Cars cars cars
My hubby has been talking about buying a new car next year. If everything goes right, we should be able to trade in our scion on a new vehicle. The biggest problem (besides the money!) is picking out which new car we would like to get. My hubby says that he really wants either a saab 9-5 or a 2010 vw golf. He’s never owned a saab before, and he is really impressed with the history of the company.
The saab company is a Swedish company, and they got their start making air plane engines. When I was very young my parents bought a saab. It ran a very long time and they ended up giving it to my older sister for her high school graduation present. I always thought it was a funny looking little car, and it only had three cylinders, which made it sound funny. My parents loved it though, and it served the family well. When they gave it to my sister they bought a new one for themselves. I remember learning how to drive in that car – it had a feature in it that my father called “free wheeling” which meant that even though it was a manual transmission if it was put in “free wheeling” mode it would not stall out if the driver wasn’t using the clutch properly. Looking back, I think that was a fantastic car to learn to drive in! I wonder if all the saabs still have that feature!
I’ve always been partial to suvs, though. The biggest drawback to them is that so many of them don’t get good gas mileage. I think that the reason I’ve liked them is that they are roomy, like the station wagons we had when we were growing up.