New car

Anya the last car ( I chose the colour ) was a lovely cherry colour, and easy to find in any car park ( the previous one was silver and a nightmare to find.)
DH and I looked at all the colours we could have for the new car, and between him not liking black, white, navy blue, red, and me not liking any green,
Or very bright blue or silver it only really left one colour, a sort of dark-ish purpley blue.It's lovely, but I have already seen several others just the same, so will very likely lose it in the supermarket car parks after all.

I do love the smell of new cars but haven't had one for many years I have been hankering for a new mini clubman but can't justify the price and anyway I am still very fond of my audi sports I wanted one for years and finally got one it is silver and still looks good.

Anya
My brother told me never to buy a black car as it attracts and shows the dust
Mine is silver, the other day I was number 3 in a line of 7 silver cars at a red light.

Yes, ^RAR* that will wear off. Glad you're happy with it.

We made the mistake of buying a black car recently. In a world of black cars that was a mistake.

I'm always wandering round supermarket car parks trying to find it by pressing the keyfob, but it's a little sporty car and hides behind bigger ones.

Yesterday I scared an elderly man, by suddenly exclaiming 'Oh! there you are!' -meaning I'd located the car. Unfortunately he just happened to be in the sight line between me and it and he thought I was addressing him.

He did looked very startled. Like a rabbit caught in headlights.

Menopaws H is a part time gardener and dosen't drive so it's my car that gets the mud and grass and that unmistakeable damp grass smell when I have to transport his mower

I had a new car last year, not brand new but new to me but very clean inside. Ate a kit Kat outside the car and wiped my feet each time I got in etc, lasted about a week, now full of crap, dog hair, grass and mud, feels more homely couldn't cope with new and clean! When we were young my husband was a groundsman and I worked with racehorses so both cars were full of either grass, oil, mud and machinery or straw, horse poop, mud and leather items, we used to meet in the pub at the end of the day looking a right state! But v happy

Like Nina, I've never had a new car, though at least 10 'new' second hand cars. But think I can imagine the feeling (a bit).
Funnily enough, a neighbour (english) came round today to show us his new Audi - a big monster of a car. He's a big man (physically)) so it suits him. And his wife, who isn't small either.
But I wouldn't dare drive a car like that - terrified I'd get a scratch.

Well, it won't be brand new for long, once it gets some dust on it and a few crumbs inside.

Was your car written off Penstemon?

Neither have I. The nearest I got was 'one previous owner'.

I too have never had a brand new car.

My new car never fully recovered from its meeting with the post office van! That was about a year after I got it!

Thanks...glad it's not just me, but the funny thing is, have never been quite so careful with a new car before now, so maybe an age thing as well.
Eighteen months/four years, haha, I was hoping it would be nearer a few weeks.

I've done that when collecting my car from a garage after MOT! - had to ask one of the mechanics to reverse out for me

No it's not just you roses! Hadn't had ours long when I parked at the hospice where I volunteer, I hadn't realised the only way out of that space was to reverse back along between two rows of badly parked cars. I panicked, cried all over the receptionist who found a nice maintenance man to reverse it out for me. My old boy to this day has no idea that ever happened and I haven't felt the need to enlighten him!

I've never had a new car, or do you mean new to you ?
My beloved corsa died 3yrs ago. The body work was immaculate despite it's age. I scratched the new one after a few months, and lost the back of the wing mirror in a hedge on a country lane shortly after. I think I've given up on it now

No, it's not just you. I was very careful with our new car to begin with. Not so now we've had it eighteen months!? I'm as blasé as ever about where I park it. It has more power than our old one too, so I overtake with gay abandon (appropriately of course). ??

We have had ours since January and I am paranoid about where I park it. DH says I should have a sign saying "plague victims on board - do not approach"! Even the faintest hint of a scratch or stone chip will leap out at me like neon, when no-one else even notices them! I hope it wears off soon, too!

We still do it and the car is now 4 years old! When it was new DH often parked 'badly' on purpose so no one could get near enough to bang their doors into it!