2011 60 plate Diesel manual.
A very pleasent driving experience.
Very comfortable,acres of space, lots of kit as standard.
Huge saving at nearly new price.
Highly recommend over more expensive,more establshed rivals.
We wanted a family car. Hmm I wanted a Range Rover, my wife wanted some tiny little thing, so we compromised on the Chevrolet Captiva. It does seem kinda cheap in places, but at least it's fairly rare, not too common, so you don't see too many others about. it was also pretty cheap second hand for what you get, maybe because people thing Chevrolets are all tacky American rubbish. This one seems a lot different to other ones though, just a bit more polished and less breaky.
Good points for a budget car like this include the parking sensors that it came with. That really helped with my wife's concerns about having a big car. My kids like the MP3 stereo.
The main fault we've had so far is that when you first start it up it seems fine, but then when you first try to move off it just loses power for a moment, which is pretty weird. It's not that dangerous if you know it's coming, but still pretty odd. Maybe they'll be able to fix it at some point in the future but I'm not too fussed about it for now.
It gets ok mileage, I'd say about high 30s MPG, which isn't amazing these days, but not too bad either. Actually I might expect better from a diesel, but anyway it's not too bad.
The Captiva is good on shaky conditions, snow and that. It's a good height as well so you can really see round you well. I don't tow anything but I'm thinking about it, and I reckon the Chevrolet Captiva will do it without too much problem.
Lots of space. The three kids get in the back just fine, and there seems to be space for them to grow into those seats a bit. The boot behind is really big too, we've had all our packing in there for holidays before. The back seats also fold flat, which I've found useful for work. It's a really big space back there then.