New love

For six years now, I have been driving a management car. It is large, tall, black, and imposing. When I glide along the highway, everyone moves aside. Sometimes people are startled by it. I have been approached about it by a left-leaning colleague. In a very long line at the coffee corner, where she was at the front and I was at the back, she asked loudly, “But May-Britt, why are you driving such a car? Why? Why?”. “It makes me look so slim,” was my answer, which I actually had to laugh at myself.

But now, six years later, my vehicle is being sidelined. Not for environmental reasons, sorry colleague from the coffee line. Hate me if you must, but that’s just not my issue. It’s mainly the money that I think about every month; holy moly, I could have done so many other fun things with that. A tank equals the pencil jeans from Acne, and for the road tax, I could buy Gucci heels. And those aren’t even on sale.

Driven by shopping lust, I decided to wrap myself in a smaller and more affordable car. It had to look a bit nice and be handy. Give me your car and I’ll tell you who you are, that kind of thing.

Renault sponsors Holland’s Next Topmodel and, since I get to give my overly strict comments there every week, I was asked if I wanted to drive the new Renault Twingo. Talking about the right moment. The next day, my poor old lump gave up immediately. Poor thing.

Yesterday, together with Annic van Wonderen (founder of I Love Fashion News) and Cynthia Schultz (Miss Lipgloss), I recorded the call for the Fashion Challenge. With that, you can win a city trip in the Renault Twingo, and €400 shopping money. Look here how you do that, it’s simple and so much fun.

To activate that fashion challenge, I was busy all day. Something with my new sweetheart, the Renault Twingo, and a lot of hangers that I had to hang in nice boutiques in Utrecht. Best of both worlds because I was with that nice, handy little car, in my hometown Utrecht and while I was being very useful with the recordings for this spot, I could also winkelen. I’m going to save a lot of money in the coming months and that has to go somewhere, you understand.

When I was driving back to Amsterdam at the end of the day, a car with four men stopped next to me at the traffic light. Their window down, my window down. Where I had bought that nice little car. I wanted to tell them. They thought it was a treat. But the content was also worth it. Window back up.

Later in the traffic jam in the other lane. Man in convertible. First a wink, then a wave. I call it the Twingo effect. This weekend, Twingo and I are going to Antwerp and Paris together. Because that’s what you do with new loves. We’re going to experience a lot together. I can feel it in everything.

To be continued.