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When MD came home from college she started a new restaurant job the very next day. Which was awesome except she had to use my car to get to and fro. With me working from home and under a work travel ban, it wasn’t necessarily a problem, but her hours and days are customer service hours which is inconvenient for me. She’s a good driver but neither of us loves her driving my favorite car I’ve ever had.
Couple that with the impending tariffs and what they’re likely to do to car prices, and we decided we wanted to add a car asap. We test drove a Ford Focus we liked, but the ones in our year/price range have sus af transmissions. We drove a beat to Hell Sentra with a dodgy brake pedal, but a friend (who works for the local massive auto auction evaluating cars) warned us away from Nissan CVTs. We tried to drive a Kia Rio and a Mazda 3 but they sold before we could get there. Basically everything has doubled to tripled in price from when we bought the teen car five years ago. Anything approaching affordable goes quickly right now.
I had resigned myself to paying much more than I wanted to get something remotely trustworthy. I browsed FB marketplace obsessively when an almost but not quite too good to be true deal popped up on a 2015 Mini Cooper. At first I thought MD would reject it - it’s the color of a school bus (I’d call it yellow, officially it’s orange) and has racing stripes. Instead we both fell quickly in love with it. Husband wasn’t home to consult and the car was listed both for sale for a flat price and was in an auction with less than three hours left.
I took a gamble and made the call to buy it. Turns out Husband also loves it. We picked it up this evening and MD is out showing it to her bestie. (I got to drive it the hour ride home through the twistiest backroads PA has to offer)
I love a deal. And silly colorful cars.
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