And then we moved to a townhouse with a single car garage. Did I want to keep the Z as our "only" car? what disadvantages did it have in fulfilling that purpose? We didn't care about passengers, selfishly perhaps, but occasionally the recollection of the narrow shelf behind the MGB popped into my consciousness, prompted perhaps by the frustration of the Z car not having an easily accessible glove box for storing small stuff.
It did have a couple of useful boxes behind the seats, lockable if necessary, but to access each required moving the seat forward...something we found rather awkward, especially when the hood was up. You then had to duck & weave to see inside, & inevitably, what you were looking for was on the other side of the car.
And the navigation system, although probably state of the art in 2004, was really very low-res, with vast un-mapped areas in Van Isle. But curiously, I take exception to what those whiny automotive journalists - who are so lazy they blindly repeat each other in their copy - said about interior materials. I found the leather thick & pleasant to touch & the plastic around the dash, door & console to be reasonably pleasant both to look at & to use. Much was a mock carbon - fibre pattern but I preferred that over plastic pretending to be wood!
