I rented a Vauxhall Insignia - I wanted a comfortable four seater intermediate to take my family on holiday and booked class IDMN - Intermediate Four-door, Manual, no aircon. Europcar, without offering a choice gave me the insignia - automatic box, hi performance turbo diesel engine, some kind of traction/four wheel drive, sat nav and aircon. The car seems to be designed to appeal to middle aged men who are insecure about their masculinity with its low racing car lines and swept back appearance. It's massively over-specified with gadgets, bells and whistles - and very very badly designed from the point of view of practicality and ease of use. You need to read the manual extensively to even begin to to figure out how to work the demister and climate control alone, and even then we couldn't get it to behave logically even after 2 days' solid use. You could either have the windscreen demisted or a comfortable climate in the care but not both. The seat and wing mirror adjustment are all electronic and a nightmare to use, with no manual override. The roof is low overhead and the windows are tiny and the feel for all occupants of the car is cramped. All round visibility for the driver is terrible - a safety deathtrap. Everything is electronic, the driver's cockpit is all boxed in with plastic mouldings on every side and there's no flat surfaces for puting down anything like a chocoltae bar or a mobile phone. The "infotainment" system is so complex it requires a separate manual. the halogen headlight beam is set "automatically" cannot be adjusted in height from within the car, so you end up blinding all oncoming traffic at night. The doors are so thick and wide and curved outwards that it's near-impossible to get out of the car in a multistorey car park, and the central moulded piece of rubbish spearating the driver from the front seat passenger makes it impossible for either of you to get out of the car on the opposite side. You'll see from the brochure that the car has a wonderful bells-andwhistles spec. But take it from me that the way the designers have implemented that spec is appalling. It's the absolute triumph of form over function. This is the most impractical car I have ever driven in the 40 years since i passed my test.