Travis and Michelle Fitzgerald's blog

Goodbye…

This weekend, we said goodbye to my car. A good little 2000 silver Pontiac Sunfire GT, it served well from its 90th mile during the test drive to giving it up 77,700 some odd miles later.

When I first bought it, I drove it from East Lansing to Ann Arbor under the biggest, most distracting orange harvest moon you ever saw. It got a little beat up in the move down to Texas when the trunk opened on the car carrier and busted out the rear window. We vacuumed out more of that glass this weekend…

But lately, it has started to deteriorate. Within a couple of months it had the fuel pump die (and we replaced the cracked windshield at the same time), the fuel pressure switch leaked and dumped all the oil out, and a fan blower conked out. Seemed like a clue-by-four that we’d better start looking for the next vehicle.

…And hello!
Yeah, this one’s blue. And in the sun, it sparkles!

We went hybrid, with all the gizmos and gadgets. (Toys? We has dem!!) Right now my favorites (aside from the hybrid drive itself) are the push button start and the hands-free telephone connection. It was a demo car so it’s not exactly new, but it only has ~4700 miles on it and seems well cared for. It’ll take some getting used to, especially since this is the first non-sport suspension car I’ve driven daily in a long time. But I’m willing to (re)learn!

~M

PS Some of you may note the pictures of Roland leaving one car and finding a home in the new one. This makes it all official, of course.