Jeremy on his daughter’s first car

When it’s your daughter who’s about to poke her  headlights into a maelstrom of the weak, the mad and the blind, you need  to sit down with the spec sheets and do some proper research. Style?  Speed? Value? Handling? All the things that usually matter suddenly  don’t any more. All I was interested in was safety. I wanted a car with  2,000 airbags. I wanted a bouncy castle with wipers.
I wanted my daughter to have something absolutely enormous. A Volvo   with elephantitis. That rig they used for moving space shuttles. I   wanted Lincolnshire, with wheels. And bumpers like a spoilt child’s   bottom lip. Sadly, you would obviously need a large engine to power such   a thing, and that’s where you run up against the insurance  companies…

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Jeremy on his daughter’s first car

When it’s your daughter who’s about to poke her headlights into a maelstrom of the weak, the mad and the blind, you need to sit down with the spec sheets and do some proper research. Style? Speed? Value? Handling? All the things that usually matter suddenly don’t any more. All I was interested in was safety. I wanted a car with 2,000 airbags. I wanted a bouncy castle with wipers.

I wanted my daughter to have something absolutely enormous. A Volvo with elephantitis. That rig they used for moving space shuttles. I wanted Lincolnshire, with wheels. And bumpers like a spoilt child’s bottom lip. Sadly, you would obviously need a large engine to power such a thing, and that’s where you run up against the insurance companies…

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