Our New Addition

Remember on Sunday when I said we were going to start looking at cars?  Well, we accidentally bought one later that day.  Bud and I aren't ones to overthink things like this so it's not really a big surprise that we impulsively got him a new ride without test driving 65 cars.  Besides, we feel pretty confident that we would have gone back and bought this one even if we sacrificed the next 4 weekends to car dealerships around town.  So what'd we get??

2013 Chevy Equinox

I'm too lazy to take a picture of the actual car so here's a shot off the website. 

I wish this was a picture of my backyard, but no...another picture off the website.

We were honestly planning on getting a Ford Edge or Ford Explorer, but had a REALLY, REALLY bad experience at Mike Shad Ford so that put the nail in that coffin.  We went there and said to the sales person, "We're interested in an SUV and would like to know the difference between the Edge and the Explorer."  The guy looked at us like we were idiots, pointed at both cars and said, "well, uhhh, that's the Edge and that's the Explorer."  I kept asking him very simple questions like "What's the difference between the Limited, the SE, and SEL?"  and his response everytime was "Just read the sticker on the side of the car and it'll explain what's on each car."  Whaaaaa?  Then, he walked us over to the used car side of the dealership and tried to sell us a 2010 model with 50K miles on it.  Whaaaaaaaaaa?  Bizarre.  Before I got all Whitney Houston on Being Bobby Brown ("KISS MA' ASS!") we decided to go home.

On the way home I saw the Chevrolet dealership and said, "Let's just look at the Equinox," which is all we intended to do.  Long story short, the sales guys were great (as in, they knew something about the car they were selling) and offered us a good deal.  Word to the wise, ALWAYS go on the last day of a month when you want to buy a car.  We didn't have the Altima with us (or even knew the model) and they offered us $1000 over the Kelly Blue Book value knowing that it needed repairs and had 116K miles on it.  It was too good to turn down so we went for it.

The best part?  Bud LOVES it.  Like, he-can't-wait-to-sit-in-traffic-LOVES-it.  He had a moments hesitation thinking that it might be a girly car becasue the sales guy thought we were looking for me and he may or may not have googled "Is the Chevy Equinox masculine?" before we made our final decision, but ultimately decided that it was the car for him.  I think it's quite manly.  He chose Black on Black (very Jay-Z). 

I think his favorite part is the fancy-schmance radio and iPod hook up.  We aren't very 21st century with our cars so this is the first one we've had with those kinds of bells and whistles.  It's very exciting.

My favorite part is that it's CLEAN (oh his last two cars were...uhhh...not clean), that it gets really good gas mileage, and is safe.  Fuck...I already sound like a boring mom.  Here's something to cleanse that palette.

Thank you, Allyson, for the introduction to Die Antwood.