Say yes to the ….. car?

Have you ever seen the TV show where all these girls go to this one bridal shop and are looking for the perfect wedding dress? And when they find it, they all start crying and say that this is absolutely the one that I’ve been looking for and ‘I say yes to the dress’. So every time that I would watch this show, you would be able to catch me just rolling my eyes thinking that this is about the most unrealistic thing in the world. I mean – really? You just know that it’s the right one. yea.. ok

So last week Daryl and I went to a movie in Decorah on Monday and after it we decided to go driving around the car lots. We’ve become pretty familiar at looking at cars on the lots and knew just about everyone’s inventory, not only in our county, but the neighboring counties as well. This particular day I wanted to see if Daryl liked this one car that they had on their lot and if so, let’s drive it and buy it. I mean, we’ve been talking about cars for a long time right? OK,so that was the plan. So we pulled into the parking lot and was checking out the car that we talked about after the movie. And then all of a sudden we turn and …..there it was! I swear it was literally like we were on this one bridal show – but was looking for cars instead.  There in front of us was a car that we both really liked. Now up to this point we were still undecided on a car, suv, are whatever. But we saw a Chevy Volt and both new that if we liked it after we drove it – we were buying it. We’ve talked about the Volt car a couple of years back when they first started to make them, but haven’t really had a chance to talk more about them after that. We haven’t seen any on a lot or knew of anyone who had one. But on the way home we just knew that if we liked it – it was going to be ours before the week was over. So after a couple of trips to town to drive it and bring in a car to trade in – the car is ours. The car is really something different that we’re not used to. It’s strictly run on electricity and at night you have to plug it in to recharge it.

How we charge the car up at night

It does have a gas engine once the batteries are depleted, but the motor then just charges the batteries. So it’s strictly an electric car. OK, now how cool is that? The estimated mileage is around 93 to 95 mpg. We ended up trading in the car that we bought from Daryl’s Mom & Dad’s estate and kept the Pacifica. I felt bad for the Impala, but I just can’t trade in the Pacifica yet.

We traded in the Impala

Even though the Pacifica has around 238,000 miles on her, I just couldn’t part with it. So we’ve taken the Volt out a couple of times and so far so good. I guess only time will tell if it’s going to work out good for us. But just like the TV show – we said ‘Yes to the car!’