The car saga.....Is over......I think!
As you know, I have been searching for a new car since mine was totaled on the 19th. I knew this would not be an easy project. My husband just doesn't care about cars and he would be happy with a piece of junk that didn't cost much.
I am slightly picky. I don't have to have the best, but there are a few requirements. Gas milage is important to me. Living in the country means every time we go just about anywhere we are using quite a bit of gas. Skip doesn't seem to get that or car, but I am the one who fills the tank.
Color is a HUGE factor for me. It may sound dumb, but I am all about color. And that color is RED! I will get black, but red is really my color for cars. I have had 2 red cars in the past and 2 black and a couple of ugly ones in between. A sunroof is also a big deal to me. I have had one in a car for the last 20 years and I wasn't about to go without one now. I also like a spoiler on the back, but that wasn't a deal breaker. I have noticed that just isn't the "In Thing" anymore with many newer cars.
So I set off on the hunt and found a few nice used cars that I could live with. Then Skip told me to shop for a new one, so I did and found my DREAM car. I had a Chrysler Sebring and LOVED it. Even though it was old, I am still upset it was totaled. They no longer make them, but replaced them with the 200. Now the body style is different and more modern than my 12 year car, but I still like them. I found on in red that had a sunroof and it was just fabulous. I drove it and it was wonderful. We then spotted the same thing in black and I loved that even more. Super shiney with chrome accents. I was set on it. Skip then decided we would never own a Chrysler again for some stupid reason. Well he went back and forth on that theory and then decided he didn't want new either.
So I found a red 2012 200 that had low miles on it and was red with a sunroof and the cost was much cheaper than a brand new one. But again he went on the Chrysler kick.
Basically I was under a lot of stress with him changing his mind every 5 seconds. I just gave up.
He then decided he wanted to get a red Impala at a local car dealership. It was sharp, with a sunroof and spoiler, but it had 98,000 miles on it and the gas milage was 19. That stressed me out a lot. I was getting 22-23 with my sebring and that was too low in my opinion.
This was a busy weekend with our local fair going on and school was even closed on Tuesday because of it. They have a kids day. We had plans to go with friends for the day. Well Skip decides we HAD to car shop yesterday. Even though he knew all along I would not be home and that Claire had dance in the evening as well.
Luckily my friend took Claire up with her and her kids and I met up later.
We took the impala for a drive and over to his buddy's shop to have it inspected. First off I hated how it drove and knew the brakes were really bad.
The inspection came to tell us we would have to make $1200 minimum in repairs in the next few months. Skip was still sold on it, but I drove it some more and I just couldn't love it.
When I arrived back at the dealership, Skip came out and asked me about it. I told him I just didn't like it as much as I hoped to and I was trying, but the brakes were just so awful and the car was a bit shakey.
He said the dealer wouldn't go as low as he wanted to with the price either and pointed out a car on the lot and asked what I thought of that one. It was a Chevy Cruze. I had just looked at a friends on Friday night, and though it was nothing fancy, it got great gas milage and most of the basics I wanted. It was RED too. He said the guy said he could get one with a sunroof too. So we headed out and looked it over and took it for a spin. It is a bit smaller than I had planned on getting, but still good enough for our family. It drove nicely too. Much better than the impala. The guy said he had located a couple of red ones with sunroofs at sister dealerships and Skip said, let's go for it! I was pretty excited. I am getting a brand new spanking car! It should arrive late today or tomorrow. They had to go to a dealership about 200 miles away to pick it up, so it depends on how fast they can get it here.
We had to take the rental back today, but they told us if it's not here today they will give us a car to drive till it arrives.
Now that that is taken car of, I finally can sigh relief that life can get back to normal. Slowly but surely everything has been settling down and this was the last link.
Now I need to get myself back to work full time and not stress over so many things.
) then i will take pictures and post them.
So glad the car drama is over and you got something you like and can enjoy. 
