Category: Large Family 
Price Range: £15,150 to £32,780
Good looking, feels like a high-quality item, strong image and good diesels.
Not the world's best petrol engines and manual gearbox a bit floppy, newer rivals better to drive, replaced in 2005.
Reasonable car but not as good as latest rivals. High feeling of quality and image means that it'll always find fans though. Petrol V6 and W8 models mostly pointless.
Feels very good inside, with plentiful soft-touch plastics and sturdy switchgear. Good instrument backlighting and interior ambience adds to the high-quality feel, too, while exterior shut-lines and bodywork quality is very impressive.
So, it feels very solid, but in truth it isn't quite as bombproof as you might think. It only has average repair costs and in some customer satisfaction surveys it only scores between average and poor scores.
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wrote on 06 06 2006