The great car hunt

It’s an exhausting business, this car hunt.

We went for our second test drive of the week. This time it was the Peugeot. Unfortunately we weren’t able to see the model we wanted in an automatic, so we ended up testing a larger Peugeot 3008 with a 1.6l engine, then went for a drive in a Peugeot 2008 1.2l, the model we wanted, but in a manual. As a passenger I felt absolutely at home in the 2008. However, the Fox had difficulty in deciding as he was in the back seat.

The really exhausting part of the whole process is the getting in & out of all the different models trying the different seats & their heights. Some cars have seats that rise & lower for the driver but not for the passenger so that means two lots of seats for me to try. For the Fox there is also the business of picking up the wheelchair to put it in the boot to make sure there is enough room for it all with our usual clutter. Yesterday we got in and out of about 10 different cars – shattering. By the time we left I was diving for the painkillers.

As a result I was once more early to bed, before 10pm.

At the moment the Peugeot is winning. We’re still not convinced we’ve found the absolute winner. Next we thought we try the garage selling Renault, Hyundai & Dacia. If we don’t find anything more exciting there we’re thinking we’ll just settle for the Peugeot 2008.