Adrian wrote:
Doctor Drivel ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

They also drive like a dream.

Certainly I think I was only dreaming about any connection from the
steering wheel to the front wheels on the one that I drove - although
the noise levels and poor ride would certainly have woken me up in
short order.

You made that up.

No, I test drove it from Andrew Rowley Toyota, near Radlett, Herts.

You still made it up.

Why do you refuse to accept that anybody's opinion may differ to your own?

I most certainly *did* test drive one, a silver T-Spirit, and I posted my
opinions immediately afterwards in a thread that you were participating in.

It was massively unimpressive. The handling was uninspiring. The ride was
standard Japanese over-firm and under-damped. The road noise was hugely
outclassed by today's standards - and poor by those of a decade ago. If you
accelerated slowly enough to keep it in ZEV mode, grannies in automatic
Metros would overtake, but if you thraped it any, the engine noise was
intrusive. Headroom in the front was OK, in the back was insufficient for
an adult. The boot was far too shallow to be usable.

Oh, and the fuel computer reported mid-30s mpg for my 30-45 min mixed-road
testdrive.

I got back in my 10yo Cit XM, and was immensely glad.

Then I had to spend a week fending off calls from over-eager sales muppets.

They can't give em away these days. Shades of the Sinclair C5.