I have a new car.

[cjsmith]

Enormous thanks go to ladycelia, who called every Honda dealer in striking distance and found me the exact car I had chosen, in stock on a lot, at a very good price. Well, it was a very good price once she was done with the phone call. I am in awe.

I went down there this afternoon and signed a mountain of papers. There were not as many papers and signatures as when we bought the house, but there were way more than when I bought a car seventeen years ago, that's for sure!

Driving it back to work I felt like I was driving a bus. The significantly larger size will take some getting used to. I am also, apparently, an asshole magnet in this car. I got cut off four times in twenty minutes.

I took a picture of a big pile of papers, and another of the funkoid alien dashboard, but I didn't take the traditional picture of the outside of the vehicle. Then it got dark out. Pic tomorrow.

My poor dead car is still at the dealership. I hope to pick that up soon.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

We had a "roo bar" on the front of our car in Australia so that if we hit a kangaroo on the highway, it'd keep the engine out of our laps. (Kangaroos are very bottom-heavy, and total cars.) They cause such damage to pedestrians and other cars, though, that there's some move there to require drivers to take them off before entering the city, or one of various other modifications to city-safe their cars. Some city-residents have them because they make the car look tough (kinda like the big raised trucks in, say, San Mateo that have never seen dirt). We had ours because kangaroos were a real hazard in our neighborhood.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

On a tangentially-related note, I remember someone telling me once that while hitting a deer is Very Bad for your car, hitting a moose is worse. The nose of the car knocks the legs aside and the moose lands on the passenger cabin, killing everyone inside. I have no idea how true this is, but it does make me think about how the shape and weight distribution of what you hit makes a big difference to the outcome.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

Well the main thing I want it for is to, well, PUSH things! Car broken down and needs moved to the side of the road? *push*! And no worries about silly things like scratched paint :) When my dad's pickup broke down once I pushed it ~10mi home with my car (not the current one) but I ripped the front licence plate holder off going around the corner into the driveway... I needed push bumpers!!