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Most of you know my little white Plymouth Neon - I've had it since March 2001 and it's been a good little car. BUT...it's been leaking oil for years - so much so that recently I've been putting many quarts into the engine between oil changes. AND I haven't had air conditioning since I left New York back in 2005 (not that I would use it often...it's just that sometimes it gets really really hot here.)

Anyway, the times they are a changin and it was time for a new car. AND thanks to the stimulus package, if you purchase a NEW car in 2009, you will receive all of the sales taxes and associated fees back as a tax credit! So I bought a new car. I fell in love with it when I saw it.

2009 Chevrolet Cobalt
4-door sedan
slate blue exterior
manual transmission
cruise control
power windows/locks
alarm system (the kind where you can't start the car unless you have my keys)
On-Star
XM radio
37mpg highway (fuel efficiency package)

AND they gave me $1200 for my Neon. I think I could have sold it to a private party and gotten $1500...but then I would have had to deal with selling it to a private party.

So here it is:
And here's what the back of it looks like at night
My little center console:
Gauges:
And On-Star on the rear view - it has it's own phone that I just talk to and tell it the number I want it to dial with pre-paid minutes and I can tell the On-Star folks where I want to go and they'll send turn by turn directions to my radio display! And it all works even if there's no cell phone signal so if something happens while we're out in the wilderness climbing or something, we can get help! AND (best of all) if I lock myself out of my car, they'll let me back in!!! All I have to do is call them. Too bad I didn't have it Wednesday night when I locked my keys in my car out in El Cajon...

So that's it. I'll post more pictures for Liz and my dad but only if they send me the pictures of Sawyer, Dylan and I from last weekend.
(In case you hadn't heard, I flew in to Rochester and surprised Liz for Mother's Day last weekend...it was fantastic!!!!)