New car

Picked up our brand spanking new car last week, and like nearly everyone when they get a new car, am pretty chuffed with it. As a rule, I don't like Fords. Memories of my Dad's old beige Sierra that I crashed 3 weeks and 2 days after passing my test, and left in a crumpled mess.

Well the new car is a Ford Edge, a pretty big 4x4, with a 3.5l, V6 engine and about 290bhp. An automatic that does about 14mpg. But then when you can fill up it's 60+litre tank for about 100 (dirhams that is), or just under 14 quid, it doesn't really matter. Has all the toys on, which on reflection are necessities, sat nav, reversing camera, bluetooth through the stereo for your mobile phone, remote control dvd player and the most important of all, the auxiliary input for your ipod!

You need a big car over here as nearly everyone has them and if you had something small, you wouldn't stand much of a chance on the roads! in fact the Ford Edge is probably one of the less conspicuous 4x4's out here. Porsche Cayennes and Hummers stand out like a sore thumb and are 2 a penny!