Sunday, January 2, 2011

New Car!

We are now the proud owners of a 2009 Ford Focus. It has about 13,500 miles on it.
At first we were fairly set on a Kia Forte - it looked great on paper - but decided against it after test driving it. It just didn't fit.
We went downtown in Salt Lake on Wednesday afternoon (the day our rental coverage ended) to test drive our future car. It's fuel efficient, reliable, and I LOVE the color. I have always secretly wanted a subtle metallic color. This shade is called light ice blue metallic. Jeff calls it Tinker Bell Blue, but I'm pretty sure he likes it, too. It's not too girly, right?
We thought it was kinda cool that the name of the place we bought it from was called Anderson Motor Co. We wondered if they'd give us an extra discount for having the same name... but no such luck. It was a small, family owned car lot that had good reviews online (we checked before we went), and I was very pleased with the service.
It started snowing while we were signing the papers, so we got to drive home on slippery roads. Fortunately, the car did just fine.
Here are some of our likes and dislikes. A lot of the dislikes stem from differences between our new car and our old car, so they're really just things we'll have to get used to.

Likes
  • color
  • how it handles - more "get up and go," wheel placement
  • two sets of keys with remotes - the Toyota only had one
  • has a button on the remotes for the trunk - our last car didn't have this
  • driver's seat height is adjustable
  • size of the trunk - a little larger than our last car, but the car length overall is shorter... how does that work?
Dislikes (Things we'll have to get used to)
  • lights are not automatic - we actually didn't realize this until after we'd bought it... we got pretty used to having automatic lights in our last car
  • no good storage space to put our sunglasses
  • windshield wiper control - it's on the left instead of the right side of the steering wheel, you can't flick it to spray the windshield (if you flick it, it's the turn signal)

3 comments:

Suzanne said...

Tinker Bell is GREEN. :P (Well, her outfit, at least.) Congrats on the new car.

Marie said...

How exciting! And good timing, too.

Kris and Kelli said...

We have a focus and we love it. The car seat for the new baby will have to be in the center because it won't fit behind a seat, but we fit two children comfortably for road trips. It's a great family car. Congratulations.