AS A GENERAL rule of thumb, your first car is a bit rubbish.
After all, it has to deal with all the scrapes an eager teenager who has just passed their test gets into when they venture out onto South Wales’s country lanes. This was why my first car was a five-year-old Ford KA.
With no power steering and a gearbox on its last legs, three-point turns became 24-point turns and hill-starts were an absolute nightmare.
