Goodbye... My sweet Lady.

There is no secret about it, the economy is bad… really bad. Still you gotta live your day to day. I have slowly yet surely lost one of the loves of my life. In 2001 I purchased my first vehicle. It was a beautiful ride a 2004 Honda Accord EX. I called her, “The Lady” and I loved her hopelessly for the longest time. A year ago my girlfriend got a new New Honda Accord which basically beats up on my car and makes it feel bad. Not to say that my car literally has depression issues but truth be told the car is 15 years old and well let’s face it anything that is 15 years old be it your child, your clothes, a CD, your car isn’t as cool as it was 15 years ago when you brought it home for the first time.
I have come to realize that as soon as I can afford it, (Code for when I graduate and get a decent job) I am going to have to get a new car. Where once I thought that, “The Lady” Would be my one car ride for the rest of her life I must realize that she’s got to go. So what to trade her with? I have thought of three vehicles that might make life better.

1. The Toyota Prius:

It never ceases to amaze me how a car that starts at $22,000 can bring the wow factor of vehicles that cost twice or three times as much. I could get into this ride quite easily and be king of the road. I even read that many of the Oscar nominees are going to be escorted to the ceremony via Prius.
But one needs to really wonder if they are buying it because they like the car or because they want to feel like Leonardo Dicaprio while they are driving their car.

2. The Tesla Roadster

The beautiful synchronization of form and function. I first saw this car years ago, it is pretty well known to the public although unknown to the public at large, if that makes any sense. It supposedly gets about 360 miles on a single charge and does it for about 36 cents a gallon. Obviously this is an equivalent comparison since it doesn’t run on gas and I don’t know where they got that figure but it does sound cool to me. It blows my mind, but let’s face it… I just don’t have $110,000 to spend on a car yet. Or if I’m honest ever… maybe someday but I doubt it.

3. The Chevy Volt

So this car should be called Superman because it is supposed to save the world. It’s a Chevy… enough said about that but one should think about it. Now this is saying that GM will be around by 2010 some might say of course, others might say that it isn’t crazy to think that they might not. Like I said assuming GM can pull things together enough to pull this car out of production. It is supposed to go 40 miles without the need for gas and the will kick in a gas motor that can take you another 300 miles. Sounds good to me. It is priced at $40,000ish. Granted that, “ish” can be very important, but let’s face it when you hear that your car won’t take any gasoline the only thing you think is that this car might as well cost $0.

Oh well until then I’ll just be content with my Lady, after thinking what’d cost to replace her I might have her longer than I realize.