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Used to like it, but it faded over time, mostly due to the car being far beyond its prime. Not that I minded driving an old car, but I could no longer assume that it'd last the entire trip without trouble.
Then a little over a week ago I bought a new (to me) car. And that's when I noticed what I'd been missing for the past few years: I'd started to enjoy driving again.
Another factor was that once upon a time everything I owner could fit into my 1996 Volvo 940. And I took advantages of this a few times by moving across Europe. Later I became a family man, so that wasn't the case anymore, but it was OK: The entire household could fit in the car with a lot of luggage space as well.
Around the time when the old car symptoms really started to show up more and more frequently, we got a surprise 6th family member, and traveling anywhere now involved a lot of planning and usually sticking the oldest kid on an airplane or coordinating with someone else driving the same route.
But my new car (2019 Volvo XC90) can fit everyone, so now we can just hop in the car and go. So come summer I think we're just gonna go on a road trip down through Europe for the first time in 15 years.