Hello Car!

This is my car soon after I bought it on 170 odd thousand miles.

I spent a lot of time deciding what to buy. When I was looking around I was surprised at how expensive cars are these days. Really to get a two year old family car with a bit of oomph it looked like I was going to have to spend say..... £12000. Thats not the sort of money I would readily spend (bit of a skinflint!)

I knew someone who had an old Mercedes and he convinced me that it was a good idea to buy an old Merc. You can get these for say £3 to 4K. I guess they are not too popular because of the relatively high petrol consumption....but there are many good points which I will come to at some point.