Day 5 - A New Vehicle

Well since I had been on a blogging hiatus I have not posted anything about my new car that I got in May.  The lease was running out on the Jeep (thankfully!) and I needed a new car.  After weighing the options of buy vs lease I decided this time I was going to buy my car.  I had not bought a car since my first car when I got my license so I was a little nervous about what to pick since I was planning on having it for about 8 years.

After planning for months to get another SUV of some sort and studying almost everyone that was not made by a division of Chrysler (stupid Jeep) I had my mind made up.  I was going to get a 2008 Honda Pilot - nice size, navigation, not a bad price, fuel economy was not too bad, liked the looks, reviews were very positive - I was happy with the decision.  Since I was doing my research far in advance of the purchase when it came closer to the time to "pull the trigger" and make the purchase something bad happened.  Gas prices skyrocketed, I am talking about frequent jumps of 20 cents every 10 days or so.  What was I going to do, what if that kept happening and I have a car that will cost a fortune to fill up and have NO resale value at all.  I was seriously afraid of $6 or $7 gas by the time the loan was up in 5 years.  I had to make a decision.  I decided not to risk it and to look at cars.

I now had a matter of a couple weeks to make a decision and had done virtually no research on cars.  It was time to cram.  I had like what I had read about Honda in general when I was researching the Pilot and drifted towards the Accord and Civic models.  The Civic seemed a little small for me.  The Accord had just about everything I like in the Pilot - liked the looks, navigation, great reviews - except the SUV size and SUV sized gas bill.  But since this was an almost $30,000 purchase I had to keep looking just to be sure.  I looked at the Ford Fusion, the Nissan Murano, Nissan Altima, Chevrolet Impala and others.  After all the research the decision was made, I was getting a Honda Accord.  After waiting for about a week for the right configuration to become available locally I took delivery of my new car, a 2008 Honda Accord Sedan V6 w/ navigation and leather. 

These photos ended up serving as practice when I took the photos of Bill's new car, I gotta say his turned out a lot better.  Might have to go and try to get some better photos with the Accord.

I am very happy with the car and hope to enjoy for at least another 7 1/2 years.