We picked up our new (secondhand) car yesterday. A Toyota Corolla VVTi GS. It's my wife's car really so I haven't really driven it apart from the test drive. I love getting a new car and buying new car mats and accessories. You have to "move in" to a new car and make it your own don't you? Rather like moving into a new apartment or house I think. We're still working out the stereo and all the lights and seat adjustments. But we like this car, its nice and simple to drive and has a good boot size. For the last six months my wife has not had a clock on the dash that worked, so just the little improvements like a dashboard clock, a boot light, levers that open the boot and petrol cap and we're "Wow!". It's great fun!
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Does a car sear, half a ton of "travel toys" and bits of plastic that you are sure you need but cannot remember what for also a part of this apartment-alisation of cars because then our car is more like an extension on wheels than an actual car.
Nice car you got there..very shiny looking...Our car is definitely an extension of our home.. stroller, carseat.. baby toys.. and kleenex aand anytime we go out for long periods of time them all the other baby gear...we have a 2 door Cavalier.. kinda small for 5 people and a yappy dog...
you can tell you haven't done many miles FW, you can still see out the windscreen although I think you live down south somewhere with cleaner roads, paved with gold n' all. it is nice to get a new car though, just to sit in it and inhale the stuff they treat the upholstry with. take care of it won't you
I love how the steering wheels are on the other side. You have to be rebels, don't you? ;)
It's a really nice car, I'm excited for you guys! And there's nothing like the smell of new matts in a car.
No matter how you get the seats straightened out, though, if a mechanic has to work on it, they'll never readjust the seats to where you first had them.
That looks like no Corrolla that I have ever seen. They look completely different in the U.S.
Someday I want to learn how to drive a car with the steering wheel on the right rather than the left, just so I can say I know how to do it.
Eliza: It's only a matter of time before the new car has that familiar smell of rotting food that the kids have dropped on the floor in the car!
Babybull40: Yep, a 2 door doesn't sound big enough to be that house extention!
Arthur: Clean roads? Paved with gold? Have you ever been to Luton? Nah, we're just hoping that we don't lose a wing mirror as a van or boy racer scrapes past the cars down our road!
Tara: Seat adjustments are funny aren't they? Someimes I won't notice anything until I've been driving a few miles and then I'll realise that the seat is adjusted for my wife. I guess I'm lucky I don't have to adjust it too much for me, I'm just a little bit taller than she is.
Rachel: I've driven a right hand drive in France and it feels wrong at first but you quickly get used to it. Roundabouts are the worst though - I just couldn't get used to them. I don't think you have those in the USA do you?
What's an "FWMobile?" Trying to figure out what it means. Four-wheel drive?
Aw, hell. Probably specific to you. "Furtive Wrangler" mobile.
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