the best car i have owned its quick comfortable and a good looking car

THe x-type is all wheel drive, so the handling is really good. Nice ride, definitely made more for a female driver I would definitely say.

had problems with the door handles but other than that it was a really nice quite fast car

I had to drive one of these on company business so take a colleague to another store for his assessment on the company training programme.  Being the only company car on our site it was the only one I was legally allowed to drive for insurance purposes (can't complain at that eh?) but it was normally driven by the store manager, and at the time I drove it it was only 2 weeks old - talk about pressure!

It had nice and smooth comfortable ride, but the acceleration wasn't all that great - I think it was the base level 2.0 engine size.  I didn't like the clutch either, it was very springy and took a lot of effort to press with my foot - in fact if felt more or less the same as the clutch in my old Ford Orion!

I wasn't very comfortable with parking it either, it's much bigger than anything else I've ever driven and the bonnet is huge so it's hard to make out where the front of the car is.

One thing that does stick out in my mind from my experience of driving this is the look on everyone else's faces, you could see they were thinking "how can he afford that" bearing in mind that it was only a couple of weeks old, I was only 22 years old and I was wearing a Tesco uniform!  We couldn't resist taking it through the McDonalds Drive-Thru on the way back to our store though - naughty eh? lol