Got it today - first thoughts

[SiM22]

Im glad you are enjoying it...just remember that yours in unique, rather doubt there is one exactly the same ;-)

[Stef]

Hi Stef, Sorry to hijack but do you have any pictures of your car as i want to see what this looks like in the flesh.

Not yet, delivery isn't until the end of April, this is what the configurator shows it like though............................



Stef

[Fuds]

Hmmmm very nice we have configured ours with a black roof and mirrors but yours looks very kool!
I never thought picking a colour could be so blooming difficult!!1

[Bigfeet]

The name Manitoba grey is a bit misleading, the colour is really green.

The configurator doesn't show the colour correctly either, I did post some pictures of a C3 in this colour on another thread.

[Stef]

I saw a DS3 in Manitoba at the dealers, albeit with a black roof. At first I really wasn't sure about the colour, but the more I walked around it looking at it both in and out of the sun, the more I liked it, definitely has a lot of green in it but I like the way it blends to the darker grey in the shadows!

Stef

[irishRob]

Picked up the car this afternoon. First impression was a slight shock, manitoba grey is more like green in the flesh (so to speak) and doesn't go quite as well as I expected with the carmen roof - oh well, I guess I'll get used to it!

Plus, you won't see the body colour from the inside of the car anyway fella and that's where you'll spend most your time. You'll get used to it as you said, and you'll love it.

[telephoneman]

Plus, you won't see the body colour from the inside of the car anyway fella and that's where you'll spend most your time. You'll get used to it as you said, and you'll love it.

I'm loving the inside anyway, particularly the carmen red dash! Just burnt an mp3 disc and used the cd for the first time - impressed! Being used to the 15 speaker Harmon Kardon (or whatever it's called) in the lexus I was ready to be disappointed but I thought the sound was pretty good.

[edryn80]

I'm amazed with the range when full as well. And the 'NIL' on the tax disc. And the £358 rebate the insurance company just sent me!

[ZACK]

And the £358 rebate the insurance company just sent me!

Jammy Get !

[studly]

I was surprised at the performance of the hdi 90 aswell, granted it's no speed machine but i didn't buy a diesel to go hoofing it around everywhere I'm currently getting 58.8mpg which is a mix of town and b roads for my daily trip to work compared to the 30-36 i was getting in my previous swift sport which was a reasonably nippy warm hatch.

[pauljack]

I was surprised at the performance of the hdi 90 aswell, granted it's no speed machine but i didn't buy a diesel to go hoofing it around everywhere I'm currently getting 58.8mpg which is a mix of town and b roads for my daily trip to work compared to the 30-36 i was getting in my previous swift sport which was a reasonably nippy warm hatch.

i always fancied a swift sport what was it like?

[studly]

It was a pretty nice car tbh, handled well but it was a reasonably high revving engine which meant at 70 on the motorway you'd be doing over 4000 rpm and redlined at 7250rpm ...oh and it bloody rattled like a trooper on uneven roads, suspension wasn't as hard as a clio renaultsport but it didn't arf feel like you went down a crater if you hit a pothole. The DS3 1.6 vti is pretty much the same in performance as i was tempted to get that but the economy of the diesel won me over especialy as the sport was running on super unleaded.

Sorry for hijacking the thread