ANTARA OWNERS??

it looks like beefed up zafira wouldnt like to take it off road it might break

Well People, I got a Chevrolet Captiva LTZ today (Rebadged Antara). Top of the range, full spec, from the insurance while they paint the V6 rear bumper. :dance:

Ive taken out the additional insurance £5/day, it now qualifies for zero excess. So me finks that opens things up a bit for a wee play without worrying about scratches

. I First thing i checked was the size of the tyres

...Dammit 18`s, ah well. Will give it a good "C" ing to & report back over the weekend

See comparison to the Kuga as been mentioned in this post. My neighbour bought the Kuga and paid the extra for the 4 wheel drive option - apparently 2WD is standard. He was saying that the 4WD is a Swedish design gizmo that is used by Audi. Seems it works via traction control - no solid rear axle that will put up with off road abuse - only thin CV drive shafts so my thinking is would that mean butter front diffs on both front and back - the joys. Whether that's right who knows.
As with all modern designs, I wouldn't mind betting the same sort of design will be found across all similar vehicles - same bloke, different hat.

not very reliable, four visits for software updates and expensive new headlamp looking to sell mine and find a frontera.

tow caravan so looking for reliability and good mpg

getting 32 with van on it 36 without

any experience of frontera mpg appreciated

antara 2.0cdti ex demo 2008

the kuga is a bodge it and scarper 4wd system. the two and 4 front drive is identical but the rear drive part is a bolt on txfer box sending power to the rear diff. which is completely computer controlled. ok if you getting a bit of rain and maybe some slush but not much use otherwise

it is based very closely on cmax which it shares its front subrame among other things. to give it its increased stance ford have basically used a body lift kit on it to lift the body off the subframes

another chance to post this

where is this i want a go :dance:

Germany

sod it

I started off taking it easy, then went into some marsh stuff, it coped with it really well (L200 was spinning around in it) started taking some pics day 1

uploaded these. Over the next 10 days i was right over the back of the fields (Very wet lately) even into places where the quad s been struggling. it was faultless, when i went to upload the pics my HTC froze (now away for new screen)so no doubt i will lose everything on the phone :axe:

Never mind.The car hire man look puzzled when he saw the mud on the tyres & sides :lol:

The pics were never as good as the video Andy posted....Never thought it would have been that capable though :shock:

Very Good machine.... still prefer my v6

they using antara in dakar or used one saw article about it

yeah once i saw one at dealers i felt same vehicross for me