At some time in your life a 1 to 10 scale car won’t suffice anymore. At this point in your life you should consider a car that is 1 to 1 scale and has the controls inside of it instead of on a remote. Even though I already had one of those, I decided it was time for a new(er) one and this is what I came up with.
This blue monster of steel is a Citroën C3 Ambiance which was built in 2002, has run little over 82000 km, has a 1.4l 4 cilinder 8 valve engine good for something about 72hp. 72hp isn’t much, but it’s more than adaquate. Over here in the Netherlands it’s hardly ever possible to drive faster than the allowed maximum speed anyway and a nice side effect of a low power engine is that it’s fairly economical when it comes to gas.
This version of the C3 is the second most luxurious edition of this model. It has air conditioning, electrical windows, electrically adjustable side mirrors, arm rests for both the driver and the front seat passenger and both front seats have adjustable height. Other than that there isn’t really anything of note except that this car is about the most comfortable car I have ever driven in. Oh yeah, it has these useless extra lights at the front that you can never actually use legally over here… unless you can’t see any further than 50 meters or less then 200 meters on a freeway… Pretty useless… Looks cool though.
Usually these cars have a factory built in stereo, but that was missing in this one. It had a third party stereo instead of the factory default one and I had that one replaced with the one I already had so I could still use my USB micro SD card reader as my prime source of music and other noise inside my car. It does sound a little flat though… Kind of like Skwisgaar Skwigelf from Dethklok on their first album. Takes a few songs to get used to the sound, but then it’s good enough. Don’t have the money to get real decent speakers and frankly I don’t want to spend any money on it even if I still had it.
