Faults:

Pin-sized hole in the coolant pipes.

General Comments:

Superb car - apart from a tiny hole in the coolant pipes. The Citroen Garage couldn't spot the problem, offering instead to replace the cylinder head gaskets, it took my dad's mate to spot the problem and fix it for £20.

Apart from that, this car has run amazingly, no breakdowns, no trouble, superb little city car (just last week I beat an Audi TT at every traffic light along Glasgow's Saughie Hall Street).

The main negative points are that you cannot get the acceleration up at higher speeds for safe overtaking on country lanes, and the seats are so uncomfortable you get a really bad back driving for more than a few hours at a time.

It also seems to have been broken into very easily - but being such an unimpressive vehicle, all that was stolen was a tin of beans in the driver side door pocket..

(I regularly return to the car to find a note on the dashboard asking me to go to the local plod station, as keys were left in door/ignition)

Faults:

When I bought it, I had to return it to the dealers to get the drive shaft replaced, and the speaker had blown.

Within the past couple of years, I have had to spend a lot of money. This included: Fixing rear suspension, Drive shaft (again), clutch assembly, indicator switch replaced, thermostat needed replacing, head gasket blown.

General Comments:

It is getting old, and much of this is to be expected. It was an excellent first time buy, but since they stopped making them in 1997 make sure you get it checked over if you want to buy one!

Servicing is cheap compared to newer makes and models of car (no on-board computer to get fixed!)

It does around 50mpg

Faults:

When I got it, it needed 3 new tires, small panel under drivers door needed spraying and the engine was quite dirty.

General Comments:

After what I thought would be a serious "Downgrade" from a 2.0 cavalier I was taken completely by surprise. Firstly it only cost £1000 for a P reg car, it has a full GT body kit, it has remote central locking electric windows, bucket seats, nice interior, a rev counter, body coloured bumpers and looks really sporty with 5 spoke alloys, a GT spoiler and a headlight conversion.

Next is the sound of the engine, I was expecting it to sound like a screaming 1.1 peugeot 106 but after 3000 revs it has quite a "throaty" sound and can be further enhanced with a K&N air filter, which makes it sound cool.

Then there is the fuel economy, after totally killing the engine, it still chucks back 30+ mpg. Couldn't believe I was putting £25 for a full tank and getting 300+ miles.

The Speed!! Will kill a cavalier 2.0 probably all the way up to 60. Will leave my mates Novas SRI at the finish line. I have owned a peugeot 106 1.1i and the Ax is just some much faster (even though they have the same engine, the pick up at 60mph is incredible, will do 110 top speed, probably touch 60 in 11 seconds, possibly less.

Downers, it is made of plastic and cardboard, dints just by wind resistance, accidently nocked the side skirts of it.