Cars...what every girl wants to talk about?

I have gotten comfortable with driving the same vehicle for years until my total lack of care results in expensive repairs to the point it makes more sense to get another vehicle. I have driven my Jeep Grand Cherokee since she was new, going on 5 years now.

Before that I had a 1989 Saab 900, which i wanted because it was Swedish, bought used. It also had a turbo charged motor which made it really fun to drive on trips. Honey hated it because it was so cramped inside, but I loved roaring down the country roads near our house and open the sun roof on a sunny day. Sadly she started to leak fluids, and one day a pully flew off (HONEST, WHO KNEW?) which explains why the AC quit...poor car had 189000 miles on it at tradein time.

Before that was a Toyota Pickup (4 years was enough of that), and a slew of American cars that lasted about a year or so each, all developing problems-Chevy truck, too expensive to run, Chevy car too low a roof, other chevy car bad brakes that never could get fixed right, Chrysler car leaked, and our Dodge Spirit- now in Dodge spirit world, blew the engine after 56000 miles (Honey has an acronym for that car-POFC-Piece of F(ornification)C(ockydoo)p

Thanks to my freind eric, I was reminded of the cars of my youth, my own vehicles i bought with my money-My Dodge clunker in Junior college, my Toyota Corolla in university, and the series of wild cars i boughtoff people in Germany, either soldiers or military civilans who had a vehicle they didnt want, or couldn't ship back for some reason or another. I had some little red car, forget what it was-; BMW 2002; my boyfriends corvette and after i ditched the BMW ( I tried to drive it under the back of one of those army trucks, I think they were called duce and half, which I think means they were 2 1/2 ton trucks I had a Mercedes, which was no big deal..and then when I came back to the USA, I bought a MGB from an air force guy at Pope AFB.

thinking of that car brings back good and bad memories. more good. I am laughing, thinking of how i called it my little bounce mobile, for reasons i wont elaborate on.

Realizing that fuel is only going to keep getting more expensive, i am trying to figure out when i will have to switch cars again...if i could afford a Tesla, all electric, i would do it today...no gas, so i could give OPEC the finger...sorry, thats a bad image, but I always have sticker shock at the pumps these days...on one trip last summer filling up the 6 cylinder Jeep cost us almost $70 !!! But then again it was over $3.5 gallon. Amazing. Same trip in Utah we filled up for about $42 I think

Read about Tesla and then wonder why the big car companies aren't doing this now also.