Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Our new ride...

We have been talking about getting a bigger family car for awhile.  We LOVE our Mazda 3, but it is slightly too compact for having car seats.  I had to pull my seat almost all the way forward to get Mason's car seat into the back seat. 

We thought a lot about different 7/8 seater SUV's.  Most of all we love the Chevy Traverse.  We finally went to test drive one.  It was a way nice car.  Very basic, but had the look and feel that we liked.  Then, we found out it would be more than $30k!!  We changed our minds...

We started searching on KSL for different used, but still fairly new cars. (less work to keep them running) I decided to widen the search to include something other than just SUV's... MINIVANS!!  And, yup, we found our match!

We drove up to Ogden to test drive it, and instantly fell in love!  It has all the kit and kaboodles that you would ever need in a car: built in navigaion, 6 disc CD/DVD changer, hookups for video/sound input (for ipods, videogames, etc), entertainment screen with wireless headphones for the rear passengers (or just run the sound through the whole car), remote start, store n' go seating/storage areas, remote opener for the sliding and back doors, leather seats, heated seats, gas/mileage info, etc., etc.  The best part is that it was WELL within our budget.  We actually have a car payment that is $6 more than our Mazda 3 payment, and we even swallowed up the rest of that loan into this new loan.  We LOVE our new car minivan!  It is something I never thought I would have, but I am SO glad we got it!!!






We love our new car!!!

2 comments:

what a life said...

I love your new minivan too cuz we got to go on an amazing little trip that was way fun! Had plenty of room and a nice tv to be intertained while driving in the car for soooo many hours!

Chase and Teresa said...

Still can't believe I didn't come see it when we were at Mom and Dad's. Next time.