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I wanted that car to last for ever. Not just because it cost me a bunch of money, but because I really liked it. I planned on taking care of it and making sure that it lasted for a long, long time.<\/p>\n

That was almost six and a half years ago. I found out last week that some of the problems which I just considered a minor annoyance of having an older car had turned into serious issues that force me to do something I really dread.<\/p>\n

I have to get a new car.<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t have to get a brand-new car, but I do need to get a replacement for my beloved Saturn. Since they have gone out of business, I lost the security blanket that made shopping for my current car so easy.<\/p>\n

This is my second Saturn. I barely considered other manufacturers when I bought it. My previous car had treated me well, and Saturn had a new model coming out, one which ended up winning a bunch of awards. I believe I bought the first one in York County, not that the distinction means anything.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have that luxury any more. Before I even got the final diagnosis on my car, I started looking at other options. I needed to come to grips with the task ahead of me as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

I hate that my car means this much to me. I wish I could walk or bicycle to work. I have had that option before and loved every minute of it. But my commute makes that impossible. I spend about 10 hours a week in my vehicle, making car buying slightly stressful.<\/p>\n

I need something which will last, but I can\u2019t spend too much because of how much I have to budget for gas. I want some sort of hybrid, but need to consider whether the gas savings justifies a higher sticker price. And don\u2019t even get me started on how awesome an all-electric vehicle would be because they cost too much and don\u2019t have the range needed for my commute.<\/p>\n

So the hunt begins. I have already started to obsessively visit dealer websites and plan on making some Sunday visits to try and map out my strategy before getting asked a hundred questions. I need to get better educated on interest rates and blue book values, especially since I might buy a used car for myself for the first time in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

I wish I could spend that time waving a magic wand over my car or making some sort of sacrifice which would fix its problems and give me a few more years without a car payment. I\u2019ll just have to remember the good times, like making it safely to the airport in the rain that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within the first week or so of buying my car, I had to fly to Ohio for a friend\u2019s wedding. I drove to the Harrisburg airport for my departing flight, gripping my steering wheel as if my life depended on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-driving","wpcat-3-id","wpcat-108-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}