Yesterday after work, I went over to Mr. W’s house, we grabbed his daughter and went to a local college where she was taking Geometry as summer school to fulfill a HS requirement, she dropped off a transcript request order, and we went to dinner at Orange Mining Company. In those drives, I must’ve passed 6 or 7 Infiniti G35 Coupes on the road. When we were parked at the restaurant, there were two immediately next to us! I don’t want to buy a car that has apparently already saturated the SoCal driving market! Okay, Lexus IS it is.

Yeah, I’m thinking of cars again. #1 enticement is that Mr. W wants to buy my current car as a starter car for his kids, and he could pay a tad more than a dealership would give me as a trade-in, but less than if he were to buy this car off the market. #2 enticement is that my ex (no, that THAT one) has some connections to car dealership people and he’s trying to find me a good deal. I hope that happens. I also discovered that if you’re a Costco member, you can go thru Costco to affiliated dealerships and pay just $500 over dealer invoice for a car. So it looks like the most I’d be paying is $500 over invoice even if my ex’s connections don’t go thru. AND…I think I can do this without touching my prior fund that I was gonna break to make this purchase with.

Strangely, tho, the car that still keeps turning my head is the new Civic Coupe (2006 North American Car of the Year). I can’t get a Civic, tho, it’d be like trading down; I’d lose 10 horses, it’s still 4 cylinders. It IS darn affordable, tho, and it gets 30 miles in the city, 40 miles on the highway.