Test Drive Insurance - Never Heard of This

pompeyrich

DoaM wrote: »

Is that a typo and should say 1.9? A 1 litre engine (especially with a DSG auto box) in an Octavia (i.e. VW Passat) sized car is going to accelerate like treacle.

0-62 mph in 9.9 secs, top speed 126 mph doesn't sound too bad. Link to Auto Express review HERE

Cornucopia

A lot of new petrol engines are quite small these days. This engine is 3 cylinder, and that's becoming quite common.

There's a fantastic 1.2 Turbo Petrol/130bhp engine that's used across the whole PSA group (Peugeot/Citroen/Vauxhall/Opel).

Renault have a 0.9 petrol engine that I've never driven, but assume is okay.

Car_54

NBLondon wrote: »

It's a paper licence - it has the (expired) endorsements written on it. It's a good few years since I hired a car and every other time I've driven a dealer's or manufacturer's car - the licence was enough - that includes driving up the Goodwood Hillclimb at the Moving Motor Show. Plus the licence already has a unique reference on it - I'd always assumed that could be checked by insurance companies if needed.
Looking it up afterwards - you're right. And in the world where a licence could be stolen or people only carry the photocard it makes sense. And had the dealer bothered to tell me this when I booked "Please can you go online and get an authorisation code for us" - I could/would have done it. As it was - the salesdrone went into "computer says no" mode and couldn't explain why she asked for personal information that wasn't relevant to the reason I was there other than "it's a new rule". So they lost the chance to convince me it was better than my current car.

So, a paper licence that's at least 20 years' old, with no photo. Are you really surprised that they wanted to check further?

Your paper licence remains valid, but I think you'll find it viewed with increasing suspicion by car hirers etc. as time goes on. Especially abroad.