[RoyMacDonald]

A main dealer should provide a loan car for a weekend test. Our local one does anyway.

The D2 is perfectly adequate but I've tried the D3 and that was awesome. The D4 would be even better.

I heard the chassis was designed for British roads by a couple of Swedish rally drivers. Feels like that to me. I tried a sharp 90 degree right hand turn at 50mph but couldn't make it skid, hurt my wrists turning the steering wheel so hard though so I won't bother trying that stunt again.

I like lots of torque so always go for the diesels myself. All the cars I've tried have been automatics.

I'd say the Geartronic in the D3 was smoother than the DSG autobox in ours but I'm not complaining about either. You can have flappy paddles if you think you will want to take over from the computer. The clutch is a thing of the past as far as I am concerned.