Before my Mazda will act up a little bit to much I thought it would be wise to trade it in for something else. After about 310.000km and close to 16 years of service it’s time for something else. So looked around for a Mazda 6 and on that search came accross something else. Not a Mazda but a 2005 Honda Accord Tourer. This car is bigger then the Mazda, but just as reliable; at least that is what I hope, and cheaper to get. After driving it I was sold, a very nice driver indeed. The size of the car will need some getting used too as moving from a dinky toy to the largest car Honda can deliver is quite a difference. With the rear seats down I can lie in the back without bending my knees, so that is about 1.8m of space….. As I buy my cars second hand you cannot have the choice of colour as you would with a new one and black is not the first colour that comes to mind but it will do. Hopefully it will last me just as long as the Mazda did which I drove for 13 years.

The previous eight cars are:

Some of these I only drove for a couple of weeks, as they where sold. After number 5 the pricetag for the cars I choose went up and selling them didn’t occur anymore and they where traded in on a frequent basis until the MX-5. It took only 6 years to go through the first seven cars on the list, the rest was taken by the MX-5. And this will be the car I will miss the most of all of them, the only other car with really fond memories is the 323 GTXi, which was a really nice driver as well. If in the future I will have a house including a garage I think I will buy a convertible again, but instead of one that can be used as a daily driver rather something with more classical lines, most likely a replica. Cobra’s come to mind as there are plenty to go around even in the Netherlands, but an Abigail or Marlene would be awesome, those are the most beautiful cars I’ve seen so far. Abigail would be an Auburn 852 Boattail Speedster and Marlene a Mercedes 500K Roadster, both originally build in the 1930’s. Another cheaper alternative would be a JBA Falcon which also has similar lines, but there are no left hand driven cars in existence as far as I know. The JBA is build in the UK, where the other two are mostly build in the United States.