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Hyundai Trajet

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  • 01-12-2006 11:38am
    #1
    ladgie353
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭


    I have been looking at one of these recently.
    Does anybody have first-hand experience with one?
    Good points - bad points
    Thanks


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    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    A friend had one. It was cheap.

    Apart from that it had very little to make him happy.


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,399 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Colleague has one. Cheap compared to the competition. Does what it says on the tin

    Not a nice place to be in tbh but with a full load of screaming kids you probably won't even notice :)


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    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,164 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    unkel wrote:
    Not a nice place to be in...

    I was rear-ended in mine, by a Micra doing 40. I got a small bit of whiplash and 4.5k's worth of damage; his car was a complete write-off. He just bounced off me.

    Dull safety Vs. style? Gimme dull safety any day.

    Oh, and plenty of space for the screaming kids, too. :D


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,399 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Slow coach wrote:
    I was rear-ended in mine, by a Micra doing 40

    Just as well there were no children in the 3rd row of seats :eek:

    The Trajet has only a 3 star Euro NCAP safety rating. Most modern large MPVs now have 4 or 5 stars...


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    They make loads of sense second hand, but don't buy a new one. there's an entirely new model using the fantastic VGT CRDI 2.2 engine. It'll have sliding rear doors too.


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    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    A friend has one. He calls it the "Tragedy"

    Enough said


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    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,164 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    unkel wrote:
    Just as well there were no children in the 3rd row of seats :eek:

    The Micra never got close to the third row. A big impact, for sure, but no real damage to the interior.

    As for the NCAP, I fail to see how I would have come off better. That's really all that concerns me in a collision.


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    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,660 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Slow coach wrote:
    The Micra never got close to the third row. A big impact, for sure, but no real damage to the interior.

    As for the NCAP, I fail to see how I would have come off better. That's really all that concerns me in a collision.

    A big vehicle will nearly always do better in a two car crash with a small vehicle due to the forces of momentum. However in a single car accident when the large vehicle hits an immovable accident engineering and safety equipment become more important.


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