I have been looking for a new car for a while. I wanted a hybrid, that is car that uses petrol to charge batteries but primarily runs by batteries that are charged as you brake the car, by regenerative braking, which charges the batteries. This system is perfect for inner suburban driving, not so good on motorways where you rarely brake.
I spent hours looking at different models over weeks, using the web browser Duck Duck Go, so that I wasn't inundated with car ads via Google's all knowing system.
Nothing could compare price wise and feature wise and tech wise to even my old 2021 Mazda CX30, let alone a new Mazda CX30. I received a much better trade in price than I thought, in spite of the slight damage to the body work, thanks Kosov.
This was because otherwise, it was an undamaged car with very low mileage. 35,000 km/21,700 miles for a five year old car. If not for family dying, Covid when we stopped using public transport and Phyllis using the car, it might have been 20,000 km. I mostly use trams and trains to get around.
Goodbye to the old and slightly grubby drag queen car Pearl. I loved you, even if Ray didn't. It feels like a final severing of my connection to Ray. After an argument, I no longer drove the car in the city areas and he would moan on about how hard the car was to get in and out of, and how the warning beeping from various sources drove him mad. His first point may have been valid. It is harder when you are older to get in and out of a car, but I loved the beeping alerts, along with the sophisticated front and rear cameras.
If you are a newer reader, Ray was my partner for 45 years until he suddenly died two years ago.
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