We’re clearly becoming American. The reasonably large car that we got to start with is no longer big enough. We’ve been here a year and we want bigger! Getting a new car in America is different than the UK. The main thing is that they want you to take the new car immediately. If you so much as mention that you’re happy to leave the car with them a few days while they complete the minor enhancement we want, they give you a strange look, insist you take the new car away and bring it back when the work can be completed. Not taking the car is not an option.
In some respects this is good. You don’t have to spend a few days waiting for the Post Office to open so you can get tax discs, etc. but in other ways it’s not good. The main negative is that Tracy didn’t really have time to get her head round saying goodbye to the Tiguan. The emotion and sadness had to be condensed into about 30 minutes. It was very sad and I’m not sure she has fully recovered yet!
The good thing is we now have a bigger car and can start planning camping trips and the like. Year two in American is going to be larger and even more exciting that year 1 – and just because we got a new car!
Goodbye VW…
Now let’s just hope we get the rear view camera installed before there are any “whoopsies”!