It would be more interesting if the scooter was electric, not gasoline.
That’s very good idea, however all the electric scooters in my budget had range of ~50km, which is not enough for my commute.
I can easily agree with that. Your previous one was badly built, and felt like it.
It was time to buy new tires.
And because I don’t have a car…
I had to drive them home from the tire shop like that, it was only 5km. People were watching.
Oh, and the horn started magically working again. Some wires probably weren’t connected.
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Accident happened
But it could have been easily avoided if I would have installed those new tires earlier.
Better late than never.
Also got front brake pads replaced, they were fairly fucked.
I bought a goddamn car.
It’s not the car I wanted, but it’s the car I bought. 1.6 8V, absolutely no power but the insurance is cheap.
The doors are awfully long so parking is pain in the ass, but to be fair, I wanted hatchback.
Despite it being the bare base model, it has power mirrors, heated front seats and passenger side airbag.
And the air conditioning doesn’t work.
And I can also hear some weird noise. Probably rear suspension.
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Great news! Air conditioning works, both cold and hot. However the air conditioning lights don’t work so adjusting them in the dark is pain in the ass. Same with radio, just have to guess the buttons.
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After several hours of intense fighting, I have installed new radio. The old one was stuck there and taking it off required removing the whole dashboard.
New radio has several bass settings and also loud mode. Makes me deaf and also makes the whole damn car shake.
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It’s coming together nicely! Is this a manual or an automatic?
5 speed manual, base model.
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#SaveTheManuals 
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The article doesn’t give any sources for that and I very much doubt that’s still the case in 2020.
Hard to find any sources. However I doubt the number has gone down too much.
I never really noticed that before I started looking for used cars and found that autos are everywhere and manuals are getting harder to find, especially for cars less than 10 years old.
I don’t think most European countries publish such statistics but Maanteeamet in Estonia does and according to their data, around 50% of all cars registered in the country are manuals. For 2019 cars, it was less than 25%.
It’s certainly very different compared to what it was just 10 years ago.
Well then, either Estonia or Poland is special, since here autos are of course easy to find in older cars but are nowhere near as popular.
In a quick search I’ve found data for 1998 and 2013 - 0,3% of new cars being automatic vs 13,5%, so still not that much.
In 2017, 35% of new cars that were registered in Finland were manuals. In 2019, 25% of cars sold in Finland were manuals. However, finding how many % of cars on the road are manuals is quite hard.
This is an excellent thread to read based off of sheer entertainment value lol. Just the way it’s written is fun. You’ve got a good thing going! Granted I think I would’ve sought after a manual coupe like that lol. Looks good, very clean!
I know I probably shouldn’t admit it, but this made me laugh 
Coupe? Ha, ha, no. It’s actually 3 door hatchback. It looks like coupe but it’s actually bit more practical.
Anyway, I was driving on the motorway today. Had to chance gears but I kinda fucked up my clutch and gas coordination, revs went up, some cylinder went yeet. Engine light started blinking.
I stopped, started the engine again and it runs well. With all 4 cylinders, however the check engine light is still on. I’ll have to take a look sometime.
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