An eco-sports car?

Just read an article on Digg about the new Lotus Elise and was thrilled to find out that there are some sports cars out there that are not completely destructive to the environment! The new Lotus Elise boasts the lowest C02 emissions for performance in the world and does 45 miles to the gallon (apparently that's pretty good for a sports car!) My nearest Lotus dealer is in Maidstone so may pop along and take a look - slightly out of my price range at the moment but good to know about for the future...and for dreaming about a little too! Lipscomb Lotus in Maidstone seem to have a really nice looking showroom so may go and be nosy! http://www.lipscomb.co.uk/lotus

Top Ten Girly Cars!

It is my aim to compile a list of the top ten girly cars around at the mo. The below is in no particular order, just a bunch of girly cars that I like. Perhaps if anyone in cyberspace is reading this, they can help me number these cars in order of girliness?!

Top Ten Most Girly Cars

• The diddy and incredibly cute Ford Ka and Ford StreetKa
• The VW Beetle - to make it even more girly go for the pink convertible version and the flower on the dashboard
• Ok, so am being a little biased with this one but only because I love it so much! Chevrolet Matiz
• The ever-popular Ford Fiesta - go for a truly girly colour like purple and some glitzy accessories to make this car even more girly
• An Audi TT Convertible - this is a gorgeous girly car, particularly like it in red
• The world's best-selling roadster, the Mazda MX-5. Granted this is not purely a girly car and it could be argued that this is a unisex roadster but come on, it looks far too small and sexy to be anything other than a girly car!
• Mini Cooper - ok, so this is more of a unisex car but it still has to make the list for being so cute!
• Being so undeniably girly and so small it could almost fit in your handbag, the petite Renault Twingo is a fabulous girly car
• The uber-sexy BMW Z4 oozes style and, although not cute and cuddly, will make you feel amazing when you take it out for a spin! Plus, can be picked up for a pretty good price as a used car
• Again, another cute little run-around, the zippy Citroen C1

Looking back over this list, think I may have favoured the cute little cars too much (with the exception of the awesome BMW Z4). Maybe I should also compile a list of sexy cars for girls? That'll be the next project - watch this space!

Sparky and sparkly!

In my hunt for a girly new car, I've just come across the new Chevrolet Spark. This car has loads of customisable features like the sparkly graphics that can be added to the side of the car and the matching sparkly mats too!

Quite like the fact that it's a 4-door car but looks like a 2-door car (the back door handles are hidden!) and also like the cool sports bumpers, chrome front grille and rear spoiler - I'm not a girl-racer, I just think these features happen to work well on the Chevrolet Spark.

Shame there aren't more girly colours - like dusky pink - and also would be good to have even more customisation options but all in all, I quite like this car!