked very classy.

Black roof and red strip a must in my view. I dont like the gold strip personally.

In order of preference

Green (this is only available in techno BTW, not iconic5 as apparently Renault dont think the green exterior and yellow exterior match well

Yellow

White

Midnight blue - best seller according to salesman but for me way behind the 3 above

Black - doesn't suit it in my opinion and I am done owning black cars and trying to keep them looking clean

Everything is fine it, on a par with Born really in every way apart from space in the rear and boot a bit smaller and a small bit down on power. It's about 300-400mm shorter

But driving it feels solid and not really a class down. Spec is decent, missing heated seats and wheel apart from top spec one which mine isn't.

Not missing much else id expect at the price. Physical buttons and 1 brilliant button to turn every single warning beeps and bongs off