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.
Fuel economy is very good on the diesels, no better than average on the manuals, while repair and servicing costs will only be average, too.
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wrote on 06 06 2006