Aaron and I are in the market for a new car. I am insisting upon a wagon. It will just be easier for our dogs, our sports, and our lifestyle (no babies yet, but thinking ahead.)
Please view your options. These are the models we are considering, but want your valuable input. If you have feelings about any of these cars, please leave us a comment. Be sure to cast your vote -------------->
Pictures:
Saab Wagon
VW Passat Wagon
Subaru Outback
Volvo XC Wagon
8 comments:
hmmm i like them all i will have to look again before deciding.... they all look like you
My first thought (before I have even looked at any of them) is the joke about only lesbians drive Subarus. Of course, my father's wife drives an Outback...
I just can't decide. We have done a ton of research on each model (all have their quirks) but all look great. My only problem is that NONE really come in standard... all are automatics. I hate driving an automatic. I am a control freak, I like to decide when my car changes gears- it shouldn't take it upon its self.
Aaron's argument, (he drives a stick) is that it will be my car, and if we have children he doesn't want me to have a stick... he says it will be too hard for me? I don't understand that reasoning. It's not like I am going to drive with the kid on my lap, or rest him/her on the gear shift...
Argh. I really just love my Jetta, but I fear the Jetta has one wheel in the grave the other on a banana peel.
I vote for the Volvo.
My reasoning is, number one, their safety record. If you are talking about having this car with kids then there is nothing more important than safety.
I have also been told that Volvos last forever. Which is a huge bonus.
I don't understand Aaron's argument about the stick. IMHO, mother's learn to drive while handing one kid his sippy cup and the other a box of animal crackers, all the while being kicked in the back by the child sitting directly behind her, listening to I'm a Little Teapot being SCREAMED, during a snow storm, going up hill, trying to park. What's one more thing?
I have a Subaru Outback and I don't think I'm a lesbian. I do live in Waitsfield, Vermont, however, where upon receiving my telephone book and an assortment of coupons to local businesses (buy one haircut and get the second cut half price at Uncle Pete's Wild Waitsfield Hair Emporium!), the town also hands out complimentary Subaru Outbacks (wagon only)! I'm not kidding. One in four cars in Waitsfield on any given day is a Subaru Outback. It's quite the task to find your Outback in the grocery store parking lot. Hordes of Patagonia-wearing, child-toting trustafarian moms wander confusedly through the parking lot clicking their automatic door openers like a carnival-goer lost in the house of mirrors.
Jessi, check out the Jetta wagons, or, Nina and my favorite, any Jetta TDI. Expensive now, but you can run it on veggie oil or biodiesel.
Okay... whoa.
1st Erica... email me with the Lesbian joke.., gotta hear that, I have a lesbian friend who actually drives a subaru...she would love it.
2nd... Charlie you really should start a blog, you are an amazing writer and you make me laugh uncontrollably. Your comment was overwhelmingly funny!
It's not really a joke, Jessi...just more of a cliche - at least here in Wolfeboro it is :)
OK Rich and I voted together for the saab, the argument against the volvo is the cost to repair it, but we both like the saab, what kind is it 9.3 or 9.5? Rich says if you go Saab DON'T get the 9.2 NIGHTMARES to repair then are Saabaru's-
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