Inside and out.
Jane has Wiishu's 'tour of the new car' pix up…
by CJ | Jul 21, 2013 | Journal | 35 comments
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It looks great! I hope you will have many years of happy driving with it.
Jane’s not excited about the car, is she?
I think it looks wonderful and I love the color. I shall be watching for the new car’s adventures (do you name your cars?) as you travel around to the various Cons. We are looking for our next car, the Acura being 12 years old and still in great shape.
We want better gas mileage and to not have the need for “hi-test” that the VTEC engines need. Acura has a hybrid coming out. We rented a Ford Fusion three weeks ago in Detroit when we were there for a wedding. We were dismayed at the ground noise and the lack of good finish, very bad coachwork. So, that’s out. Every car we get now might be our last car given our age and the vicissitudes of driving with my vision and, well, just our age. Of course, we’ve told our son that he will have to catch us to get the keys!
We waited for Subaru to do a hybrid but were not satisfied with the cramped back end in the Subaru Crosstrek hybrid: there’s hardly room for one of our grocery orders.
One of the things we enjoy about the Prius is the quiet. The Forester is a bit on the noisy side, not from want of quality, really, at all. It just is. The Prius is smooth on the bumpy stretch of I-90 downtown; and you can converse without raising your voice. This is nice.
We haven’t quite named the new car yet. We’re thinking about it.
The seafoam colour is beautiful, and the car looks very sleek and well-finished.
The colour made me think that a name like ‘Atlantic’ might suit, and now I’ve got the song ‘Mon vieil Atlantique’ by Charles Trenet stuck in my head.
Somehow, the various modes of the ocean in that song fit my mental picture of that car.
Sorry, I could only find a fragment of the music online, and it’s in French, so likely only BlueCatShip might be interested.
Hanneke, merci, que je suis bien intéressé. Cette chanson est charmante.
Hanneke, thank you, I’m quite interested. That song is charming.
The car color reminds me both of sea foam and of verdigris. Copper, bronze, obsidian, and terra cotta would go very well with that. Heheh, Oklahoma red dirt wouldn’t clash.
So I could see the car fitting in from an atevi or hani perspective. 🙂
I like my Acura because we can converse with ease. But, she is getting on the elder side, not mileage-wise, but just age.
I did like the one time I drove a Prius (many years ago in Santa Monica). Perhaps we will look, but some of the southern states are taxing hybrids because they don’t pay enough taxes in gas usage!!! Well, we shall see. (I do like the color you chose; it is quite beautiful.)
I can’t seem to find the pictures; where should I look?
Sue
Jane Fancher’s blog…link over on the left sidebar!
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The Pride
Well, you’ve got the crew members, haven’t you?
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Happy New Car! It’s a beauty!
Looks like the potters glaze Celadon….which has a wonderful history and various stories of how the name came to be. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celadon
I find names come into being on their own. My 4Runner is the Red Rabbit (after the Energizer bunny) because at 222,100 miles it just keeps going and going and going. As long as I am driving under 5000 miles a year it’s not worth it to think about another car.
Congratulations on the new wheels!
A thought for all of us with newer cars. (I got my 2003 Maximaq last Monday.) It took 2 days in the heat to finish clearing my Escort of all the stuff. I bought three 10 gal. Rubbermaid Roughtotes to keep in the trunk of the Maxima. I refuse to let it get full of junk. The Roughtotes can hold the groceries and can be carried in the house. They hold up well over time. They also stack neatly if you don’t need that many. I’m going to use a milk crate for anti-freeze, brake fluid, etc. in a plastic bag. They also make cargo mats for trunks! I got the heavy floor mats this weekend and put them in yesterday. It rained this morning. I had to go to the garage to find one of the five umbrellas that was in the Escort. I have photos of the empty Escort for those friends who have seen it in the past. I never worried about someone being in the backseat. There was just room for the driver in the front. Now to find a nice basket to hold junk in the front.
Great idea about the roughtotes!
I see what you mean about not being able to see the front of the car. Car got no nose! I agree with Smartcat. The car’s name will be revealed to you anon. It was thus with my doughty Toyota Crayola, which turned 26 this year. My brother has an aubergine colored Mazda that is known as “The Grape” and a van that is known as “The Biscuit Tin.” My mother’s fire-engine red Honda became the Hot Tamale when the AC went out.
Since it’s celadon green, maybe you should give it a Korean name? What was the name of that Queen in the Korean TV series?
The friend who is likely to buy my old Taurus has a clone of your Toyota Crayon, but his has gone to the Moon with over 240k miles on her, on an island no less. She is presently held together by good wishes and JBWeld, apparently. It’s getting to the point where he can count on putting in about $300 in work on her about every quarter.
