Helvensteijn.com » car http://helvensteijn.com Some fancy, yet to be devised subtitle goes here... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:20:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Internal combustion http://helvensteijn.com/blog/2009/04/14/internal-combustion/ http://helvensteijn.com/blog/2009/04/14/internal-combustion/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:03:07 +0000 Colin Helvensteijn http://helvensteijn.com/?p=743 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:

A blue Peugeot 306 car

Front

A blue Peugeot 306 car

Side

A blue Peugeot 306 car

Rear

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. :)

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