I
first drove an Alhambra, which was a company pool car on a trip to France.
I was pleasantly surprised how car like it was to drive. A bit later one
of my friends bought a Peugeot 806 and kept on about how useful it was.
Also the 406 wasn't the best tow car in the world, so I started keeping
an eye out in case anything turned up locally.
The trouble with people carriers is that they are expensive - much much more than a car of the same age that would have cost the same new. I watched the prices on ebay, and then one turned up locally. I went to see it, but must have been eating stupid pills because I missed loads of things that were wrong with it, like broken speaker grills, holes in the rear door trims, paint pealing of the roof, missing stereo trim (had it been a taxi?).
Anyway I bought it and found all the faults within the next 10 minutes.....
The car actually provided very good service. Nothing went wrong, it passed it's MOTs, was just as useful and versatile as I'd hoped, and towed extremely well. As an Alhambra (rather than a Galaxy or Sharan) it had loads of kit even though it was a base model - air con, cruise control, 6cd changer, and did better than 40mpg on a run. It was the 110bhp version - same VW engine as used in the Passat, A4, etc. It was quite nippy round town.
I sold it on because it's mileage was high (100k when I bought it, 130k when I sold it 2 years later), and I fancied another one with even more toys. I bought another that was just 9 months newer but with only 56k and FSH, but I certainly couldn't complain about this one.
The seaside photos are at Paul in Humberside, the sea being the river Humber!
Seat Alhambra - T688OAN
