I had a S1 for just over 2years and on the whole the ownership experience was good. The car was generally admired and while not fast was good enough in todays over powered turbo days. However 2 areas that did sour for me, but both can be avoided I suspect.
Firstly, much of the public do not care for your property. I had incidents where returning to the car at a petrol station I found a bloke sat in it posing for pics with his mates. I had a member of the public at the Silverstone supercar Sunday event use her foot on the front splitter "to see what it was made out of" and at a car show I returned to find a woman standing her child on the running boards for pictures next to the car....further she was must put out when I told her not to stand her child on my car.
Secondly, the "Morgan tax" on repairs and the attitude of dealers. I had two dealers and both made me feel like a cash cow rather than a valued customer. Two separate incidents where repair bills were totally out of line with the actual fault and no discussion had taken place about solutions prior to starting the work or items were missed at service only to fail days later and insure duplicated cost.
I suspect the first area can be removed by never helping charity events? The second area only serves to reinforce my believe that before purchasing any mildly exotic/fancy car, form a relationship with the supporting garages.
