My wife says the Plus 8 is comfortable! That must be a good recommendation.
Certainly on a long French trip recently I heard no complaints from her. And that included a couple of days driving in torrential rain and coping with more limited luggage space than usual.
Mid twenties mpg is typical on longer jaunts too.
Servicing is easy, as you seem to be aware of.
That V8 sound is hard to beat.
All in all I'm very sad that I don't have room to hang on to mine!
