.:M@tyBoy:.

That’s right I have a new baby… Mazda 2. My wife has got herself full-time work and selfishly wants to drive her car to work. After some discussion about what we can/should do we decided to purchase a new car. We have been lucky to only require one vehicle for so long, but we were eventually going to need a second vehicle as our careers progressed. If Melbourne’s public transport wasn’t so shit maybe we could have avoided it longer.

With some help of my brother we eventually purchased a vehicle from Ballarat City Mazda and we were well looked after. We did do some price matching in Melbourne, but found the staff member at Penfold’s Mazda arrogant and pushy to the point they wanted us to pay them more then we were offered by Ballarat. I know WTF!?! Pay more? So we took our business to Ballarat and got the price we were quoted and it was ready by the following weekend.

I have to say although we didn’t want to spend the money and we could have come up with other solutions, the new car is pretty nice. I feel like a bit of a hypocrite, I have always said new cars are a waste of money and I stand by it, they are, but there is something about driving a car nobody else has owned. The other thing I like is it is a manual, I have been driving an auto for the last few years and didn’t realise how much I missed driving a manual, even in traffic.

Here are some pictures from the internets. I can’t be bothered taking photo’s when somebody else already has