Seeing double!!

We've gone a little crazy here: A month ago my husband traded his '99 Mercury Sable wagon (aka "The Family Truckster") in on a brand new 2010 II with bluetooth (nice), mats (necessary), and body molding (yeah, whatever). Then, unbelievably, I traded my VERY nice '06 PT Cruiser with 45,000+ miles in on 2006 Pkg 7 with 56,000+ miles just last week! It just made sense to get rid of both gas guzzlers while my PT still had some equity in it. The dealer gave me $8740 in trade, and cost of the Prius was $13,990--I figured that had to be a misprint, compared to everything else I had been seeing, but it wasn't!! It didn't bother me to trade for a little higher mileage than I had on the PT, one, because of all the kewl gadgets on it (The back-up camera is what really sold me!); and two, because I'm on two wheels (pedal-powered and Honda-powered) as much as humanly possible once my gravel driveway is ice and snow-free. So far, we're seeing low-mid 40's, but it's incredibly cold and the '10 doesn't have 1000 miles on it yet, so no surprise there.

If you had told us at Christmas that we would have TWO PRIORA in our garage within a month, we would have suggested that you go buy a lottery ticket because the chances of winning that were a lot better!

 

Thanks for the welcome!

I just filled up today and ended up with 42.40mpg!! I think that's great, given the fact that's it's been below zero here the last couple days. The PT never broke 20mpg all winter long.

 

I need to get some wax on that Barcelona Red to keep it nice, but I half blew up my 10 year-old buffer working on my husband's car. I had been having connection problems for awhile, then, while buffing out the third coat, it smoked and sparked. I waited a minute to try it and it still worked, but it doesn't seem to be hitting on all cylinders anymore. I want to replace it before I tackle my car, but I'm trying to find a higher quality used one. Oh, two days later he had his car Ziebarted:frusty:

In July, mine will be parked unless it's majorly raining or I have to haul something more than two saddlebags and a top case can handle!