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My hire 'car'
So I've got this auto hire car booked through work for the next 2 weeks, we get really cheap hires so I've got a 1.6 auto focus ordered.
However apparently they didn't have any available so I get home to find for the same price I've got this;  Chrysler Grand Voyager 2.8 Executive Which is like driving the worlds most expensive Van, or pimp mobile as it's now been named 
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09-04-2008
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Nice!
I get a hire car every week, to travel to Uni. This week, is another SKODA ROOMSTER! wooooohooooo. 1.4 tdi, 3 Cylinder!
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09-04-2008
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Cancelling the hotel for kiddy then dan
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09-04-2008
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Wow thats cool, is it rear wheel drive? The older models were.
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09-04-2008
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09-04-2008
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Lol, I give you very good price if you ring me direct next time, I no charge extras
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09-04-2008
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from what I remember from looking at MPV's..... you need to be an oil baron to afford to run the beast...
Is that the one with the drop down DVD Screen Dan?
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09-04-2008
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No DVD player I'm afraid, you know I could easily pit out of the thing, fold 1 seat down as a table. It is actually bigger than my garden shed inside, not joking.
I pay a set rate of fuel back to the company so it actually doean't matter how much fuel it uses. It's also 4 power points (cigarette lighters) in it which is handy ???
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We had a few of these for work. They got trashed very quickly with us chucking flight cases in and out. I suppose the old saying "You never wax a rental car" stands true here though. Two of the manual ones needed clutches and one needed a gearbox if I remember but the Auto ones were fine.
We had a few fitted out with racks inside but the balance made them scarey to drive round left hand corners. Ariel mounts and camera mounts on the roof made them noisey too but I liked them. If I was buying one I think that would be the one I would go for. Mind you the Kia is well spec'd out I but dont have any experience of them at all.
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10-04-2008
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the Kia is crap, the interior looks like it has done a 100K miles within 10k, even my Renault Espace interior looks better than a two year old school run savaged Kia, the Kia is just cheap, cheaper than the Chrysler.
If I were to buy an MPV, it may well be the Chrysler as they are cheap, but to be honest, I would have the VW Transporter.
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17-04-2008
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Whats the Miles per gallon like on your pimp wagon Dan?
I get 230 miles on a full tank on my car, so wonder how good it is.
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On the first tank, 24 mpg, on the 2nd when i tried to drive nice, 28mpg
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Update
I was talking to an ex colleague at the beginning of the wk who I know had a Voyager. What I didn't know was he bought it off the fleet guys when his was handed back cuz he liked it so much. It seems that 10 were procured to be distributed round the regions. I think it was 6 normal and 4 Grand Voyagers Of the ones that needed gearboxes! One was reported (serviced by Chrysler dealers) to have been abused and the other (rumor has it) had never seen a drop of oil from the day it was manufactured. The clutch problems seemed to have been only the cars that had been fitted with tow bars and had been used to drag all kinds of gear out of fields etc. Of the ten we had , one was stolen within a few wks of having it and two were written off in accidents. It seems that three came with rubber floor covering and vinyl type seats. I never saw these ones and didn't know you could have that as an option but maybe other markets outside of the UK offered that. Apart from the normal things like disks on 2 cars and brake pads My friend doesn't recall any other problems. As most of them were returned after 18 months / two years (before they were replaced) it doesn't give much of a long term guide. You will get people write and say they have had one for like four years and never had to put a spanner on it and I don't doubt that however we are not talking about a careful owner driver here. We are talking about different drivers and lots of different uses but the word on the street is they did OK.
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