Gladstone:
I was braced to hear Porsche SUV which is not a bad thing and still in the Porsche family. Then I hear that SWMBO approved of a 911 ! Pleasantly surprising alteration to the expected story line.
Hi Gladstone, as mentioned we looked at many alternatives from many manufacturers, my wife who has hip issues would have found the step up into an SUV too high, we looked very seriously at a Macan, just as well as one of the options we looked at was something completely different, totally unsporting but very comfortable and unbeatable reliability was a Lexus RX450h, but we don’t need a vehicle as big and unwieldy as that. We tried BMW’s various models but again she finds the seats uncomfortable, she doesn’t even really get on too well with the seats in our daily drive Golf GTI, and I was disappointed with the comfort after a long drive to see my daughter and first grandchild recently. Volvo much like Lexus have zero driver appeal, but all the reviews state how unreliable they are, in fact the XC-90 is the UK’s most unreliable new car according to a Which? survey of owners, born out by the horrendous experience we had with a Volvo that was my daily drive pre Golf. And even worse, Volvo are Chinese owned. We know that the 14 way Porsche seats are fine, we had them a while back in our much loved second Boxster, and the 18 way seats in the 911 have even greater adjustability with the side bolsters. When we went down to look at the 911 last week we spent a very long time ensuring access and egress was easy, assuming at some stage she may have a hip replacement, exceeding a 90 degree angle is not an option, the wider opening doors and the seats running much further back than they did in the Boxster resolved that issue and combined with the much better ride quality sealed it for us. I never thought that the 911 would be so adaptable or comfortable to be honest, even before trying one I thought it would be a real long shot. All’s well that ends well as they say!
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