PRI-DAH!
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 9:47 pm
Last summer I was covering about 450 miles a week in a 250k Eunos. I was enjoying it, but it appeared to others to be silly, and it was getting a little frilly.
Plan A: Replace rotten MX5/Eunos with something which can tick both 'fun' and 'practical' but is still . Plan A was enacted last September and I was happy resigned to driving this everyday.
Since April I've been commuting to Newcastle instead of Stockton, which means crossing a couple of valleys, mostly in 30 limits. Surprisingly enough, where my Impreza excelled at three-lane A roads in the early morning, it's starting to become a little tiresome crawling up Whickham bank and still getting through a tank of fuel just on the commute even though it's only covering 2/3rds of the distance. SWMBO threw out £1800 in fuel receipts that I was putting off figuring out the consumption from. Clearly, a plan B was required.
Plan B involved a small car which can be used mostly just for getting to Newcastle and back, leaving the pretzel for long journeys, camping holidays and wintery weather. SWMBO has a 1.0 K11C, which has dull steering and is slow, but fabulously economical.
What I really wanted was a bubble shape Rover 220 diesel. I idly gazed at an alternately coloured forum, where members have been providing an opportunity to lose money on the lottery without any going to charity, on the 1/49 chance you have to drive some old car home afterwards. I failed to win a Peugeot 305 or an R8 214.
Having decided I needed to actually buy a car, I thought I may as well buy one sight unseen from a shit description and a shit picture.
Still, at least it was only 230 miles away. PART TWO IMMINENT.
Plan A: Replace rotten MX5/Eunos with something which can tick both 'fun' and 'practical' but is still . Plan A was enacted last September and I was happy resigned to driving this everyday.
Since April I've been commuting to Newcastle instead of Stockton, which means crossing a couple of valleys, mostly in 30 limits. Surprisingly enough, where my Impreza excelled at three-lane A roads in the early morning, it's starting to become a little tiresome crawling up Whickham bank and still getting through a tank of fuel just on the commute even though it's only covering 2/3rds of the distance. SWMBO threw out £1800 in fuel receipts that I was putting off figuring out the consumption from. Clearly, a plan B was required.
Plan B involved a small car which can be used mostly just for getting to Newcastle and back, leaving the pretzel for long journeys, camping holidays and wintery weather. SWMBO has a 1.0 K11C, which has dull steering and is slow, but fabulously economical.
What I really wanted was a bubble shape Rover 220 diesel. I idly gazed at an alternately coloured forum, where members have been providing an opportunity to lose money on the lottery without any going to charity, on the 1/49 chance you have to drive some old car home afterwards. I failed to win a Peugeot 305 or an R8 214.
Having decided I needed to actually buy a car, I thought I may as well buy one sight unseen from a shit description and a shit picture.
Still, at least it was only 230 miles away. PART TWO IMMINENT.