Tuesday, June 20, 2006
It has just recently hit us that due to the new addition that is coming....we have a lot of changing to do. We will need a bigger vehicle and we need to do some remodeling in our home. We currently have a 3 bedroom home and planned to create a 4th room eventually....Our vehicle only seats 5 people, we will be a family of 5. 2 carseats and a teenager will not do well in our current car, plus we usually have an extra teen or two with us. We started looking at vehicles last night....we were on the fence about what we wanted...DH would like another SUV, I am leaning towards a minivan (the official car of the soccer mom). It is totally amazing how much minivans are geared toward a mom...we had never looked at them before, so this was a new experience for us. The SUV's we looked at really dont work for our situation...in a 7 passenger suv, usually one of the 2nd row seats folds down so that you can access the 3rd row, not something practical when you have 2 carseats strapped in. The minivans have an aisle in the middle of 2 captains chairs so that a few teens can move nicely to the back.... We did suffer from "sticker shock"...couldnt believe that for all the "fun" gadgets and nice accessories a new minivan will cost somewhere between 35-40k! (OUCH!!) Because our teen will be 16 (LORDY,LORDY)soon, we will be keeping both our current vehicles..so we will not have a trade-in to work with....of course after seeing the prices, my darling husband suggested that we not get a new car and he will just follow the rest of us around in our 2nd vehicle if we need to go anywhere...LOL! We have a few months before we make a decision on a car...but we are willing for anyone's input on which minivan is the best out there. Now for the renovations......who knows when that will get started!!!!!!
We are leaning(so far) towards the Honda Odyssey
But we liked the Toyota Sienna too
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