[Christien]

Oh dear Christ you sold a Porsche for a smart. Your maintenance bills likely just tripled. I owned a 2005 passion cabrio for 18 months/17k kilometres. I put over $2000 in maintenance into that POS. I spend probably less than half that on p-car maintenance in a year. Door handles. Seriously, when was the last time you had to replace door handles? I had to replace both, 2 weeks apart. EGR valve, leaky gas tank, leaky a/c, it was at most 2 months between repairs.

I hope yours ends up being less problematic than mine.