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Yeah, I'm going to try not to think about those shoes anymore. Anyway, good news that the Aygo fits the beests.

Yeah, sorry about those. They’re an old pair of Ecco things that I keep by the back door for putting the bins out and walking to the gym — not usually at the same time. But they’re usefully slimmer than my various welted shoes, so I kept them on today as a sort of bare necessary minimum. I had nobody to impress — or so I thought anyway — so I reasoned that if these didn’t fit the Aygo’s pedals, it wasn’t the car for us.

As it turned out, of course, I could have worn double-sole Loakes and been fine.

All teasing aside probably a fine first car for anyone.
My first car was 11 years old, graduating to a 6 year old car after my first car was rear ended. No zinc and mega rust proofing in those days.
My eldest who's 6' 3", started out with an early 2000s Yaris. They're quite robust as he proved.

Given how hard it was in the 70's to get parts for a FIAT built in Italy, what are the chances, post Brexit, for parts from a super enhanced 80:20 Japanese:UK agreement? Say cheese Liz Truss.

Still, doing trade half way across the planet doesn't count, carbon neutral innit.

Australia are still super dependant on mother UK and have no agreements in places with their near neighbours.

It will be here at the end of May. No rush on either side, what with exams and things at this end.

I’m seeing the bloody things everywhere now. Especially blue ones. Having actively sought out blue cars for most of my buying life, I’m now wondering whether this one won’t look a bit shouty on my drive, but I suppose I’ll get used to it.

We put bike racks on his Aygo, even while he was still a learner. I felt it was important to just get him used to using the car as part of his daily life as opposed to every outing being a "lesson". Every time he wanted to go somewhere, and one of us was available to supervise, then he drove. Same with us, if one of us needed to go somewhere and he was free, again, he drove. Of course we were "teaching" him at the same time, but it was about making car use a normal activity for him rather than implying that it was some kind of black art.

Well, you'll soon find out what works for you and yours I guess, but what we did was buy him 6 driving lessons ( which in the end was three two hour sessions roughly three days apart ) to get him started. Just wanted to make sure he'd got the basic gist of it on a dual control car with a proper instructor initially. But, after that, he seemed happier just sitting with one of us in his own car. We'd have stumped for more official lessons if required of course, but he said he preferred getting to grips with his own car without the formal training.

He was in it most days at some point until he got his test date. He was 17 and at the local 6th form college at the time. Even that meant 2x trips of 5 miles in fairly heavy traffic on week days. Took about 12 weeks all up as I recall.

Even nipping to the supermarket in the evening for a loaf could involve reverse parking in a bay for example. Just make it part of daily life.

We never fell out over it. I just made him promise that if I asked him to do something, that he should do it immediately, and not argue or question it, even if he disagreed or didn't understand, until the car was stopped, when we could discuss the reason/s why I'd told him whatever I'd told him.

In the end I think we both quite enjoyed the excercise. Well, I did anyway, and it seemed to work for him.