Well I had to hand the d4 back and I must admit I nearly shed a tear
Since then I have had in following order,
'10 ford focus estate 1.6 petrol
Horrible car, very slow and if used as an estate like I had to, even slower and thirstier, late 20's mpg wise! Very vague handling as well I thought.
'10 vauxhall vectra Sri cdti
Nearly as bad as the ford, found torque to be higher up th rev range than should be right for a diesel, seats made my legs ache more than the ford as well but plenty of lower down grunt let down by cheap standard fit tyres. And not too bad on juice, early 50's on a run over the hills but a bit raptly inside.
'10 ford transit 85 115 swb
A very marked improvement over the mid-late 90's transits I used to drive. Still felt like there was no turbo but a decent amount of low down shove that coped with being half filled with 30kg servers and a few desktops and tft's but would only just hold 50 with foot to the floor over the highest point of the m62 yesterday which was kinda fun! Oh and it had traction control as well! Never had that on a van before now
This brings me neatly onto our little swift

It's only major fault since Rachel got it has appeared on the past few weeks.
The SMS light would come on and not extinguish but instead cause random pimp home mode failovers.... It was initially looked at and the call out guy diagnosed cat or one of the lambda sensors failing as the pressure drop across the cat was out of allowed range. Went to first dealer in Scunthorpe and they cleaned the earthes up and them checked it and cleared fault. It was fine for a few days but then came back. Called Suzuki assist again and they came out and had a look again and then said to drive to dealer if I felt safe to do so and a hire car would meet me there. Fast forward 3 hours later and still no hire car after chasing hire company lots and no one could get hold of the depot. Later transpired that they had left said car at BMW about 1km away and not Suzuki.... Well next day they came with another car and an sorry. They bumped me up 2 groups and brought a just delivered Alda Guilietta 2litre jtd veloce to me

I was well chugged. Bad bit is Rachel now really loves the car and we have it until the swift is brought back to us. Needless to say since last Tuesday I've only chased Suzuki once
Next thing I have to do is sort out a shed for myself to get me through the summer till freelander 2 prices come back down. To this end I currently have been offered a tidy looking Xantia hdi 110 sx hatch '99 with 130k and loads of receipts and a few months tax and a week of eat for the massive asking price of 450. I'm tempted to get it tomorrow and then buy a local exclusive 2.0 petrol and strip it for parts like leather and alloys as no t&t and rattley cat have it currently offered to me for £200 which is a wee bit more than the price of decent leather! But should I really rip an exclusive apart even if it's cheap and a petrol or take the risk and test it and fix it up n flog on???