Halfway through this CRAZY train ride of 2020 … Covid-19 better miss the train for 2021!
Car Shopping …. Husband: Needs to get good gas mileage … Me: NEEDS to be a pretty color.
Friendship makes the heart shine, like sunlight dancing on the water!
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car shopping: me – needs to last forever…
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That would be great if they would do that!
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that’s always my assumption going in…
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You are optimistic. 🙂
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Reliable / long term durability
Functional for what I need
Cost
Gas mileage
Cost of ownership (maintenance, repairs, insurance)
Bluetooth, carplay, whatever that entertainment crap is
Aesthetics
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Sounds like my husband’s list.
But you have to understand something. I am jinxed by the color silver!
Before i was married both of my vehicles were silver for back then Price was the main thing!
When we were married and my car died the best deal we found was once again silver and Yes my Windstar that is now on its crippled last leg is also silver!
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I think that silver/gray is the most popular car shade(?); it’s not really a color.
I have a blue car and a maroon car. The maroon car has never marooned me but the blue has left me feeling blue a few times.
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You are right its a “Blah” shade, not a shiny, pretty color!
Oh gosh! A bright blue is the color I want! No.it won’t make me feel blue.
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A blue car with good gas mileage. Sounds doable.
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Sounding doable is one thing but with my luck. LOL!
Though red or yellow would be fine too. 🙂 Bright red so that I don’t get marooned. 😛
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I see you getting an emerald blue hybrid Toyota RAV4.
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Not sure that fits our price range. 🙂
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Oh, I don’t know prices of anything as I am not really in the car market right now. I have just heard that that vehicle is popular.
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From what I read it seems to be but one never knows we may find a deal! 🙂
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It may be a buyer’s market right now.
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Thaf is what we are hearing which gave the motivation. Well that and the thingamajig rattling ….and.
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You got the size of vehicle right. I like driving vehicles where I can sit up high. Makes me feel big, at least while I am on the road. 🙂
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Make sure you ask for Emerald Blue. They’ll know just what to do.
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Oooh you didn’t say that! I can so see that coming out of my mouth accidentally! LOL!
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That sort of thing happens more and more as you get older.
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Haha!
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That happens to a lot of us — I think it’s because dealers buy a lot of neutral colors so they don’t get stuck with something that only appeals to a smaller number of buyers. The last time I bought a car, I wanted a pretty blue one, but instead I was practical and bought a white car in the end-of-season sale because it was too good a deal to pass up. My husband finally got away from all those boring silver and white cars with his current vehicle, which is Iridium Metallic (kind of brown, but reflects colors around it). I’m jealous. 🙂
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Those metallic colors are cool! 🙂
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looks just like the kind of ranking I would have…
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Yeah, I no longer care if I impress anyone. I just want a working car.
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Yes, don’t want a car that will leave me stranded on the road!
It doesn’t need to be impressive, just an actual color! 🙂
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I just want something that gets me from point a to point b…
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I got mugged at point b once
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Seriously??
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but at least your car got you there…
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So, you’re not having fun on the Covid train?
You need to have a pretty car so that when it runs out of gas it will look nice, while sitting abandoned by the side of the road.
I see you’re still wishing you were at a beach.
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Have had more fun on other trains!
Haha!! I have never run out of gas.
The beach is getting closer! One month away!
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Didn’t Ozzy Osbourne have some song about a Covid Train? Let me see….
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“Funnny!” No…No…! He did not! You just had a delusioned thought going through your head. 🙂
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I should run for President. Now where is my spray tan?
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Yup, you have the delusioned part down, after all. .you are friends with a talking cow. 🙂
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I have gotten some of my best political advice from seemingly dumb animals.
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LOL!
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I think I’d rather hop a freight train, than be a first-class passenger on the Covid train.
Are you planning to drive your new car to the beach? Watch out, no matter how pretty the color, the seagulls might decide to repaint it for you.
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Agree!
We have just started looking. We were thinking of waiting til next year but the thingamajig started rattling and the other thingamajig is leaking sooo may not be able to wait.
But no I won’t be driving to the beach, my friend wll. 🙂
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The thingamajig? Your erudition at automechanics is very impressive.
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Thank you! 🙂
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Me: needs to start when I turn the key or push the button.
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Ok, a car that runs and is a great color!
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Great color meaning all the same color and that color not just being the color of the oxidizing steel?
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Yes!
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Love your car shopping preferences. Just thinking about car shopping and I begin to break out in hives and start saying out loud, “Alexa, fast forward to 2021.” {crickets} 🚙
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LOL!!
I just hate dealing with pushy salesmen!
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Exactly. I may go the Carvana route.
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Hubby leaves the car shopping to me………………………… I get the best deal and discounts as well as special offers!
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Wow! What is your secret? 😉
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I take no prisoners Caroline.
This is a long post, but it’s the last section that might interest you
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/cars-today-and-yesterday/
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Thanks!
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The only car colors I see these days are White, Black, Gray, Silver, Beige, Taupe . . . BORING!!!
Good luck finding a car that gets you there in style WITH great gas mileage!
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Yes! Thank you! 🙂 It doesn’t need to be fancy, just colorful!
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I love the friendship one!
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Friends are priceless!
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Yes!! For sure. ☺🌏
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