Complete Strangers Wave at Me!

I'm guessing it's along the same path as the Macintosh. When you buy a Mac, you don't buy a computer, you buy into a community. About 10 months ago we bought a new car (second hand, but well worth it). As our family is expanding, we decided either to go for an MPV or an Estate. Well we narrowed it down, and found the ideal car which left the competition behind.

The Fiat Multipla is by far the ugliest car on the planet. My friends call it the pope-mobile, however I either call it a duck billed platypus, or (because of the colour of the car, and my uncle's history with gerry anderson) Thunderbird 2.

I have to admit, that when I first bought the car, and drove it around, it made me beam with delight, and I quite often had urges to wave at other multipla drivers as they passed by. However, my wife managed to surpress those urges in me. But even now, there's other multipla drivers that happily wave at me for no other reason than we have the same type of car, and are completely over the moon about it.

As I said before, it's the same sort of issue as with Macs, when you start using them, you just can't give them up. But with the Multipla story, it may have a shorter lifespan than expected. Fiat have changed the ugly part of the car...


It's no longer that ugly, but at the same time, I feel it loses it's identity. Despite it being a fantastic car, I fear that may not now be enough. But please feel free to give me a wave in your Multipla as you drive by!