Yes yes,
After crashing my previous car bad twice in the last two months I had to get a new car fast. My Ford Fiesta served me well. Almost one-and-a-half years and near to 85.000km's. It had to grow on me a bit but after a while I even started to like it.
Unfortunately two months ago the trouble started. I went off in a fast corner. Mud on the road, understeer, abrupt throttle off, oversteer.. Skidding, lamp post.. safe... lamp post BANG. Frontal at 40 km/h. Total damage €2150 to the car and 1800 for a new post. Good insurance covered the damage for me, but it was €50 from economic write-off.
A few weeks back. Freshly repaired car. Kind of sleepy on the way to The Hague. At a dangerous and busy intersection of highways. I was changing lanes and looking in my mirror for a second. All of a sudden an accident happened in front of me. Slammed the brakes. Juuuust blocking - unblocking the tires. But it was just too short. Damnit not again.. BANG! In the back of a BMW 1-series. Total score ? €5250 damage to the Fiesta. Game over.
After crash #1 I was slowly looking for a new ride. Now it had to go quicker. I got a decent €3000 for the old car. The exact amount I once paid for it.. Combined with some savings it resulted in the €4250 bill for my fun-machine!
The purchase is a 1999 Ford Puma. Small 2+2 seater + Big engine + Great chassis = Fun. It's done 130.740 km's when I got it delivered three weeks ago. Now it's standing at 132.910km'w allready. The 1.7 litre engine delivers 125hp and 155Nm to the front wheels. Weighing in at just 1020kg's it is pretty fast. Top speed is 215km/h and 0-100km/h is over in 8 seconds. All this and still doing 8l/100km. Nice!
I got a pretty basic model. Only luxury is a radio and electric windows. Good! That keeps it nice and light! Well enough talking. Enjoy the first few pictures I took.
Sjoerd