Just realized, although I've posted in this thread, I haven't addressed the original question posed.
When I was much younger, before getting married, my cars were possibly the most important thing in my life. They had to have a massive street cred factor - although we'd never heard of street cred back in those days. Cool, Keen, Boss or Hip as was Kookie in 77 sunset strip!
I still salivate over stuff like that T Bird! Then I got married and the Cortina GT morphed into a 997cc Anglia followed by many "uncool" cars like a Citroen Dyane, Daff44, Datsun Sunny, etc. - but I survived and don't remember anyone thinking the less of me for it?
Now a days I couldn't care less about image and actually enjoy driving our wee Panda, maybe more than the Ibiza. I may look a bit incongruous, dressed, as I typically am, in jeans, a loud check shirt and my "lumberjack" cap - "Snap On Racing" baseball cap on special occasions - but I find the Panda very sprightly around town, easy to park and keeps up well with city traffic. Out on the open road, whereas if I'm in the Ibiza I may sometimes feel the need to overtake slower traffic and people seem to expect you to be pressing on, in the Panda I just sit back, relax and go with the general flow. It's nice, I feel very relaxed and content in it.
When I was much younger, before getting married, my cars were possibly the most important thing in my life. They had to have a massive street cred factor - although we'd never heard of street cred back in those days. Cool, Keen, Boss or Hip as was Kookie in 77 sunset strip!
I still salivate over stuff like that T Bird! Then I got married and the Cortina GT morphed into a 997cc Anglia followed by many "uncool" cars like a Citroen Dyane, Daff44, Datsun Sunny, etc. - but I survived and don't remember anyone thinking the less of me for it?
Now a days I couldn't care less about image and actually enjoy driving our wee Panda, maybe more than the Ibiza. I may look a bit incongruous, dressed, as I typically am, in jeans, a loud check shirt and my "lumberjack" cap - "Snap On Racing" baseball cap on special occasions - but I find the Panda very sprightly around town, easy to park and keeps up well with city traffic. Out on the open road, whereas if I'm in the Ibiza I may sometimes feel the need to overtake slower traffic and people seem to expect you to be pressing on, in the Panda I just sit back, relax and go with the general flow. It's nice, I feel very relaxed and content in it.
