Now, before I hand back my forum keys, let me try to explain this, erm, choice. As I've talked about ad nausium, the reason I bought the RAV in the first place is to get the wife driving, short and tall was the request* and this seemed to git the bill. Unfortunately she never has driven the damn thing, I've been driving it myself though as it suits my back and the mere fact that I don't really care about it makes life a tad easier (unlike the Pug, which I'm loathe to take anywhere in case some arse damages it again.)
So a few months back I asked her what it would take to get her driving. last year she spent a fair amount of time with my family in GB and they're all driving automatics and the reckons that this would make it easier foe her to drive as it's a great deal less to think about. I quite like automatics myself. Also, while I would enjoy the experience of driving the RAV until it's dead, I'm well aware that I would be expected to fix it again, regardless of cost. So I've been keeping an eye out.
I've also been trying to expand my search to other makes as Croatia is quite a small market and automatic RAVs are few and far between. Unfortunatly between my back and the "must be shorter than an X-Trail" constraints all I've been managing to do is cross cars off the list. I was going to look at a Tiguan today, even though they're the same length as a, X-Trail I figured the less boxy shape might make one more acceptable.
And then this RAV came up at a dealer's in Zagreb. I'd link to the ad but it already seems to have been taken down (the guy did say he'd have a lot of calls on it but I just thought that was blether).
I took a few pics but I was expecting to be able to link to the ad. Ah well.
I think the colour is maybe chapaigne. Pff, it's glod as far as I'm concerned.
I could see one dent on it in the ad:
but IRL it has quite a few small dings in it, rather like.. oh my
I quite enjoyed this one:
Yeah, they work well don't they?
It's advertised at a 2009 but I knew it wasn't as they gave them a facelift in 2008, although I'd be willing to accept the usual "Coatia as dumping ground for all out of date stock" thing. I checked the VIN out and it's October 2008. It's still a deal cheaper than the other 3 advertised (all down the other end of the country) and the newest of them is a 2007. 10,800€, which coincidentally is exactly what I paid for the old one although this one has also done substantially fewer miles* (86,000km I think it was.)
I've told the wife that if she doesn't drive it I'm taking it up into the mountains and pushing it off a cliff.
Oh, the shame, the shame. At least it's not a VW.
The old RAV will have to go, tehnički expires in 2 weeks so I'll get it through that and see if I can get shot of the damn thing. Setting fire to it would, of course, be most enjoyable, but it'd leave a big mess to clear up.
thieving arseholes). We ordered it in big bills yesterday and they said after 10 today would be fine but we were there well after 10 and... no big notes, so it's all in 200s. That's (umm) 450 of them, you could get a good fire going with that lot. When we left twife's handbag looked like it was about to explode.
