This is what we drove before the kids arrived:
A fabulous tank of a car, an automatic Toyota Supra Mk.3 3.0l turbo. This is what I learned to drive in, and L plates look cool on this, I promise. Ours was called Scarlett, after the character from 'Gone With the Wind'. I cried when we traded her in.
This is what we traded her in for, when we knew Destructo Boy was on the way:
Val the Valkyrie, an automatic Volvo 940 estate. It was in this car that I backed into the invisible parked blue transit van.And now we drive one of these, which has just passed her MOT after a new ABS thingy that was fortunes to replace:
Volvos are lovely: reliable, trustworthy, safe, surprisingly fast with even more surprising grunt-ability, practical, not expensive to run or maintain.
How are the mighty fallen.