After a few years riding around on a scooter, I’m pretty sick of it. Not only because of bad weather, but mostly because time and time again, someone doesn’t see me, or someone sees me coming but doesn’t care, or I don’t know. But I’m tired of being almost run over virtually every day.
So, I started looking for a nice small car. I don’t need something big, so I was mainly interested in a 3-doors hatchback. And not too old. My previous car was almost 20 years old, and it looked and behaved like it.
After looking around here and there, I found a nice, blue Peugeot 306. It’s from July 1997, has a 1.6 liter gasoline engine, and has 163,000 km on the clock. It’s equipped with standard options: power windows, power door locks with IR remote, height-adjustable driver seat and steering column, power steering, stuff like that. No a/c though, but I can live with that. The previous owner did not remove his JVC radio/CD/MP3 player, so that’s a nice extra.
So, enough talk, time for some pictures:
Well, so far (I’ve only driven some 20 km, not counting the test drive) it drives like a charm! It feels quite fast, it’s very responsive to steering, the engine makes enthusiastic noises, and the interior makes no noises at all, not even on bad roads. I’m happy.



