I bought a new car. Why did no one tell me how good they are?

I’ve become a late-onset car nut. Lord knows how this happened. I used to mock people, men mainly, who would swoon over their cars, spending most of their weekly wages paying off a “prestige” vehicle, as if it mattered how you were transported from one place to another. But now circumstance has delivered me a new vehicle – nothing fancy, a base-level ute – and I find I’m in love.

It’s nearly 20 years since I last bought a car. Why did no one tell me how good cars…