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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
HR-V: top marks from me
Got a new car today. But the picture above is the old one, for posterity. Alex was heartbroken. Three-year-olds don't realise that people change cars. And they hate change. He's never known another one. I took a tip from a colleague and hid "a present from the new car" in the back seat when he first saw it. Now he likes the new car, because it gives him chocolate. But I'm sure he'd still like the old car back. It was pretty striking ...and strikingly pretty, in my opinion. I remember my neighbour, on first seeing it, commenting: "Honda HR-V? Looks like an Allegro Estate to me". And do you know? The more I looked at it, the more I realised he had a point. But in four years it never so much as squeaked, never mind went wrong. Good work, Honda fellas.