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Old Mar 26th, 2007, 08:33 PM   #16
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Quote: Originally Posted by popey (original)
I think air con is a must, this fact is shown by it been standard on almost all new cars.


Which new cars would those be? maybe those in Hot Climates but certainly NOT over here !!
That sounds just the admans talk to try & sell more unnecessary units to increase Profits.

But lets have a check ...

A - Alfa - Optional on 147 / 159 models, Standard on £20K+ models

B - BMW - Standard on most models {Except MINIs}

C - Citroen - Optional on C1 / C2 / C3, Standard on C4

D - Daihatsu -Amazingly Standard even on the £6000 Charade

F - Ford -Optional on Ka / Fiesta, Standard on Focus & above

Ok, I wont go on, but with a few {mostly Japanese} exceptions, it seems Air Con is still mostly seen as an optional extra, in this country at least, unless your spending out a lot of money.
I just find Air con very wasteful, sapping a lot of its energy on smaller cars at least, for very little gain. It coming very low down on my priorities list when shopping for a car in this climate.
Does it really costs £1300 as an option to put it on a ONE ?.. how come its only a £500 extra on Citroen`s, Peugeot`s, & Renaults ?
{Other than being French}

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