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New car in my life.

It's with a lot of sadness this week that I parted with my Mercedes Benz CLK63 AMG. We had a blast the past eighteen months, but time had come for me to say good bye to it and take the reigns of, what to my mind is a 'sensible' car. Ugh. Sensible. Makes me feel suddenly very old. If it wasn't for the fact that my other car is in dire need of surgery, for which I am still waiting on quotes for - mostly just dotting i's and crossing t's - in replacing the gearbox, I would be driving it. As it stands I took delivery on Monday of my new BMW 320d. Mineral white with black leather interior. With the minimum additions from the optional extras list, I thought that adjusting to it would represent a hardship. Driving away from the showroom on Monday, the first angst beset me in adjusting to the cars totally different power and response curves, and a very new and unsettling auto stop start function. None of my other cars had this `feature`. Yes, I'm quoting that, since