My current car is a Ford Focus Estate - but regardless of what I have, be it Del Boy Special or Rolls Royce, life up here would be very limited (unless using cabs for everything). Public transport - well, it exists but to regard it as useful makes it a bit of an oxymoron. At 81 I do wonder how long I will be able to drive (and Bloody Edinburgh isn't helping!), because once I can no longer do so, the outlook is a bit bleak. As a widower, every now and then the loneliness gets to me and I feel the walls closing in, so I'll go out for a drive for an hour or even two - just to get away - can't really see that as practical in a cab and certainly not by bus (an endangered species).
Mike