Apart from *finally* having my domains fixed and working, I also took delivery of my car yesterday.

After many months of deciding what car to buy, followed by weeks of searching for it, then a few days of negotiating the price and coin flipping, then two weeks to organise finance, insurance, servicing, licensing, registration, etc. I finally took delivery of a Magnum Grey 2005 Ford Fiesta 1.6i Trend (3dr) at shortly after 3 yesterday afternoon.

Obviously used (if the 2005 part didn’t give it a way) but in very good condition (how bad can a year old car get?) and going for a pretty decent price (I got R10k knocked off) I decided to buy it in favour of a new Fiesta Trend 1.4i, which the salesman was pretty eager to sell to me I might add — even managed to get R7-8k off the price there.

It has only slightly more than 19k km on the clock right now, so for a year old car — first registered March 2005 — that’s a bit lower than average. They serviced the car for me in addition to the normal valet they do as well as rotated my wheels, which was quite nice as I don’t have to worry about another service for quite a while now. Whatever they put on the steering wheel (Armourall?) makes it damn slippery though and not so fun when the thing slides through your grip midcorner; hopefully that will wear off soon enough.

After going through reams of documentation and signing half my life away, then doing a final satisfaction check, I finally managed to drive away at about 16h40… straight into peak traffic. So my first drive in the car was in bumper to bumper traffic — oh the joys of Cape Town traffic. So between the traffic and my night blindness I’ve hardly had a chance to drive the car, but my initial impressions are very favourable over what I was previously driving :/.

Pictures (because I just have to!) and more thoughts will come in a few days.