Yayyyy!! and then not.

Funnily enough I speak Serbo-Croat with a Russian accent, so I empathise with Otto. When I visit former YU countries and clumsily engage with interlocutors, I can see them trying to square the ginger hair, unusual ability to speak their language (very rare in foreigners for them) and the Russian accent.

I've had a Brazilian, in fact, I've had a few...

It is, I'll grant, something of a fading memory...

I expect you could get some ointment for that.

As danced on Strictly....

Espada, wasn't there a Presodent of Israel who did his degree at Queen's University, Belfast, and thereafter spoke English with a broad Ulster accent. It might have been Abba Eban, although I may be wrong there.

Well, I still don't like it and I am certainly not taking into the mountains, but it's not a bad city and suburban car, I suppose.

It's quite well equipped with technology and quite comfortable after 3 days of dicking around with the seat position. At least it's got memory seats which also remember the position of the steering wheel and mirrors.

Whilst the passenger space feels quite spacious the boot is not. Verging on the titchy. Quite a few pockets and bins, in the passenger space though.

It's quite lively, though with a 3.5 V6 you'd hope it would be, but I'm not struck on the gearbox. I can't put my finger on what it is, but it's uncomfortable, or perhaps unfamiliar. Or something. It delivers the power well enough, but it doesn't deliver a kick to the bum, which you'd sort of think it should.

All in all, if you just do motorways and suburbs, you'd probably quite like it. It's ok.

Anyway, I've been whining about it so much that a mate of mine, head of the local Subaru dealer, tells me he's got something I'll like. No idea what it is, and never actually owned a Subaru I don't think, which makes it interesting, so I shall go and pick it up tomorrow and see what it is and what I think of it. Probably be a bloody three-wheeler.

Surely I'll like it more than this thing.