The lady's new ride
The gf had a Nissan Altima for a number of years now. It runs fine and has just over a 100K miles, but she's been pining for an SUV ever since she got the Altima. (Fortunately grad school was a financial priority). During the past few months, though, we've been looking around at various smaller SUVs:
- Acura RDX: Very nice ride and finish. Plush seating and fancy gadgets galore. Only problem was that the pricing was high ($37K with the navigation), and its supercharged engine required premium fuel.
- Toyota RAV4: Toyota build quality certainly was a plus. However, it's one of those cars that got pricey very quickly. Gf doesn't need the V6, but wants the moonroof. Too bad, you have to get both. Thus, we were again looking in the mid 30's.
- Mazda CX-7: Smooth ride but had a chintzy interior. Pricing was fine, but again required premium gas, as it shared the same engine as the RDX.
- Nissan Rogue: This one just came out and is a small Murano. On paper, it sounded good (under 30K, 4-cylinder engine, Xenon headlights, Bluetooth, leather), but we test drove one and the inside feels as though you're in a much smaller car. Also, the visibility out the back was horrible and there was no backup camera or nav. The seats were super comfortable though!
Finally, we settled on a Honda CR-V which was redone for '07. Even though 2008 models are just coming on the lots, a few dealers still had the '07 models, and we snagged one for under invoice from the wonderful people at Honda Village, where my parents bought three cars from.
It's a sweet ride - Royal Blue with black leather, moonroof, and navigation. It's also got a killer sound system and four methods for music playback:
- 6 disc CD changer
- Aux input (for your iPod/MP3 player)
- PC card slot (reads MP3s off a memory card, but it requires a Compactflash card/PCMCIA adapter, which is about $60)
- Single disc CD that reads MP3/WMAs
posted by 'omie @ 9:00 AM
4 Comments:
I do LOVE that car!!
[p]The question is, how long would it last?
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