My preference is saloon, not just because I have one, but most of my cars have been the (usually rarer) booted models, I prefer the seperate boot, faster to heat in winter, faster to cool in summer and more secure as well as the looks on bigger saloons are usually better.
Rear wiper, I can live without.
I have a feeling when I move in a few weeks, the saloon will be less practical than my Citroen C2 was, though...
Nah, the tourer has a nice line. I reckon the 7th gen tourer is the nicest looking of all the Accords from all gens :blink: .
But then I was raised on a diet of Volvo 240s and Volvo 740s (I love my square backends :lol: ), gig with large musical instruments and have a young child, so estates are really the only properly viable option for me. It's just a bonus they look so sweet .
I've never understood large hatches myself, Ford Focus sized - yes, but a Mondeo sized hatchback seems silly to me. It's a massive compromise, an estate is easy to stiffen because it's just a tube, a saloon, the same, because it's got the rear bulkhead or an area below the rear window where you could add a support, but hatcbacks have big wobbly holes in the back, can't carry much more than a saloon and just don't look the part.
Hmm, I think the saloon looks better, looks much more planted, although I am biased here, but my dad has the hatch version and I think it looks rather nice and it is much more practical.
I went for the hatchback. after ten years of saloons its good to have the practicality. Like the vtec power its nice to know its there when you need it.
I like the hatch, it has a nicer *** in my opinion plus I can actually get stuff in the back with the seats down - my old A4 saloon was a nightmare for lugging anything bigger than suit cases, whereas my hatch I can fit the base boards of my model railway in. Saying that, I've got the Xsara estate now so I could live with a saloon!
I have a roughly 20' by 4' layout that splits into several smaller boards. It was actually built professionally by a bloke called John Wylie when he authored a Haynes manual on the subject, I spotted it for sale in Portsmouth on eBay and just had to have it!!
I do like the tourers, but my only problem would be that they're too nice to use as a work horse I regularly fill the Xsara with stuff I wouldn't want touching the interior of a car I cared about! I've also promised myself that if I do buy a new car on finance it'll be a brand new CRV :wub:
