Indestructible (Peugeot 309)

Member Name: radish

Product:	Peugeot 309
Date:	06/09/08 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Reliable, simple

Disadvantages: Slow, ugly

i drove a Peugeot 309 for years. My Mum bought it from new back in 1988 and the car was passed to me and my brother when we learnt to drive.

What can you say. It wasn't exactly a looker. Ours was bright red, with a gold go faster stripe and a sunroof. The interior was practical grey but still seemed to show all the stains. It was only a 1.3 so was slow, slow, slow. 0-60 was a long time, probably about 15 secs. syaing that it would quite happily propel you to above 90 if you really wanted it to.

For all it's downsides I loved that car. It was absolutely indestructible and it ran without much in the way of serious incident for 17 years until I got rid of it. Sure there were a few minor problems here and there but it was so simple that even I, with no mecahnical skill, could keep it going. It was a decent size, with a massive boot and was ridiculously cheap to insure.

When I got rid of my 309 it was the oldest car of any of my friends and went a lot better than most of their newer cars. I scrapped it in the end as I couldn't bring myself to sell it to anyone else and I could afford something new and sparkly. I miss it though.

Summary: I miss my 309

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