{"id":4492,"date":"2015-05-13T22:15:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/?page_id=4492"},"modified":"2015-05-13T22:15:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:15:47","slug":"march-madness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/4-wheels\/march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4494\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20071212-2-Nissan-March.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20071212-2-Nissan-March-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nissan March under a rainbow near Nyangabwe Hill\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20071212-2-Nissan-March-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20071212-2-Nissan-March-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20071212-2-Nissan-March-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20071212-2-Nissan-March-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20071212-2-Nissan-March.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nissan March under a rainbow near Nyangabwe Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2006 or thereabouts Mrs Knott passed her driving test, so to make family logistics easier we decided to buy her a car of her own.\u00a0 Low running costs and cheap to buy\/repair\/replace were the order of the day.\u00a0 Imported cars from the Far East (Japan, Singapore) are popular here, but most of them come with automatic gearboxes and I was of the firm opinion that experience should be gained on a manual gearbox.<\/p>\n<p>As such choice was limited, but eventually we found a black Nissan March with a 900cc engine, manual gearbox and surprisingly good Sony stereo.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives christened it the &#8220;Mascom 10&#8221; in honour of the smallest denomination of prepaid cellphone units&#8230; I refer to it as either The Cockroach (won&#8217;t die) or The Rollerskate (when nipping around town).<\/p>\n<p>In 9 years I think we&#8217;ve put about 100,000km on it and it now acts as stand-in when we need to go somewhere that a smart\/big car is unsuitable (shopping at informal traders, town at month end, taking pets to the vet, rubbish to the tip).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4493\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG-20111125-00122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG-20111125-00122-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dogging in a March\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG-20111125-00122-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG-20111125-00122-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG-20111125-00122-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG-20111125-00122-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG-20111125-00122.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dogging in a March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 or thereabouts Mrs Knott passed her driving test, so to make family logistics easier we decided to buy her a car of her own.\u00a0 Low running costs and cheap to buy\/repair\/replace were the order of the day.\u00a0 Imported cars from the Far East (Japan, Singapore) are popular here, but most of them come &hellip; 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