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Originally Posted by angie4m
If I had to chose I would have gone for the Citroen for the fact that I don't know anyone who has had any issues with a Citroen to date and my Sister has a Polo, on her second one after the first one kept repeatedly breaking down due to cracking cyclinders, they once went while in the outside lane of the ** luckily my Dad was driving and it was quite....that as well as the leaking seals made Vw buy the car back and give her another piece of crap! Yellow paint which has turned white, green & orange in places as well as leaking seals, crap service from the dealers, etc!
I'm sure the Citroen has its faults, but i've learnt that just because a car company had a good rep when I was younger that stands for F all now, same Sh*t, different car! Too much cost cutting going on.... I would have said that the VW would be more solid in an accident, but then the French were the first with the first 5 star Ncap cars!
Plus I bet the Citroen doesn't sound like a Diesel like the 1.2 Polo does - See yet another cost cutting measure, My Mum had the Polo before the current ones and it had a 1.0 16v engine and went much better than the new ones
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Totally agree with you angie - was just trying to point out peoples decisions re branding. most people go with the names they know or the names they've grown to rely on, not really caring or knowing about quality.
With regards to the Ncap ratings on french cars, I believe that it has something to do with Renault being one of the major players in joining into the as then non compulsory Ncap system but dont quote me on it. (unless i'm right of course!!!)