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After much research and many delays, Kim and I have finally bought a new car. It's a 2005 Toyota Prius, and we're already loving it. These things are hard to find: there's about a six week delay if you want to order one with the exact option package and color that you want, and when they do show up for sale on dealers' lots they tend to sell very quickly.
Kim and I lucked out with this one: we've been planning a car trip for this summer, but Kim's work vacation schedule suddenly shifted so we had just a few weeks to find a new car rather than a few months. That made a special order out of the question, but amazingly, someone else had ordered exactly the car we wanted and their financing fell through. (You don't even want to know how long and carefully Kim had to monitor how many local car dealers before we hit the jackpot.) So we rushed to the dealership yesterday, and came home with the shiny new car you see below. (A couple more pictures can be found on my website.) We drove the car 50 miles from the dealership to an errand or two and then home, at an average mileage of 49 MPG. Pretty sweet.
Kim and I lucked out with this one: we've been planning a car trip for this summer, but Kim's work vacation schedule suddenly shifted so we had just a few weeks to find a new car rather than a few months. That made a special order out of the question, but amazingly, someone else had ordered exactly the car we wanted and their financing fell through. (You don't even want to know how long and carefully Kim had to monitor how many local car dealers before we hit the jackpot.) So we rushed to the dealership yesterday, and came home with the shiny new car you see below. (A couple more pictures can be found on my website.) We drove the car 50 miles from the dealership to an errand or two and then home, at an average mileage of 49 MPG. Pretty sweet.
