We've got a new car, a 1989 EA (I think) Ford Sedan. She's theoretically off-cream in colour, with just the barest tinge of salmon pink through it - though we had a dust storm yesterday so it could be dirt. :)
I wanted to call her Creampuff but that was vetoed by the cubs and their father. *hmph*
The names Elizabeth, or Beth are currently under consideration.

As you can imagine, getting a new car is a terribly exciting, especially as this car is a/ registered, b/ roadworthy, c/ insured, and d/ working. It's been a while since we've had all of the above in one vehicle. :)

Waaaay back in the pre-history of B.C. (before cubs) we had a little Mazda wagon. Lovely little blue car, took us all over the place, but she broke down just as we had to move house and we couldn't afford to get her fixed. Maggie sat in our backyard for years before we finally admitted we weren't going to do anything with her, and regretfully got rid of her. In the meantime, we'd finally bought another car from a friend when the cubs were a year old. (Imagine, if you will, twin babies and public transport - we didn't go out much that first year.) KimCar was a blue Mazda 323 hatchback, zippy little thing, loads of personality, (the only car I know who'd play hide'n'seek with me in the carpark). We drove her for a number of years, but she was never the same after she'd towed a tonne of metal lathe machinery; she broke down as we were moving house, and again we had no money to fix her. I cried when she was towed away after sitting in the driveway for months.

But fortune smiled, shortly after KimCar stopped working - like within days - we were given a beige Mitsubishi Sigma, christened Vejiita by the cubs. Given as in for free. Sure this car was unregistered and unroadworthy, but we managed to sneak around in it for 18 months, before she stopped working in June this year.

So there we were without a car, and no immediate prospects of one. Getting the cubs to school wasn't too much of a problem, the bus that runs along the main road we live just off goes very close to school, but getting their father to work was a logistical challenge.
But again, fortune smiled, and after a week or so of no car, a work mate of the cubs' father said 'my daughter is overseas at the moment, would you like to borrow her car?'
Would we!?

There was/is a time-limit on this car - a ford Laser hatchback, very similiar to the Mazda 323 - she had to be returned by the middle of september and the cubs' father was getting very stressed. He's a sagittarian and the thought of no transport makes him nervous. But as luck would have it, another friend of ours had a car that was surplus to their requirements. They agreed to sell her to us, and voila!
We took our first trip in the new car this morning, taking the cubs to school.
Nice car, big, well-mannered and friendly. I like her. :)