Friday, October 10, 2008

Proud owner of "new to us" car

We sold the van Monday September 29 to a young couple about to have their third baby. We'd thought about doing this for awhile when gas prices started to soar. We figured that if we bought something with better gas mileage we'd be able to take part of the gas savings and put towards the payment on a smaller vehicle. With only 2 kids left at home and one of them with his own car, we really don't need to have a van anymore. We started looking around for a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord. We took a couple of trips to Salt Lake to test drive different cars and we looked at several in the local area (learned a couple of lessons on the way too)! I looked online at KSL.com and AutoTrader and found numerous possibilites. We signed up for CarFax for a month of unlimited car checks and I bet I put at least in 50 VIN's - found good information and a few surprises also. We narrowed it down to 2 cars - one a 2005 Camry with 68,000 miles on it, one a 2004 Camry with 70,000 miles. The deciding factor for me - besides the smooth ride and almost no road noise - the moon roof on the 2004!!
So, Friday afternoon, October 10 we became the proud owners of a new-to-us 2004 Toyota Camry. The color was listed as aluminum/silver but the color that best describes it is "gunmetal".

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