I am still vacillating on
a new car. As I have been blogging for
over ten years I can look back and see that I go through this phase every four
years. Which, keeping a car for four years is actually incredible considering
my history and eighteen year old level of instant gratification on everything
in my life.
Sure the Jeep is fine,
other than the fact that Mike, the bestie, who also is a certified expert Jeep mechanic,
doesn’t want to fix it any more. I mean, his only replaced the fuel pump three
times. In four years. But, now he wants to break up with my Jeep. So, now I
have to decide what car will define me for the next four years.
Mike says that I don’t like
a car unless it’s attached to a “holier-than-thou cult.” I need to drive a vehicle
that has me standing apart from the muggle drivers on the road. Not fancy, like
the BMW emblem on the hood would make me feel superior, to the contrary. He believes
that my car needs to give me the same feeling that a freshly pressed vinyl
album of an obscure alternative band (one you’ve never heard of) gives a
bearded hipster. A hip-alternative (yet
totally non-douchey) to the BMW, but just as snow flaky.
Yeah. He is totally
right. But, he spends a lot of time around people and the relationship with their
cars.
So, you would immediately
think something like Mini Cooper or Subaru. They kind of have the same sensibilities
as my Jeep Wrangler. Alter-hip-cool. This was what I thought until I sat at an
intersection in the Boulder, Colorado. There were six cars around me, waiting
for the light. All six were blue Subaru Outbacks. It’s like the city has a law
to ticket non-Subaru drives inside the city limits of this up-market college
town.
So it’s back to thinking
about the Volkswagen Alltrack wagon. A sporty station wagon that is just sporty
enough, yet station wagony enough to say, “Yeah, I drive a sport wagon. I’m so
cool.. But I don’t need you to tell me I’m cool.” But, there are so many things
to consider. Like will the bike rack on top look imposing enough. Like the
Yakima Rack attached to the spear tire of my Jeep. Sure I’ve never used it,
but, it looks like I’m a mountain biker.
After next weekend I really
need to decide, God help me if my fuel pump goes out on my Wrangler. Again.
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