My stepmom has been wanting another car. The plan was to get something practical for the area and hand down her Subaru to my younger brother, who just started driving.
Practical for the area:
- AWD or at the very least front-wheel-drive (gets through snow better)
- Traction control
- Place for coffee mug(s)
- Safety and capability driving in snow and mud or, in other seasons, 4 miles down a dirt-and-gravel road twice a day
- Not low to the ground
She also liked the Subaru Legacy and a couple of other makes but those ideas were short-lived.
Yesterday she and Dad went out "car-browsing" just for kicks. They weren't planning on actually buying anything for another couple of months. Last night she drove home in a... ready for this?.... 1996 Camaro convertible. She saw it, she liked it, end of story. Looks like this one:
So much for practicality! But she said the same thing I always say... you don't find a car, it finds you. And that one, for some unexplainable reason, found her. We went out for a quick drive and it's really a fun car; it will be even more fun the first time she tries to drive down the mountain with a foot of snow on the ground. ;-P They got a good deal on it. Only has 62k miles and is clean as can be, and it's green with a tan top and interior. She's already learned the hard way that "E" on the fuel gauge means "EMPTY," not "you have another 15 miles to get gas."
If I lived where they did it's probably one of the last cars I'd consider buying, but sometimes you gotta have a little bit of fun. She's going to love it. If not, I'll wait until the middle of winter when she's missing that AWD and offer to buy it from her... *evil grin*
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