After too many hassles with the MiniCooper
(not the car itself, but the fact that the dealer is more than 2 hours away....)
every single thing has to be special ordered, and only the dealer can have the special tools,
and it takes a flat bed truck and TWO full days to get an Oil Change....
now that it is out of warranty, BMW service prices kick in,
and it needed new, EXPENSIVE tires....
I decided to trade it in.
I did my research (but of COURSE!)
and decided I wanted (sorry about the ad at the beginning,
but this video does a GREAT job, describing)
a Honda Fit, Sport edition.
I cleaned and polished the Mini, drove it on a curvy road to
wish it farewell,
got to my Honda dealer (I *heart* my Honda dealer!)
and lo and behold...
ONE left.
Color, black.
While I was buying it, no less than FIVE customers
offered to pay MORE than the list price to get one today....
(and one guy even stepped into the sales cubicle with a hundred
dollar bill....)
It's Mine, and I adore it.
The process took a little over two hours
(most of which was cleaning it up to New Condition,
which had to be done by HAND as we are under MANDATORY
water restrictions, NO car washes or hoses ALLOWED....)
It has all of the Honda features I've come to expect,
including (blessedly)
the ergonomic seats from the Accord
and the blue dash lighting which is ever so much easier on my eyes....
and 41 cubic feet of Yarn Storage.
A port for the ipod, an awesome stereo and
it changes lanes faster (in TESTS of course, ahem,) than a Corvette!
Yep.
A Good Fit, indeed!
Saturdays is supposed to be about posting the Skating
synopsis, but I'm still on
restriction with my FOOT,
so no news there.
sigh.
I'll get heaps better gas mileage to and from the rink
when I CAN start training again, though!
Wheeeeeeee!
I just LOVE that new Honda smell!