‘You connect. It becomes part of the family’
KATHLEEN TOPLEY ‘We’ve had our Stepway for nearly four years now. It was not an impulse buy, it was the sort of thing where you thought, we’ll just go and have a look at it. But you just know, when you connect with a car.
‘We had a Vauxhall Corsa, but before that we had a Freelander and before that a Range Rover, so we’ve been through quite a few different cars. My husband’s a motor mechanic anyway so every car has to reach a certain standard. Of all the cars we’ve had, he’ll say this Stepway is the favourite.
‘I think when you get one of these cars, you get a connection with it where it becomes part of the family. Everybody can drive it, you can get the family in and you can get everything in the back, too. It serves every purpose that you want out of a car.
‘You can put your own personality on it. You don’t actually see quite so many names like we’ve done printed on the front, but that shows the sort of connection you get.
‘Mechanically it ticks all the boxes, but I’ll get into it and say “come on Lilly, take me home”.
‘I like the steering; it’s not light, it’s easy. And it tells you when to change gear.
‘It’s a basic, affordable car, for people that want to be able to drive a car that doesn’t drive them. [It’s not a car where] you press a button and wait for it to start – those sorts of silly gadgets are nice but not necessary.
‘There’s not a lot of difference to [my Stepway]. The grille, they’ve modernised it, they’ve made it look nice, I’d love to see the front of my car look like that. They’ve improved it somewhat and they’ve brought it more up to date but it’s still a Dacia.’