It's moving towards that time when I think about car changing again - takes me about a year to actually decide and get the deal done. I'm at the start of the process.
Always the gentleman, I canvassed Mrs Dipstick's views. Unexpectedly she had some input, and has said she's "seen a little buzzy car, can we have one of those?"
Many long evenings of drawn out questionings about where and when the "buzzy car" was seen, with a bright light in her eyes and my best Poirot moustache on, has finally whittled it down to what she means - a Daihatsu Copen.
Good Lord. I like the idea of the folding top, but unfortunately there seems to be some sort of vehicle attached to it.
Anybody got one or driven one of these cute but seemingly impractical tiny cars?
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My wife's friend has one now, it is 59 plate so not had it very long at all.
It is too small for many drivers, very ceamped but 'women' seem to like it more than men, not sexists, just facts.
No room for carrying stuff at all either, so it is only a fun car.
Does a lot to the gallon too. I would think a convertble Mini would be a better bet, if you like that kind of thing.
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Dipstick
Consider yourself lucky, my missis would contribute sommat like " I want one of those green/red/blue ones" , then be upset when the green/red /blue one was not the marque she was expecting, my mindreading skill being a bit rusty betimes.
cheers
M
Mind you it was worse when attempting to design a house to please her
with every room contigous with every other room, and all with the full benefit of the one good aspect forby.
scheesh
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Thanks TurboD - I was wondering whether you could get your shopping in it but it sounds like even that might be a problem, never mind a suitcase.
And dieseldogg, Mrs D tends to have colour views akin to this (2 minute safe for work) clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRn59zNL0Ew
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Diesel, you should have based the design on a tesseract, problem solved!
Dipstick, my mother would say things like "That Escort is nice. It's bigger than yours isn't it?". Err, no, they only come in one size, for the 45th time.
So be grateful you actually pinned the car down! Now, how to put her off the idea?
JH
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years ago, my brother in law had a Datsun Cherry, my wife had a nissan.
Her mother (my mother in law) would roundly accuse my wife of buying from those "bleep bleep japs, while her brother was roundly praised for buying patriotic British.
I tried to explain, hundreds of times.........
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AE, it must have been around that time that they all proudly displayed a "Building in Britain" sticker in the back window. The only thing they were building in Britain was a factory. Got a bit ahead of themselves there.
JH
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A tall, elegant, lady solicitor friend of mine has had one for several years. I think she likes it.
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A couple of years ago my wife decided she wanted a Daihatsu Copen after seeing one on a repeat of Top Gear.
The earlier models have a 660cc engine that needs a service every three months. The later ones have a 1.3 engine and normal service intervals, but are unavailable in yellow, and Daihatsu refused to make one specially for her in yellow.
She ended up with an Alfa instead, and does not regret the decision.
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I was in a Merc showroom with my mam once and she decided that she really rather liked the black car at one end of the showroom, we wandered around and she saw a green car at the other end of the showroom which she decreed was far too big and ugly... can you see where this is going?
It took some persuasion that they were in fact two identical Mercedes SL cars but in different colours and at opposite ends of the sales floor, no other differences at all!
Edited by Blue {P} on 20/01/2010 at 03:29
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Thanks for all the input folks. I think we've knocked the Copen off the list, the killer being there's no suitcase room so that would mean two cars, or hiring one for every break and holiday, which isn't really a sensible option.
Not sure it's my kind of thing anyway, so that's a relief.
When we wheel the trolley out of the supermarket Mrs D will hesitate by every single silver car (ours being silver), whether it's a Mini or a Landcruiser, and I think I can work this to my advantage.
Given that she always prefers the tiniest and greenest of cars but is startlingly unfamiliar with any of them, I fully intend to get a Royce, ideally a Phantom. I'll tell her it's the latest thing to save the environment, and if she takes the tv off standby for a week she'll have paid for it. I'm pretty sure this will work.
Edited by Dipstick on 20/01/2010 at 08:34
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