So, this picture is what my new car looks like. This is not a picture of my new car....no, I took my camera, thinking I would take some photos of my first new car-buying experience, but instead I didn't. I didn't feel like being that geek today.It is so weird to have a car that no one else has had before. I'm not really super picky about cars, so having a brand new car was definitely nothing I had considered before we started this process. Of course, Ben made it all make sense; namely he pointed out that the cars in the model year I thought we should look at (2005, 2006) were holding their value so well, that they were really only $5,000 less and already had a lot of miles on them (we didn't find one with less than 30K for less than $17,000). So it just made sense to him that if it would hold it's value for that long, and since I would be driving it for many years (at least 5 if not 7), that we would want something that would hold value.
Secretly, I wish we'd found a hybrid; that would make me feel much more environmentally friendly. However, they are still way too much. So I'm holding out for the next car to be some sort of environmentally friendly automobile...if we haven't all floated away in the flood from the polar ice caps by then...
And now, since I woke up to the fuzzy orange alarm at 5:30am, I am going to go to bed.
2 comments:
Is that a Camry? I had one and love it - drove that sucker to over 140K miles.
I hope my next car is a) new since I've never experienced that new car smell thing and b) a hybrid since I drive the dickens out of cars here.
But even though I'm in a gas guzzing environmentally un-PC Jeep Grand Cherokee, that bay-bee is paid for so unless Ed McMahn or that dude in South Georga who won the Mega Millions decides to mail me a check, gas guzzling environmentally un-PC Jeep and I will continue our long happy non car payment relationship for a while longer!
Conrats on the new wheels!
It is a Camry! My last car was also a Camry (it was 10 years old and I drove it to 172K miles!)- I had wanted to get a hybrid, but at almost 5K more and with my driving being almost all in-town (therefore I would not be using the hybrid part all that much), we just decided this time to keep with a regular car. I'm hoping that in 7-10 years, when I'll get my next car, we'll be in a position where there are a lot of alternative fuel choices for automobiles!
I saw that mega millions guy...his wife wants a mercedes, so he's in a car buying mood, you could get lucky if you bump into him :-D
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