I’ll be off car hunting tomorrow …
MoT time is looming – for non-UK people, that’s an annual test that all cars have to take to prove that they’re roadworthy. I’ll need to spend money on mine again for essential repairs and I’ve had the car for over 7 years now. Time for something newer with fewer miles and more toys.
I’m looking at a slightly bigger one next time, as Ford have seen fit to discontinue the rather excellent Puma. Probably something to do with also retiring the Fiesta, which donates the underlying bits for the Puma. The new Fiestas are a little small and the place I’m going to doesn’t have anything interesting (i.e. has power+toys) apart from a Focus ST170. There’s a few interesting Renault Meganes there but there’s two problems with those :
1- The arse of the Renault Megane is not something I want to be looking at in the morning.
2- Internet research suggests they have very questionable reliability
We’ll see what we find tomorrow, hopefully this Focus will be in good shape. It definitely looks like the valets have given it a good polish.
PS Going for a Focus also means IpodFM stays viable 🙂 My sister also has IpodFM but it doesn’t work too well in her MR2 because she can’t remove the aerial.