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Would have been my preferred vehicle last time round, except for the fact that I left it to the last minute (as usual) and couldn't source one quickly enough. Not to mention that with St Andrews soon to be named Speedbump City, and the perennial taxi rank chaos meaning damage to the car is a lot more of a worry than it should be, in a way I'm glad I got the smaller and cheaper Octavia saloon.
But it's also the mild hybrid TSI DSG, although a slightly older model and only the 1.0 engine. But in terms of the basic engine, power train etc, probably very similar to yours.
I do like it though, although everything's that much snugger than my old Passat estate in terms of space. But it took me ages to get used to it, and a lot of the tech and gadgetry just spoils it too much, in my opinion.
Could chunter on for hours about it all, but, you know...
Not sure what you mean by the automatic safety braking, precisely, though. I've got that, although maybe not quite the same thing, and it's never activated in normal driving, although very occasionally it makes a loud beeping sound if if there's traffic up front suddenly at a halt, for example, and I'm coming up to it fairly closely, and reasonably quickly.
Although it's never actually applied the brakes - just given a loud audible warning
Only caveat to that is that on a very small number of occasions the brakes have come on very suddenly and fiercely when I've been
reversing at very, very low speed while manoeuvring around the back of the rank mess. Which has made me jump, and wonder what's wrong, and thinking there's a fault with the car.
Not sure precisely what's happened, but I'm guessing the reversing sensors have
very suddenly detected something other than via the normal reversing beeps (or they
think they've detected something) and applied the brakes automatically. Which even at 3mph or so just feels way over the top
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