Yay…. I finally now have my new car. After nearly two months of waiting it’s hear and it’s fooking lovely, a brand spanking new 307cc.

(all pics taken on my k750i camera phone – not bad huh?)

Now all I have to do is work out how to connect my iPod to the damn stereo without using one of those bloody FM transmitter thingies and I’m sorted. I have a freelance job or two coming up soon so hopefully I should be able to afford a couple of little improvements as well if everything goes to plan

So far the car has been nice to drive, although it’s very different to what I’m used to. I’ve only ever driven hatchbacks before now so I’m used to the car stopping at the back window – this doesn’t – in fact, it goes on for at least another two feet and the front is much longer than my old 206 so this is causing me a few problems when it comes to reverse/parallel parking etc.

It’s nice having the extra oomph that the 2.0 litre HDI engine provides. The total horse power of 136 is nearly double what the old car had but this car is quite weighty so isn’t as fast as it could be, but lets face it… who drives fast in a convertible anyway? The whole point of convertibles is to drive slow and pose and that’s one thing that I’ll be doing plenty of.

This is certainly a sexy car (in my opinion) and it gets plenty of looks, especially with the roof down. The front grill kind of reminds me of one of those basking sharks purely because it’s so bloody big and I certainly prefer the looks compared to those of the old style 307cc which just looked a bit too tame for my liking. The only thing I don’t really like about it is the chrome surrounds on the front fog lights, but I’m sure that’ll grow on me.

Since I’ve only had it for two days, I can’t really comment on the reliability and I haven’t had it on the motorway yet so I haven’t quite had a chance to really open her up and see what she can do, but I’m heading up to see my family tomorrow and that requires a motorway trip so I’m certainly looking forward to that one.

Overall I’m happy and would say that it’s been well worth the wait, now I just have to wait for summer so I can get some serious topless action going on! I’m not going to score this review because I still have a lot to learn about the car, these are really just my initial thoughts. Hopefully I’ll get around to writing a follow up in a month or so when I’ve spent some proper time with it.

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