The Car

Well, we have gone and bought a new car. A New car. A NEW car. A BRAND NEW CAR. I have not done that before. Had a couple of old secondhand cars in England. The more expensive cost me 800 pounds. You cannot buy a secondhand car for that price here except maybe an ancient beat up old pick up truck that just about runs. The secondhand market here is very different to England.

We've had our car for just over 4 years - a Toyota Corona, nice little runner, the model was much used here as airport taxis. Reliable, enough space for us, but getting older. It was already about 6 years old when we bought it, so it's now over 10 years old and yes the car was starting to show it's age. We realised we'd have to spend some money to fix it up.... and with the secondhand value slowly dropping (but still good for a 10 year old car) we decided to look into a new car.

Long Story Short. We traded in the old car for 150000 Baht (more than 2000 Pounds) and that was just about enough for a deposit on a new Toyota Hilux Vigo Prerunner.... We wanted a big car. Not rich enough to buy a fancy SUV. But a 4 door pick up truck was possible. This is our new monster truck:





A few bits and bobs to buy for it like an extra roll bar and some bling, but after a few days of driving this car around... we like!

For those interested (papa?) .. here's our car:

http://www.toyota.co.th/en/models/Vigo_Prerunner/prerunner2007_home.htm