I didn't notice at the time in the recent Grand Topic Tidy that one of the topics that disappeared (merged into "shopping" apparently!) was the Cars topic.
When I couldn't find the topic I started this thread in "Site Stuff" to ask where it had got to.
The lovely folks at @MNHQ said "if there's sufficient demand for a topic then we'd certainly consider adding it. Please start a thread and we'll monitor the situation" so I thought that a voting thread here would be helpful.
Obviously most of us won't be in the market for a new car very often - personally it wouldn't be more than once every 8 years or so, but when I do I would like to be able to browse threads from similar like-minded mums who have similar needs to me - and get recommendations according to what other people have found works for them. I find the more general websites about cars to be very offputting and although there may be a section that is about "family" cars it will often be full of sexist assumptions.
I think that a dedicated topic is important because that will help these threads to be all gathered together in one place and easy to find, and even if it doesn't get a huge amount of traffic because we will each grapple with these questions much less frequently than we need to ask for advice about pet care, education or TV preferences, it will nevertheless be useful.
Please vote YANBU if you agree that there should be a mumsnet board for car-related stuff
Please vote YABU if you think we should either go to other forums for car-related advice, or if you think it's OK for threads like this to be mixed in with other kinds of topics on much more "general" threads.