Here she is …
She’s gorgeous. And to the owner of the Suzuki Liana who thought they could out-accelerate her on the A52 today – sorry, she may be small, but she’s way nippier than you are from a standing start!
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I picked up Huffty from Beechdale, the Alfa dealers in Derby at lunchtime on Tuesday. She looked absolutely gorgeous in the showroom and I was very happy when I drove her away. The first trip was a little under 2 miles, back to the office. And then the heavens opened. And they seem to have stayed open ever since. So even with less than 200 miles on the clock she’s filthy. She needs a good wash so I can take pictures of her before someone runs a supermarket trolley into her! So something else to do this weekend along with . . . → Read More: Huffty – First Impressions Now that I know the registration mark of my new car, it has to have a name based on it. So it’s going to be called Huffty – despite pleas from the women of the house to name it something a little more Italian. There’s a heartwarming story in the Crewe and Nantwich Guardian about a MiTo and a bride to be. Either that, or it’s a very cleverly placed piece of advertising for the Mangoletsi dealership and her husband to be’s business The Leather Suite Warehouse. The stress of waiting for GCSE results is finally over in our house . . . → Read More: Huffty arrives on Tuesday I drive a lot. Probably around 25,000 miles a year and in the days I worked from offices in Manchester it was closer to 35,000 miles a year. Since 1998, I’ve relied on three different VW Passats to get me to where I want to go. I need a car that works. Reliably. All of the time. Those of you that read my ramblings on a regular basis will know that I’m just about (well, on 1st September) to give up all of this supposedly solid German engineering for a flighty, Italian, impractical but gorgeous Alfa MiTo. However, this last . . . → Read More: Car woes I’m going to be the owner of a shiny new red Alfa Romeo! The mid-life crisis has definitely kicked in … Here it is: Brrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I now know what it is that differentiates a car from a toaster. This has been a much more difficult TMA to sort out that I thought it was going to be and despite what I said about essay writing after I’d finished TMA01, I’m almost relieved that the next one is an essay question. As I’m ahead in the reading for the course, the coming week will see me make a start on it so I don’t get too far ahead and forget all I’ve read in the first three chapters of book 2. The first part of TMA02, five 200 word short answer questions on methodological terms such as correlation coefficients, . . . → Read More: ED209 TMA02 – Finished at last! I needed some de-icer for our cars this afternoon and was too late to get to Asda before it shut. No problem, there’s a garage just down the road. With a shop. I could have bought a whole range of groceries, sweets, chocolate, valentine’s day cards (what kind of person buys valentine’s day cards from a petrol station?), cuddly toys … but no de-icer. In fact, the only car related stuff was half a shelf of oil and the type of air fresheners only taxi drivers would buy. So I tried the next garage – and a similar story. Probably . . . → Read More: Garages – they just aren't, anymore  |
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