Originally Posted by andyl

I'm with your wife on this one Gary. I've got a Micra as a courtesy at the moment and it's an awful, miserable little car. Rattly, cheap and nasty. Makes a horrible gurgling noise on start up, constant rattle when driving and the steering is impossibly light. And for the record, I'm certainly no petrolhead - I drive a Scenic normally. I like the sound of the Fabia - bit bigger but spec looks very good, build quality excellent and said to hold value. You can pick up a year old 1.4 Fabia for about £6k - in same ball park as the Micra.