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Cars I sat in today
Apr. 12th, 2010 08:34 pmWent to Honda dealer at 4pm. Drive
2010 Insight. Hybrid, the Prius competition. Size for mr. flea was big enough, but not by much. The back seat is pretty darned small. Drove fine. Price: maybe 20K?
2010 Civic Hybrid. Was bigger inside than Insight. Drove like a Civic; barely felt like a Hybrid at all. More pickup than the Insight. Price: hybrid was 22K, non-hybrid, 17.
2010 Fit. My god this vehicle is enormous inside. The river's seat doesn't crank down, but it doesn't need to. mr. flea had miles of headroom, and the back seat was palatial. From the outside it looks tiny. I cannot imagine how they do it. We didn't drive it. Price: maybe 14-16? Must check. They do have a stick.
Got kids, went to Toyota dealer at 6pm.
2010 Matrix. Fine inside - felt bigger than the Civic, not as immense as the Fit. Is actually a larger car than either. Gas mileage not great. They have a stick. Price: 19K. 0% financing with NO money down seems to be available for this one - yoicks! mr. flea drove it - said it was fine, nothing to get excited about.
2010 Prius. mr. flea really just doesn't fit in this. He drove it. Price: 24K+.
I am a fan of the Fit, for space, price and value. We'd need to drive it, of course. About 15 people on Facebook who have them told me they love them.
mr. flea just isn't excited about much of anything. He likes the idea of the hybrids, but they are just too small. The Civic hybrid is a possible, but we need to look hard at whether the premium for a hybrid makes sense - we don't drive that much, so our gas costs are already on the low end.
It's really not that fun to buy a car when you're not buying a Ferrari, I must say. Also, I had NO IDEA that Ferraris cost $300K.
2010 Insight. Hybrid, the Prius competition. Size for mr. flea was big enough, but not by much. The back seat is pretty darned small. Drove fine. Price: maybe 20K?
2010 Civic Hybrid. Was bigger inside than Insight. Drove like a Civic; barely felt like a Hybrid at all. More pickup than the Insight. Price: hybrid was 22K, non-hybrid, 17.
2010 Fit. My god this vehicle is enormous inside. The river's seat doesn't crank down, but it doesn't need to. mr. flea had miles of headroom, and the back seat was palatial. From the outside it looks tiny. I cannot imagine how they do it. We didn't drive it. Price: maybe 14-16? Must check. They do have a stick.
Got kids, went to Toyota dealer at 6pm.
2010 Matrix. Fine inside - felt bigger than the Civic, not as immense as the Fit. Is actually a larger car than either. Gas mileage not great. They have a stick. Price: 19K. 0% financing with NO money down seems to be available for this one - yoicks! mr. flea drove it - said it was fine, nothing to get excited about.
2010 Prius. mr. flea really just doesn't fit in this. He drove it. Price: 24K+.
I am a fan of the Fit, for space, price and value. We'd need to drive it, of course. About 15 people on Facebook who have them told me they love them.
mr. flea just isn't excited about much of anything. He likes the idea of the hybrids, but they are just too small. The Civic hybrid is a possible, but we need to look hard at whether the premium for a hybrid makes sense - we don't drive that much, so our gas costs are already on the low end.
It's really not that fun to buy a car when you're not buying a Ferrari, I must say. Also, I had NO IDEA that Ferraris cost $300K.
