Best driving shoes?

Driving a Toyota Prius these days and Brompton when not. Six months ago got rid of a Range Rover beast that was costing me 800 Euros a month to keep on the road a month - sheer madness. Wanted to trade it in against a Defender, but now I live in a world of budgets and children's future schooling costs.

I'm kind of sad, but not at all surprised that I am the only one holding down for the great American muscle car. Very nice cars in this thread, though. Especially Weejun and Tom Rath.

I'm in the market for a car just now. And man it is dismal.

Only fifteen years ago, you could still get a light compact car. A new headlight didn't cost 800 quid, and an old-school blacksmith could service it.

Not the 3-4 year old models I'm looking at now any more.

Cars are only getting one thing, and that's heavier and more expensive. It's a massive piss-take.

So I will embrace the soullessness of it all. Looks like my next one is a dreary little grey estate with a tiny diesel engine good for 60-mpg. Fuck.

Maybe it will save me enough cash in the next few years to allow me to run something a little more interesting as a second fun car...

^Yes, those type of camps can be pretty dire, especially in a desert Kingdom. At least in those places, you're a captured audience at you can save a shed load of money and in Canada you can have a beer.

Interestingly, the Kazak government have just established that 180 rufftie-tufftie ex-pat British construction workers in Atyrau oblast on the Kashagan project all have fake engineering degrees. Several in very senior positions. LOL!