Looking At Cars

Keeping with having to be brief, due to broken hand, it has been hard to identify a topic I could do as such!  Yesterday's post actually took me three days to type!  Argh!

So, you might remember my car died a few months ago.  It runs just good enough to go about thee miles at a time and I carry four gallons of oil with me so I can get home!

Swede has decided it is time to buy a new card.  He has been sniffing around Youngest Daughter's new car and has been very impressed with it.  Her only stipulation has been he can't buy a Rav4, or at least not in the same color!

So last week we tried to go sniff Toyotas but the entire sales staff took off to go to the local Seahawks Football game ... really?  We went and looked at Hondas across the street.  But yesterday Swede decided that it was time to try again and drove the one hour plus back down to my little burg.

We went and walked the lot.  Liked the Highlander and the Rav4 for Swede, Tacoma or Tundra for me!  I quickly found a "notice" on the Highlander stating that it was not intended for off-road driving ... a SUV that was not designed for off-road?  Really?  That has to be a huge whoops!  Swede lives in the woods outside of Everett, so off-road is all he has to start and end each day!  So no Highlander for him.

We concentrated on the Rav4 .........  Swede decided it would be a Hyrid, I have no idea why, other than he saw there was a big rebate which reduced his final cost.  But we test drove it - and it was very nice.  Swede then did a melt down .. not real big on spending money!  But, about a half hour later he recovered and went back and ordered one in a beautiful blue color!  So, in a week, it ought to be here!

For me:
I looked over the Tundra and the Tacoma.
I really liked the Tacoma size and options but the Tundra gets better gas mileage!  HOW?
So still undecided.
And I have set August as my buy date, so no hurry.

But for you:
www.fueleconomy.gov

The is a federal site with 48 printed pages of every manufacturer and model for 2017!
Fascinating to read!
Fascinating that Toyota would have it xeroxed for you!
Fascinating to see how 'old school' many manufacturers still are!

If you are interested in a new car, definitely print this report out!  Forty-eight pages in size.