The Shuttlepod has landed! It arrived this morning, and was unloaded first thing (having been the nearly last thing on the boat). Dark blue, and zippier than expected, with an incredible cargo bay for its size. I had a nasty turn when I saw another Fit on the dock, and thought they had mistakenly shipped the wrong car, but all is well.
Great Queen Seondeok? It would be a nice tribute, and the color is certainly appropriate 😀
That is such a funny post!
Our second car is my 1985 Olds Firenza, Wesley. He’s got a whopping 85,000 on him, half of which he had on him when we bought him in the early 90s and a couple of thousand of which are from the drive up from OKC, but then he’s literally our emergency car. Sometimes we need two cars because we have to go different directions at the same time, sometimes the other car needs to be worked on.
I’d probably drive him more if his air conditioning worked….Other than that, he’s in great shape and great fun to drive. All the young bucks look at him scratching their heads trying to figure what he is. (I had them remove all the ID plates when they painted him.) I just really wish he had a manual transmission. I kept dreaming that one day he’d mysteriously disappear and come back all snazzed up with a hot engine….
But then I wouldn’t be able to afford the tickets. 😀
The Taurus is Jack LaLane, being in almost as good condition as the Crayola and similar age (1994). “It’s not the age, it’s the mileage.”
My parents named most of their cars, and I seem to be continuing the tradition. They had a 1952 Ford named Betsy and a used station wagon named Calibacchus because it was from California and its big engine could pass anything except a gas station. Our green Geo Metro was Kermit, the snazzy Pontiac Vibe Natasha, the workaday Vibe is Moneypenny, and the white F250 is Moby.
Best wishes for many years of fun and safe travels in your new car!
Our last two Subarus were called Altivo, or ‘Tivo, for short, unrelated to the recording device—named after the attitudinal white horse in Eldorado.
No no no! That was just the silver one. What did we call the red….
No, the red one WAS Tivo I!
I have threatened to name the new Fit the Shuttlepod… it’s coming in either this afternoon or tomorrow, and I am excited!
Yay! Shuttlepod is great!
We’re excited for you!
Felicitations on the new car!
Re: names being revealed… my blue Subaru was revealed as a Jezebel, said name discovered when it stalled in an intersection with a semi bearing down…
She lives! My first car, a blue Plymouth, bore that name—she was notorious for stalling in every puddle.
Jezebel Mark II didn’t like rain either. Many a day I had to sit out the worst of a storm in the parking lot so water wouldn’t blow under the hood and stall me out while driving. Then there was Herman, blue Volkswagen, which had no heat, necessitating scraping frost off the inside windshield while driving. And Elliot, blue AMC Eagle, which needed the doors locked at all times or they’d swing open while rounding every corner.
Never getting another blue wagon. Never.
We named our Forester Eeyore. Now I think it’s a bit of a mistake to name a vehicle. It was actually emotionally…awkward…driving away and leaving Eeyore in the used car lot. Had the car been unnamed, perhaps it wouldn’t have been so. Didn’t stop us from naming the new car, though.
ooooOOoo, fun! I’ve liked Priusi since sister rented one back when the second model came out as the shuttle for the family Christmas bru-haha. I rode back and forth from Mass to Rhode Island half a dozen times in the back seat and it was actually very roomy. She flat out refused to let anyone else drive though! Anyway, the whole adventure became very memorable and has become known to the family as the ‘BIG HONKIN’ TREE Christmas!’and to Enterprise Rental Cars as ‘A VERY good reason for the extra insurance.’
A very nice go-buggy! MY last vehicle was ‘BeepBeep,’ (a Wrangler) but the current one (a Ford Ranger in a Mazda dress) isn’t named. It was very hard leaving poor BeepBeep, after 13 years and only 40k miles. Even though the current one gets twice the miles to gallon… I miss my jeep!
We get attached to our cars, too. And I was beyond flummoxed when, just after our crosscountry trip and with our dear old Subaru fil-thy, we went to the dealership just to try a Prius to see if we even liked it: falling in lust with it; and then having the dealer want to assess our Subaru right then, sell us a PriusV, and then TAKE our Subaru on the spot and lend us a shiny red Prius sedan until the V (which was somewhere in Oregon) could be shipped in and fitted to our specs. OMG. We were not ready for this. Exit us, leaving in a red unfamiliar car with a raft of small Toyota shopping bags containing our ‘stuff’.
That’s a rather extreme form of “setting the hook” isn’t it? No cold feet and backing out then! 😉