Christ. I wish I had such easy access to great roads. I, too, am feeling a pang of regret for not driving mine enough.
It doesn't help that I've recently "inherited" a free car that's been knocking around in my family for years - a 2002 1.0l Toyota Yaris that my sister bought years ago, and which refuses to die.
I learned to drive in it back in 2006, it then went to my dad to use as a runabout when sis upgraded to an Auris...and now she's upgraded again (after about 16 years with the Auris!) and has given that to dad, he was going to scrap the Yaris...but seeing as there's not really much wrong with it, and it has some sentimental value, I've taken it on as a cheap runabout.
It's battered and bruised - but it has an MOT and does about 58MPG, and it's pretty liberating driving a car which you don't care about cosmetically - especially when a lot of the time, my commute home from the office takes me down tiny country lanes at rush hour which would have me wincing when I'm in the GR.
It's battered and bruised - but it has an MOT and does about 58MPG, and it's pretty liberating driving a car which you don't care about cosmetically - especially when a lot of the time, my commute home from the office takes me down tiny country lanes at rush hour which would have me wincing when I'm in the GR.
So at the moment, my GR can exist purely as the fun toy again, which is good especially as it just came back with a freshly painted bumper that I don't want to get stone chipped....but I'm finding it hard to find the time to dedicate to actually just going for a drive in it
