Karen's Birthday Pictures

Our new ride...

This is a Honda Fit. We pick up our hog later this week.

We've grown weary of our current gas guzzling Volvo. We love the car, but it's ten years old, and starting to become a black hole of maintenance. We probably could have avoided some of this stuff coming due all at once, but we neglected the GD OLBOY while I was in grad school. We gambled and lost on the last round of replacements and tune-ups and now we're just going to get out of the car to break even.

The Fit is surprisingly big, for a go-cart. It actually is quite comfortable, with a shockingly large trunk. The real sweetness is the gas mileage in the manual transmission model - an average of 36mpg in Consumer Reports road tests. That gives this Cheetah about a 400 mile range on a 10.5 gal. tank. In our household that translates to $30 less per fill-up, plus 50 extra miles. Cha. Ching. This is our first new car, as well, so we're pretty excited.

Anna wanted a red one, but the sensible "storm silver" in the picture won out.