19-10-2010, 03:31 PM
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My Dad loved driving BIG cars, even though the speed limit in my island home is only 35 m.p.h. When he brought them over to the UK he could let rip a bit. The island's number plates only contain numbers, no letters. When over here he was stopped a number of times by the police who asked about his number plate. The cheeky man would tap the side of his nose and say that when you belonged to a certain family you didn't need letters in the registration! Thinking he was Royalty of some description, he would get red carpet treatment. He even got a police escort to his destination once as he was a bit uncertain of the route!
19-10-2010, 04:11 PM
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A good number of years ago I had a Ford Fiesta, which I really enjoyed driving, until one day, as I turned right, the front passenger side wheel sheered off at a 90 degree angle. Thank goodness no one was behind me as I stopped dead. I had my Down's Syndrome son in the car with me, he was only a little boy at the time. The car was fixed, apparently it was a fault on some Fiestas. However I just couldn't bring myself to drive it again, and insisted on driving my husband's car until he bought me another one, a small Peugeot, if I remember rightly.19-10-2010, 04:22 PM
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You know, I had a Ford Fiesta do that too, only it was the the driver's side wheel turned at a 90 degree angle and I shot across to the other side of the road sideways. Fortunately I was going uphill on a quiet road, I had my young son and his friend in the back. We were on our way to sail their boats - never got there and I also refused to drive another one.19-10-2010, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by maryl
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You know, I had a Ford Fiesta do that too, only it was the the driver's side wheel turned at a 90 degree angle and I shot across to the other side of the road sideways. Fortunately I was going uphill on a quiet road, I had my young son and his friend in the back. We were on our way to sail their boats - never got there and I also refused to drive another one.
19-10-2010, 07:58 PM
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I have two cars, one for pleasure and one to house dogs on the move. My pleasure car is a red, quite old Mazda MX5 which I treated myself to 18 months ago and I love it, although don't get to use it as much as I would like as always seems to have the dogs with me They drive in a Mitsubishi Space Star Equippe (grey hatchback) which is also a great car.My MX5
19-10-2010, 08:41 PM
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I have the car I wanted as soon as I saw it......a red Chevrolet Matiz and I love it. Its very nippy and economical-costs me about £10 to go to Derbyshire and back! Although only a small car, I have put the back seats down and made it into a mini-estate for the Hatti girl. Had the car 3 years now and have never had any problems with it.......a good runabout car.
20-10-2010, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Rainbow
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Do you have the car you WANT!! 
Or the practical car you NEED!
Or the car that is affordable, cheap to run and actually moves too!!
(sometimes)! Rainbow
I have the practical car that I need - for carrying dogs, children and other stuff around. It also has a touch of luxury, leather and "bells and whistles" which are nice to have but not essential.
Its a Golf TSI Estate - its nippy enough for me and not too bad on petrol consumption. It remains to be seen if it is economical and cheap enough to run (I intend to keep it for quite a while and it depends how much it ends up costing me to repair in the long run)
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