Daddy's New Ride

We've been car shopping for a while now. We found out this spring that our Buick Regal was failing in well, pretty much all areas. The cost to fix was more than the car was worth. With 170,000 miles on the odometer it has been a wonderful car but it was time to say goodbye to an old traveling companion. We were disappointed because our goal was to hit 200K on it.

The Buick was our first big purchase together. Jared had accepted a job in Houston and I was still finishing school at Iowa State so we needed a second car. We were visiting my parents in Manchester and while waiting for them to close down the shop one night we decided to go look at the used car lot down the street.

The manager asked if we had ever driven a Buick and we said, well no, but our grandparents drive one :) He threw us the keys without even asking for a drivers license, told us to go put ten miles on it and come back. It was a sweet ride, the price was right and we purchased it the next day.

Seeing the Buick go was hard, (it was traded in on the drive the Texas drive clean machine program) it was being scrapped. Lots of good memories in it, heck two of our children were practically born in that car (thank goodness for leather seats :)

This time we wanted something that was safe and got great gas mileage. We almost purchased a Prius but it had some problems we didn't feel comfortable with (like it would kick into gear when the battery switched to the motor when in neutral).

We had been eying the Honda Civics but most were out of our price range. And then we found this little gem. Its a 2007 Civic. I wasn't crazy about getting a coupe until Jared talked me into driving it. The price was right, its in excellent shape and I was getting too many calls from Jared to pick him up because his car wouldn't start. Oh and it's Blue! We have only owned white cars except our van which is puke gold, ugh!So I suppose Jared deserves something a little sporty after driving a Buick for seven years (although I steal it whenever I don't have to take three kids, because you know it gets better gas mileage than the van :)