I think it went like - portokal, kafe kus, avalon, kus, (something else in between here) and then temora. 

hmm...

touche, as the french and alpha would say.

i may see you, too, or you might see me.

or i might see you all and just being imaginative after.

The best car is the one you can afford.

And more importantly, you can afford to run......

And most important, the one that you have the wish to run....

Not really portokal.......

I don´t really wish to be driving a Rover - it is too much of a boring old man´s car and far too easy to lose in a carpark!   But it was cheap to buy and is not insanely expensive to run.   And it does what is needed of it which is getting me around - although recently I have been travelling to work by train far more than I have been using my car!

Hmm... guess you´re right.

About driving a car, I have got an Opel Corsa. Maybe i would have been happier with a BMW, but this one suits me well... for reasons that are more or less similar to yours. About travelling by train... yes, it is interesting, i also sometimes travel without the car, because it is more rapid (parking takes sometimes great deal of imagination and time here due to the very crowded traffic), more confortable (for the same reasons)... and I just have come to the conclusionm, that having a car is a well defined necessity, not a reason for sedentarism or for getting completely isolated, in meaning that no more trains, buses and such. Everything has it´s charm, also.

 I am a boring old man bod but instead of a Rover I drive an 11 year old Fiesta.  I seem to recall you had a Land Rover at one point. I have driven a Ford car most of my adult life, 2 Escorts and 3 Fiestas. My first car was a pre WW2 Austin 8 (top speed 46mph downhill with a tail wind). I now have a bus pass and can travel anywhere in Scotland free.

 My first car was a Morris Minor and it was nearly as old as me at time (17)!!  The dip switch for the lights was on the floor and I too could make 50 mph on a good day  I also want to confess that I drove that car absolutely drunk as a skunk, beside a river and fell out of it when I got home and was promptly sick  I have never driven after drinking again.

I was driving one of the Landrovers to my mother´s a long time ago and that had a dip switch on the floor.    It was dark and raining heavily.   About 2 miles from the motorway junction I was going to come off at a lorry passed me and I clicked the footswitch to flash him as clear, clicked it again to turn off main beam but the switch felt all squigy and the lights went off completely!!!

I accelerated as much as a 1966 Landrover could and manged to keep up with the lorry enough to be able to follow its tail lights until I got to the junction where there were street lights.    Fortunately there was a well lit hotel carpark next to the junction and I pulled into there to investigate.........

What I found was that the floor had rusted through and when I pushed the footswitch I had pushed it right through the floor and severed the wires to it thus cutting off all power to the headlights!    So in the rain I had to patch the wires together so I had just dipped beam and drove the rest of the way to my mothers with fingers well crossed.

Luckily it wasn´t too far and to this day I am thankful that this happened very close to my final destination instead of many miles away........

Oh the joys of motoring!!!

Well, I´m on the market for a new car. My Ford is getting old and the cost of going to the mechanic is adding up. I´m trying to hold off a bit to find a more fuel efficient one. I´ve tried to buy American to support the auto workers, but it´s getting harder and harder.

A friend of mine converted her car to electric, but it does not go very fast. I need to have a real pick up when on the freeways here. There is nothing quite so thrilling as having a 16 wheel trailor truck bearing down on you, so the need to quickly maneuver is imperative.