Now that cross weather has temporarily left us, Chris Cross has been finding other ways to be cross. My car search feels like those Top Gear challenges where if I don't find anything I will be forced to take the undiserable option of wasting money fixing my Colt or have nothing at all.

I went to check Toyota Center in Mölndal and was thoroughly disappointed. I have always had a Toyota aversion and I do now more than ever. They had one Aygo+ which I will admit was larger than I expected. But to pay 90G for something that has gone 8000 mil is silly. Then there were two Auris or should I say Arse because you would have to be one to buy either of these examples. 130G for something scratched and abused with completely bald tires on steel rims. Come on. I would need to spend like at least 6000kr to get any of these 3 in shape. And the two Yaris? They were sold already which means they would have been good.

While I was there I walked over to US Center and Gbg Begagnat and found they also sold Fiat. For essentially the same price as the Aygo, I still say the Fiat 500 is a thousand times better. In the used section it was just laughable. There was a Renault Scenic which was a good price but when I opened the door it made two very loud clunking sounds...piece of shit. Naturally they had just sold the 3 cars I went there to look at.

The only way around this may be to start driving stick again. You have no clue about my experience with a crap driving school Volvo S40 which stalled in every busy intersection in Sthlm. I could just not get the feel for that car. Okay, fine, when I drove a smaller Peugeot it was better and the VW Passat I rented once was sweet. But now I have been driving automatic for 5 years.

Maybe I should think of the fact that I sat in the perfect car today for all my criteria except automatic...the Alfa Romeo Mito is stunning!