So says Rene Ball, who recently acquired one and tells us about it in our latest reader review.

I used to drive a Golf Chico 1.3 and the colour was crimson red. I worked hard to pay my car off and loved driving my little rocket.  My husband came home one day and he convinced me to go and trade in my car for a BMW.

I now drive a BMW 318i and the colour (oh yes) definitely a crimson red. She is a six-cylinder car and goes like a rocket. Just the other day my husband asked if I had named her and off course the name definitely had to be Rockette.

She has a cream interior and when washed and polished I am sure she goes a little faster. Never been a person to go mad about a car, but I definitely love my BMW.

Oh by the way my husband now drives the older version of the 5 series and like I say, once you have driven BMW there is no way you will drive anything else, well that’s at least how I feel.