Adrian
Peter, until you drive a bigger car with plenty of grunt you have no idea what they are like. The best all round car I have ever driven for being easy to drive and excellent at speed and in A and B roads was a Vauxhall Carlton. I've driven big, small, weedy and very very poky cars. The Carlton was a huge barge *but* it had lots of torque (you won't know about that yet, with the cars you've driven), and being a GSi it had firmer suspension than standard. All made for a very easy fast drive, and totally effortless motorway cruising.
Accept that you just don't know about anything except your underpowered, tiny, revvy Sei. It's not a slur, it's just you lack experience. If you really want to spend 7K on a car you owe it to yourself to get as much experience as you can driving a much wider variety of cars before deciding.
And I know you are used to being alone in your views on here by now, but I doubt you'll find many people on here who would *ever* buy a brand new car. For very sound financial reasons.
oh bollocksSorry to hear this (hi by the way, don't think we've met) If you get a fat...
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