The Midlife Blues.

Blue is the new red...

Women have a make over, a lift of sorts or a holiday with their best friend while men take that stage a bit differently. At least it seems so. On average there are more silver foxes behind the wheel of a coupe than there are long maned ladies.

Yes, the famous or rather infamous midlife crisis and the associated set of red wheels that is almost synonymous with it. Night and day / sweet and sour / thick and thin / midlife crises and the red coupe. Deep down I am curious how my Bobster will traverse that stage of his life and if he should choose that aforementioned car he will have me in the passenger seat telling him to slow down!

These last few months I have noticed that two recently afflicted mid-lifers' have splashed out on a coupe. A blue coupe and as both blues are the same hue it made me wonder about blue being the new trend for the over 50's? Turn 50, buy a blue car...

Or more a case of copying the neighbour which might soon turn our village roads into a blue lagoon as there are a whole lot of friends who are or just have turned fifty. Interesting times ahead and a nice change from black. For some reason most cars are black Audi's or Peugeot's and always remind me of Henry Ford.

From an aesthetic point of view, the blue is more fetching, much more suited to a silver head of hair and as it is still rare, also rather eye-catching. Of course taking a blue coupe for a drive makes it far from private. Just the other day I saw one of the blue coupes outside the local village pub and wondered whose it was.

Biggi