Our new second car looks just like this. We have been debating becoming a two car family again. Tough call....gas prices are high, insurance is high, the economy is low....umm....anyway, there were a lot of factors to consider. Practicality finally won out - it is just getting harder and harder to prioritize who gets a vehicle at any given time.
With college starting up on Monday for Alex and Nathan, transportation is soon going to be an even bigger issue.
So we caved in. Look at it this way, for 2 1/2 years we have survived with one mini-van and Steve's vanpool. We've done a wee bit for the environment.
The thing that has kept us only owning 1 car is a mutual antipathy to car shopping. Steve doesn't like to do it, and I pretty much won't go. I'll go at the end and sign the title stuff, but please don't drag me around for days looking at cars. Technology (and some nudging from Nathan) totally helped us out this time. Steve did most of his shopping on the internet. He was able to compare prices, gas mileage, etc...from the comfort of his office chair. Sweet. I was even willing to take a gander occasionally at his computer.
Steve and Nathan found a car, test drove it, then came home and picked me up. I didn't even know what car they had picked. As we were parking at the car lot Steve says "that's the car right in front of us." I thought they had been looking at a Ford something or other...well, Mercury makes Ford cars right? I totally cracked up when I saw what make the car was.
Mercury Mystique. Hee hee.
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That sounds like a sci-fi meets Bond movie meets film noir flick.
Mercury Mystique. The movie.
It sounds so much more intriguing than reality.
In reality, it is a nice little sedan, smaller than our old Taurus, larger than your Corolla.
Buying used cars makes me nervous - but with teenage/twenties drivers - well, you don't want to spend too much on a car that will more than likely get totalled in a couple of years (that's our experience - 4 licensed drivers, 4 totalled cars). That said, we've had pretty good luck otherwise - and having a great mechanic doesn't hurt either.
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