It’s getting towards the time when I need to start thinking about the next car I will get. Need to order it about September time to collect in February 2008. At present I drive a Renault Laguna that I rent from a leasing company on a 3 year contract. Basically a company car but rather than the company managing it I deal directly with the leasing company. I like this way to finance a car. There is no deposit, no final payment. Just 36 payments over 3 years and then the car goes back to the leasing company. Plus the contract is a full service agreement that covers all parts and labour plus tyres, wipers etc. In other words no risk. For the next car I’ve been looking at:
The Hyundai was ruled out when I sat in one. Even with the seat fully back it was still a bit to small for me (I’m about 183 cm tall). The Honda would be good for the environment etc. but I don’t like the body shape. So that leaves the Mazda and the Renault. I really like the current Laguna. I’ve been driving the current models for the last 5 years (I had the same model as a company car before the current leased one). When researching the options I found out that there is a new Laguna due to be announced on June 4th. There is a teaser web site available. Some artist impressions on the 4-door and new 2-door coupe versions have appeared as well:
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Wow. Really nice. The Coupe especially, but even the 4-door model. Rumour has it the Coupe is not going to be available until August 2008. which means that it’ll be too late for me this time. I can live with the standard 4 door one. So, if the impressions above turn out to be accurate it’ll be another Laguna for me! The RX-8 is nice but it drinks petrol and oil like it’s going out of fashion apparently. I don’t want to have to nursemaid an engine by constantly having to check the oil. History tells me I won’t do it.
