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Still on new-car (well. new-oldie) high!
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Hi all,
First, thanks for this forum which has helped us buy a good'un!
CandR are Carry and Richard, in Amsterdam, who drove a '97 ZX 1.9D happily for many years. It was doing fine even after nearly 250.000 until the heater blew coolant all over the electrics behind the dashboard. Hope someone is now pulling some worthwhile parts off it in a yard somewhere! So at last we had an excuse to get a Berlingo, which we've been wanting for a long time.
After frantic research including reading lots of threads on this forum, a stack of print-outs of ads from internet sites, we bought the second one we test-drove, and cancelled all the other appointments we'd made to drive others.
We've got a bright blue multispace, 2002. less than 100,000 miles, one owner, service history, looks almost perfect, drives perfect, no rattles, quiet, etc...... Just felt right to both of us.
Yes we know that the Mk2 is more comfortable and so on, but A: we're a bit impecunious, and B: we have always thought that the original Lingo design was special for a van, or later an MPV. It's neat, no pretentious bulges (Kangoo, etc.), without being boxy. We like to keep cars for a long time, and plan to keep this one going! Today I ® had my first drive to a job, on roads where I could push it a bit. Grinned all the way. When we ride together we keep nudging each other and smiling. Plus it's going to be great for the grand-kids, the elderly chums we often transport, and bags of cement for the ruin we've been gradually turning back into a house in Northern Italy (now at the stage of 'camping with a roof', as a friend put it).
I'm sure we'll come up against a few niggles in the future with a ten-year-old, so you'll hear from us....
You will have gathered that we both like cars. Carry learnt to drive in a 'Traction Avant', and my first motor was a Riley RMA. And up until now the best car we've had for the dirt track to the house in Italy was a bright red BX break 1.9D. We thought the ZX was a temporary replacement, but it just wouldn't stop!
This is too long, sorry - yes, still high!
Carry and Richard
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Still on new-car (well. new-oldie) high! - by CandR - 22-02-2012, 06:04 PM

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