Tomorrow we go & pick up the new
addition to the Koski family.
Don't worry; it's not a new kid or a
new dog or something equally insane. Instead, we are heading up the
road and picking up Loraine's new car, a 2018 Chevy Sonic. That's
right; after five years the neon green Mazda gets to find a new home
(and, speaking of which, if you know of anyone who wants a used car
with only 9,000 miles on it, a car that's in immaculate shape, let me
know!) and the newcomer, in sharp black, takes its place in the
driveway where, in all honesty, it'll spend most of its life.
But it'll be a good life. Loraine
treats her cars better than most people treat their kids.
While she was researching what car she
wanted she came across several trends that we both consider kinda
disturbing. The first was that it's almost impossible to find a car
that has a manual transmission any more. We both grew up driving
sticks, and have always driven sticks, something that actually comes
in handy in Europe, where almost every car has a stick. But not
here; nope, in the U.S only five percent of cars still have a manual
transmission, which probably accounts for the fact that she had to
special order her car from the factory.
At least it allowed her to get a car
with a stick.
Secondly, she actually had trouble
finding a small car with good gas mileage. Like me, she tries to be
environmentally aware and drive a vehicle with as small of a carbon
footprint as possible. However, it seems to be getting harder and
harder to find cars like that, as Americans increasingly buy these
huge chunks of metal that cost as much as a house (and only get
slightly better gas mileage than a house). In fact, it wasn't really
a surprise that Ford on Wednesday announced they're getting out of
the “car” business all together, except for Mustangs and one
other model, to concentrate exclusively on pickups and SUVs.
Hopefully, by the time Loraine thinks
about buying her next car (sometime in the 2020s) there will still be
“cars” around. But I'm not holding out much hope.
So that's what we're doing tomorrow.
I'll post a picture on Monday so you can see what the newest edition
to the family looks like!
Have a great weekend,
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