I had the same dilemma a year ago. We ended up getting her a 2003 Acura MDX for $6000. This is the era where they had some transmission issues, but in our case it had been repaired, though even if it hadn’t been fixed the car was 15 years old and still drove well. We put some money into it...timing belt, brakes, etc,…

My camper van has an external spare that has a cover, a metal ring around the tire with a plastic saucer sort of thing.  Well, one day it broke. It was pushed outwards by the spare tire’s air bulging through the cords.  Apparently metal gets hot in the desert.

Yikes! Closest to this I’ve ever dealt with was camping at the top of a 12' cliff above a creek. The rain came down and the wind picked up...literally. We were being lifted off the floor when the wind blew under the tent. But the stakes stayed staked and we didn’t blow away, but the next morning we woke up and the 12'…

It’s the point of diminishing returns. You take GOOD pictures, but you still have time left in your day.  That TV isn’t going to watch itself.

We didn’t even try the CRV.  Being seen in one is like telling the world you’ve run out of ideas.

Nah, the turbo was pushing the top limit of our $ range, and my wife kept asking “why are we even here, I love my Subaru”. Apparently the answer“to test drive cars we probably won’t buy” doesn’t make sense to her.

Batman chic

My wife has the last gen XT, and before her lease is up I talked her into looking at the new Rav 4 hybrid and the CX5. Rav4...she said it doesn’t seem different than her XT, and the extra MPG wasn’t worth the extra $ over buying the XT at the end of the lease, especially since her lifetime average with the car is…

Star from me!

Don’t forget the weather. On a clear day, weekend ski traffic is horrible on I-70. This weekend?  Snow totals...

Bluetooth music is two thumbs-up, but I get weird connection issues on occasion.  But it seems my wife doesn’t have that problem, once I ended up driving her car and she was following behind in another car. Each time we hit a light and she pulled up behind me her phone connected.

My mom had an ‘84 Jetta with the Wolfsberg package.  That car was going to be mine until she nosed too far into an intersection and had it taken off by a truck.  The car’s nose, not my mom’s.  Oh, and my dad had a ‘67 Mustang which had a floorboard made out of a cookie sheet to patch the rust hole.

Bicycles are good.  

My wife and I took a sleeper car between Prague and Vienna a couple years back. It was the most wonderful way to sleep through an experience

I thought I wanted a plane until reading all of these comments. Now, not even a little bit. Maybe a train though...

Tiptoeing gets old. I love my GTI but hitting a hole wrong in my car feels like I ran over a baseball bat, where my wife’s Forester will waft right over that same hole.  

When I first read they weren’t sanctioned by the FIA I was like “Watt?”

Maybe we went to high school together.  The only one of these I ever saw was in auto shop class.  I’m pretty sure the windows got smudged with 30 oily kids peering in wondering “what the hell?”

And yet a garage from a home built in the same era is smaller than one built today.  

A movie about this guy!