New Old Car

 

My trusty, but increasingly creaky old '96 Pulsar was stolen last week. There has been not a peep from the cops, which to be honest I'm not at all surprised by.

Now I have replaced it with a less old, but still fairly old car: a 2006 Nissan Wingroad wagon, from Turner's Cars. This was a buy-and-drive-away deal; I didn't go through the auction process, although if I could have been bothered with all that hassle it would probably have been a bit cheaper. Not to worry though, at least it didn't completely wipe out every last bean of my savings, which is what I was expecting.

Although I did love my old Pulsar, and I wouldn't have willingly parted with it, I think this car is definitely an upgrade. It's a decent bit more powerful, and there are fewer things broken on it, like the air conditioning for example. Plus, it's modern enough that I only have to get it warranted every twelve months instead of six. And being a wagon, there's oodles of space in the back when the seats are dropped down, and it has a tow-bar too (though I've never towed a trailer in my life and couldn't back one to save myself). No spare wheel though, which is apparently common with more recent vehicles, but it does make me a little bit uncomfortable. I guess I'll have to invest in one of those squirty-foam things for emergencies.

I do miss my old sound system though. This one has a tuner / CD player, which sounds pretty good and which does read MP3 files off the CD, but commercial radio is almost all utter shite and a CD is only about 800MB, a far cry from the 64GB shuffling of music I'm accustomed to. On the plus side, I'd kind of lost the habit of listening to a whole album all at once, and it turns out that's actually kind of a good way of listening to music.