That's good, at least.

I'm sure it'll be fine. It's just not very Gazchap. And since he gave his Celica to Jem I worry.

What did you do to it?

Have you had it powder coated and etc?

I did read back a couple of pages but couldn't find what happened to it.

I am seriously thinking about leasing an electric car.

Why? Do you use that much fuel a month?

About £100.

About £100.

How much is a lease of a milk float?

But that is £99 more than you spend on fuel a month?

There are some good deals at the moment. Found one for a Renault Zoe for £199 a month over three years for 8000 miles a year. Renault claim it does 250 miles per charge but real world tests say nearer 180. That would just get me to my parents in one go.

Cars aren't zero cost apart from fuel, dude.

I am excite. Money in the bank for a new car! After much deliberation over all kinds and makes I've narrowed it down. So we drove a 2010 Type R GT today and liked it, I love the way the engine starts to howl and just generally goes fucking mental but only after 6000rpm. It even had just enough practicality to work as the main car. BUT, it was all a bit rattly! Going over any bumps I could hear the plastic everywhere. I don't know if it was a bad one or I'm just too used to my old BMW which still feels solid and quiet, it's a shame because they're meant to be pretty bombproof where it really counts but I just cannot abide hearing trim pieces shaking about.

Off to look at a MK6 Golf GTI tomorrow and maybe another Civic. I think unless I hate it I'll probably end up with a Golf, though. One of those with the semi automatic gearbox should be fun enough when needed but still good trudging through traffic and hopefully feel a bit better put together. I just need to choose right because a new car is a rare thing for me, whatever I get I'll be keeping it for five or six years at least and by then cars will almost be banned in favour of self-driving electric travel-pods so I need to make it at least slightly fun.

So we looked at online reviews and asked for advice and did some research, and then chucked it all away and the missus ended up getting a little Ford StreetKa, and I will be commuting in the Kia. It's basically "My First Sportscar", and it's an older model and a bit wonky in places, but she's been hooning it around the local country lanes shouting "weeeeeeeeeeee!", so I guess it's doing it's job.

otherwise it'll be your mrs hooning around without you

Good luck with the test drives, hope you find a decent one.

Are you taking your planes with you to test room?

Might just run the Octavia for a few years and see what the state of play is with EVs then. Hopefully cheaper, better range and something bigger than the Zoe. The new Leaf would be pretty much spot on, but way too expensive currently.

Just managed 58.8mpg on the way home from work in the Yaris, and filled up the tank for just under £30. Big difference compared to the 5GT (which got around 38mpg on the same run, and cost nearly £90 to fill up!)

It's a long way short of the supposed 85.6mpg that the Yaris Hybrid can get, but I expected as much - and anything over the BMW's consumption is good to me.

A petrol hybrid doing 60mpg is still better for the environment than a diesel doing 60mpg.

Just managed 58.8mpg on the way home from work in the Yaris, and filled up the tank for just under £30. Big difference compared to the 5GT (which got around 38mpg on the same run, and cost nearly £90 to fill up!)

Oh yeah, of course. If that's your main reason for switching. I would like to reduce my carbon footprint for sure. It's just too expensive at the moment.

I really liked my EP3 but no aircon and the fact it was bonkers loud and I kept getting people looking at me made me decide to get rid.

Correct choice IMO, and as you mentioned a few posts back, the era of Golfs you were looking at have all kinds of known issues with them, some of which can be fairly pricey to sort out, or just a pain in the arse, or both. (As do loads of German cars, they're so overrated.)

The Civic is basically bombproof, I had that generation of Type-R myself and it was a fine car - (and have owned many Hondas over the years, they pretty much just don't go wrong) - not exactly a luxurious interior but whereas VW would give you nice soft-touch materials on the inside and a load of important stuff that would break, the Civic is more concerned with working day after day, month after month, year after year.

Ah, quite a bit. It's nearly six years older now.

It's always going to be six years older.