JCShutout wrote:Not to hyjack this thread, but sold my Ria Rio recently and upgraded to a real mean machine... a Yaris. Watch out now! 38mpg highway fools!
Similarly, I actually sold my 2014 Ram 1500 4x4 Ecodiesel and bought a... 2011 Suzuki SX4 crossover. AWD with a 6-speed manual, DVD/GPS nav system, and only 19k miles on the engine - because it was technically less than 6 years old and had less than 100k miles, it qualified for a lifetime powertrain warranty from the Dodge dealership (engine, transmission, and entire AWD drive system). It's been an absolute blast to drive. Ended up paying $6k cash on top of the $3500 extra I got in trade on my truck to buy the car outright. Yay for no longer having a $550/month car payment!
Also, congrats on the Yaris. My wife had one in college, and it is the only car she ever had stuck in winter. Not in the snow, but actually the ice. There was a snowstorm one winter day at the plant when we both worked at the same location (she was a college co-op at the time), and she parked over by the cooling tower, which causes a lot of ice formations due to the evaporating steam and the fact that it was a whiteout blizzard. Well, when she got to her car, her tires were literally frozen to the ground in ice. The poor car didn't have enough power to actually break free from the ice.
Luckily, there were a few engineering co-ops that were also walking out, saw her problems, and offered to help. They had some hockey gear in one of their cars, so they were beating away at her tires with hockey sticks trying to break the ice.