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Family Car

Posted by jesstrump

March 27, 2007 |

mazda5.jpgEver since I was young I always said I would never own a minvan.  There seems to be no way of driving one without getting labeled with the frumpy soccer mom image.  It is of course all about image, isn’t it?  Well I ate my words a couple years ago and bought a van.  My husband and I were looking for something a little roomier than a car with both of the girls in carseats.  We came across a Nissan Quest and I just loved it.  About a year and a half after purchasing the van we got rear-ended and the van ended up being totalled.  We really splurged on the van and got everything from leather heated seats, multiple sunroofs, and two t.v. screens.  Can we say spoiled?  Well after the van was gone we decided to be a bit more “practical” and try to lower our monthly car payments.  We got a Dodge Durango.  Not a smart decision.  Our monthly payment was lower but filling it up with gas throughout the month has put us right back into the “spending obscenely too much on a car” bracket.  Sooooooooooo, on to the whole point of this blog.  I found the perfect car!  It is a Mazda 5.  You have to check it out.  They are so cute and sporty (uh..hm..image thing again), they have sliding doors (no more dings and dents into everything we park next to from my children trying to open their 100 pound doors), they seat 6 (I’ve blogged recently about my husband wanting more babies, right?), and it’s really fairly priced.   Read this review from CNN.  This writer doesn’t like the style as much as me but he has some good things to say.

Anybody want to buy a Dodge Durango??


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