Thanks very much for all your kind words and thoughts.....they are very much appreciated.
The hunt for a car continues.
Carole now loves the new Civic demonstrator we when out in...its much better than ever before. On our old model it uses a fairly crude Electronic Power Streeing that makes the steering effort too light at times (there is no direct link between steering wheel and front wheels from what I was told its all electro/mechanical and sounds a little too much like 'fly-by-wire' to me........I must have a chat with Colin Edwards some time
).
The brand new ones feel MUCH better - more solid with improved road 'feel' but minus the occasional gremlin that the earlier ones had......I highly recommend a test drive if anyone is in the market for a new car.
Cheers