Yeah Malta is a cool place to live in, roads aren't that good to be honest, but you can't have everything ;) It's actually a late 1998 car. It was bought new from the toyota agent here and had one previous owner. The car has 1st-4th gear and reverse....we also have another starlet which is exactly the same (even with same date of registration), which was bought new. There aws a choice of 2 models if I remember correctly, Standard (STD) live the ones we've got and LX, which comes with 5 gears, a dash clock and some other extras. Maybe the UK cars have different specs