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Car shopping
Feb. 8th, 2006 11:42 amIn the past few weeks, we've started doing some preliminary car shopping! We were thinking of sticking with the same type of car that let us, basically, walk away from a four-roll accident... but the Hyundai Santa Fe has been upsized since then, and they've brought in the slightly smaller Tucson to fill its old niche. So far, I haven't been able to test drive anything, but I'm rather hopeful that I'll be able to start as early as next week.
( So, here's the current list of car possibilities: )
There are probably more out there that we haven't stumbled across, but that's basically the array of vehicles we've gone over in the past few weeks. I can't wait until I can actually start with the test-driving portion of this endeavor. I've actually managed to take the MINI out twice now... last week, when I really shouldn't have (I could shift up, but couldn't shift down with my right hand, and couldn't actually use that hand on the steering wheel, either), and last night, this time with Rackham in the car to help me get it into reverse and to help with the parking brake (both of which still require two hands on my part). We might even give it a try this weekend... though I'll likely only be able to test drive one car before tiring out. We've also started thinking that it might be a good idea to be ready to buy a car on President's Day Weekend... not a bad time for sales and such.
( So, here's the current list of car possibilities: )
There are probably more out there that we haven't stumbled across, but that's basically the array of vehicles we've gone over in the past few weeks. I can't wait until I can actually start with the test-driving portion of this endeavor. I've actually managed to take the MINI out twice now... last week, when I really shouldn't have (I could shift up, but couldn't shift down with my right hand, and couldn't actually use that hand on the steering wheel, either), and last night, this time with Rackham in the car to help me get it into reverse and to help with the parking brake (both of which still require two hands on my part). We might even give it a try this weekend... though I'll likely only be able to test drive one car before tiring out. We've also started thinking that it might be a good idea to be ready to buy a car on President's Day Weekend... not a bad time for sales and such.
