New Car on the Way

After looking through my recent posts, I feel I am falling into the negative thought processes again, so I thought I would throw in a positive post for a change.

After three looooong years of owning BMWs, we have finally gotten rid of both of them. BMWs are just not for us. From the moment we bought our first one, a 316 touring (second hand) they have just cost us soooo much money. Money we could have put to something of much better value then just cars. Not to mention in the town we live in, they appear to be targets for every greasy dickhead that walks past them. They have cost us a lot of money fixing the results of these anti-social weed rodents.

So, we have now bought a new Nissan NOTE that arrives on Saturday and have ‘part exchanged’ both the 5 and 3 series on it. I think we got a pretty good deal for the two of them, but of course I am sure we could have got more. The upside is that actually although we have financed the difference of the part exchange and the new car price, the monthly payments is actually less than what we would be paying for the two BMWs in petrol, insurance (quite high because of the neighbouring road turds) and maintenance.

We are both quite excited by the new car. I mean it is no luxury saloon or anything, but it is well built, has all of the safety gadgets we require and is quite cheap to run. Very spacious inside and we really don’t need two cars anymore.

So I will be posting a little bit more about the experience as we go. Looking forward to seeing how it goes with a long trip, maybe Holland or North France.

One of the funny things about when I took the car for a test drive… I felt like a total tosser driving it around, because the tester had all of these advertising slogans stuck all over it, the biggest being Nissan’s main slogan for the car ‘Because there is no greater adventure than having a family’ or something like that. He He.