One Step at a Time: Another Ride...

After having my Mazda RX-8 (RoXy) for a couple months and spending too much money on fuel to run that honey of a ride, I decided I needed something smaller and more fuel efficient. I started just browsing, just for fun, to see what some of my options were. I still wanted to stay with a sporty car because I'm not ready to jump to sedan status just yet. I found a nice little Honda at a used car dealer in Orem and test drove it. The first thing I noticed was that it wasn't as smooth as RoXy and wasn't as cool and sporty as her, so I took it back, thanked the man and continued on my quest. I drove other cars like a Nissan 350z, BMW Z3, and was checking out the Honda S2000. The nissan I drove was too trashy for the price they were asking, I couldn't sit up straight in the BMW and my friend Dustyn has an S2000 and I didn't want to copy him. After much thought and studying on that Honda Civic I had previously test drove, I came to the conclusion that it was what I wanted.

I made the sad trip to the dealer on a Monday afternoon to trade in my beautiful gas guzzler, and of course I had traction control off so I could enjoy the rear-wheel drive one last time! After signing all the papers and doing all that time consuming stuff, I got the keys to my new 2002 Honda Civic Si! It gets 30+ MPG, which is a big difference from RoXy's 17-20 MPG.

Sure, it's not as sporty and it doesn't catch eyes left and right, but it sure saves me a little bit of money on fuel and I think I'll be able to find someone that can fix a 4-cylinder motor easier and cheaper than someone to fix a rotary motor. I feel that all in all it was a good trade, even though at first I thought it looked like a mini minivan. Chelsey didn't like me saying that since she loves the car, so I've been able to look past the shape and enjoy the ride!

If I get a tan over the summer and can manage to grow some dirt on my upper lip, maybe I'll put some money in the car to make it look like this: