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[Webby the Bear]

just come back from my hols. i hired a car for €35 a day. great price. not unlimited mileage but still enough for the very small island of thassos.

i was thinking kia picanto (as is normal out there) but ooooooh no no no. they give me this piece of junk.............



the hyundai atos. OMG! has anyone ever driven one of these? it looks awful. drives even worse. 2 good points were that it had electric windows (woooooo) and the steering was weighted quite well but in every other area its awful.

i did a quick search and even though they dont sell them anymore (replaces by the i10 i believe) it used to cost £6870 brand new???  how could they sell this?

[Webby the Bear]

ps the pic was from google and not the actual one i drove. i couldnt bring myself to be photographed with my one!!!!

[Crazycarzowner]

I had one when me & the misses went to Kos a few years ago. Horrible little thing, lacked power, really small & uncomfortable & halfway up a not so very steep hill it reduced us to about 20mph. If you turned the air-con on you had to 'get out & push it' to go anywhere.

[ninjapirate]

ive never driven one
but last year i was in cornwall when my fiat decided it wanted to go home early, so it did with AA and i hired a car.
the only thing they had left was a chevy Getz thing.
im 6ft4. and not slim. it was 800c auto of pure power, the size was ok for thrashing around the smaller lanes, but 6 hour drive home fully loaded, i basicly had my foot on the floor alllll the way.
it had some good points for a tiny city car. it should never leave one tho!

[TheBoy]

Having driven one, and the i10 (which replaced the Getz, not the Atos), they are not that bad. Its a cheap car, with cheap car refinements. The i10 is currently one of the cheapest cars in the UK.

I think the worse I've had as hire cars recently are Hyundai Matrix auto (manual would have been fine, engine too small for Cypriot hills ) and a new style Corsa (truely horrible engine, except on open motorway, almost undrivable around town).

[M]

lol

What a nightmare, crappest car I have ever seen......!!!

35 euro too.....that aint cheap......!!!

 

[Webby the Bear]

I had one when me & the misses went to Kos a few years ago. Horrible little thing, lacked power, really small & uncomfortable & halfway up a not so very steep hill it reduced us to about 20mph. If you turned the air-con on you had to 'get out & push it' to go anywhere.

you got that right mate. the biting point was right down low and the accelerator pedal seemed to depress about an inch! my foot was to the floor and it literally did nothing. i want to know who would buy this sad sorry car!

[TheBoy]

lol

What a nightmare, crappest car I have ever seen......!!!

35 euro too.....that aint cheap......!!!

 

'tis for day hire in a holiday resort

[TheBoy]

I had one when me & the misses went to Kos a few years ago. Horrible little thing, lacked power, really small & uncomfortable & halfway up a not so very steep hill it reduced us to about 20mph. If you turned the air-con on you had to 'get out & push it' to go anywhere.

you got that right mate. the biting point was right down low and the accelerator pedal seemed to depress about an inch! my foot was to the floor and it literally did nothing. i want to know who would buy this sad sorry car!

Trust me, the 2 mentioned above are far worse...

[Webby the Bear]

Having driven one, and the i10 (which replaced the Getz, not the Atos), they are not that bad. Its a cheap car, with cheap car refinements. The i10 is currently one of the cheapest cars in the UK.

I think the worse I've had as hire cars recently are Hyundai Matrix auto (manual would have been fine, engine too small for Cypriot hills ) and a new style Corsa (truely horrible engine, except on open motorway, almost undrivable around town).

about the replacement that clears that up 

[TheBoy]

And why is it me and my bro seem to hire villas up the side of a bloody big hill

[ninjapirate]

Having driven one, and the i10 (which replaced the Getz, not the Atos), they are not that bad. Its a cheap car, with cheap car refinements. The i10 is currently one of the cheapest cars in the UK.

I think the worse I've had as hire cars recently are Hyundai Matrix auto (manual would have been fine, engine too small for Cypriot hills ) and a new style Corsa (truely horrible engine, except on open motorway, almost undrivable around town).

how can the hyundai i10 replace a chevrolet getz? 

getz is now chevy spark (its replacment)

not sure what the i10 replaced, they didnt half sale well tho! 

[TheBoy]

Still, not as pig ugly as a Skoda Superb saloon (the estates aren't so bad).

[Webby the Bear]

lol

What a nightmare, crappest car I have ever seen......!!!

35 euro too.....that aint cheap......!!!

 

'tis for day hire in a holiday resort

yeah, 35 was the cheapest i found. for 60 i could have got a jimny. wish id have done that! lol

[TheBoy]

lol

What a nightmare, crappest car I have ever seen......!!!

35 euro too.....that aint cheap......!!!

 

'tis for day hire in a holiday resort

yeah, 35 was the cheapest i found. for 60 i could have got a jimny. wish id have done that! lol

They ain't all that either, esp thrashed hire ones. More powerful though