Japanese cars

As I live in Japan, when I decided to buy a car I felt the best option was to buy a Japanese product. A colleague introduced me to a local car dealership who I'm sure made some good money off me but continue to provide excellent customer service and after sales support. The model I went for was the new Mazda Demio. In Europe I think this is called a Mazda 2. For a long time I was anti car due to their impact on the environment. However I now think that including an interest in cars as one of my hobbies is not such a bad thing. My opinion that pollution from cars not being good for the environment remains but I simply don't care enough to not drive a car.

Mazda cars

My Demio was the first new car that I have ever purchased and I am absolutely in love with it. It took a little extra time to be delivered as they had to put a special order in as I wanted a manual transmission. Had I opted for automatic I could have taken delivery a week earlier. However as I grew up driving manual cars I felt happier continuing the trend. When I learned to drive my instructor owned a Nissan and it was a great car to start on. So perhaps I should have known that my Demio would also be a pleasure to drive.

Petrol or gas as they call it in Japan is much cheaper than the U.K. It is almost half the price! I still have over two years before I complete paying off my car loan. My driving habits are also fairly tame and I am on target for under 10,000 km for the first two years of ownership. In the future when I decide to purchase another car, I will certainly go for a Japanese brand assuming I am still here. Next time though I think I will check out some high performance cars. There are some amazing cars like the Nissan Skyline and Mazda RX8.

26.09.2009. 08:24