Mark needs a reliable car and the Punto is past it's best. It has served him well and been really quite cheap to run but recent events have highlighted it's age. So while his car was off the road waiting on Andy's time to fix it and then the phased repair after the first fix failed to provide the permanent solution, "Dad's Taxi" gets hooked into conveying him around the dealers and car retailers in the local area. After several of weeks searching, initially without any idea as to what he really wanted and all the time mindful that he didn't want to blow all his savings, we finally found the solution.
Late on Sunday afternoon we dropped in on the local Mazda dealership, and after being advised that all the ones in the price bracket we were looking had been sold and leaving our details for then to "get back to us" we took a walk round a corner plot to see a lovely looking example of a 7 year old Mazda 3 TS at half the price we'd set as the upper limit of his budget. We persuade a salesman who obviously wants to be getting off home, to give Mark a test drive. The smile across his face when he returns tells me all I need to know. So, we agree that subject to an inspection by his bigger brother Andy, and the go ahead from him, we are seriously interested.
Andy has seen it, driven it, inspected it and on Tuesday after Christmas Mark will own a low mileage Mazda 3 1.6 TS in a rather nice metallic blue, complete with a 1 year Mazda backed warranty and home start, breakdown and recovery. What a nice way to end the year.
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