I just bought my honey a new car

conservation on my mind

Published on April 28, 2005 By Moderateman In Personal Relationships

I just completed a transaction to get my wife a new car, all done over the phone, fax and email,

tonight at about 7:30 I will take delivery of a brand new 2005 honda civic hybrid {47 city 48 highway} with gas prices what they are
in california I figure she will save about 6 bucks a day just in gas {she commutes 64 miles one way 128 miles a day} her present car gets 24 miles a gallon so she will be getting 2 times the miles per gallon. yayyyyyyyyyyy

total cost including tax and liscensing is 20, 845.42 7 grand down and roughly 358 a month payments.

color is magniesim and the car comes loaded , no options available because it already has everything.

I sure hope she likes it, heh

Comments

foreverserenity

on Apr 28, 2005

Thank God for technology uh! She has to like it, she will like it! What color is magniesim? Is that a plum or deep blue or something? Just curious.

Moderateman

on Apr 28, 2005

Reply By: foreverserenityPosted: Thursday, April 28, 2005Thank God for technology uh! She has to like it, she will like it! What color is magniesim? Is that a plum or deep blue or something? Just curious.

it's a gray with some sparkle to it. about the same color as her present car.

KarmaGirl

on Apr 29, 2005

Let me know how you end up liking it. Is that the CVT model? I think that the 5 speeds are supposed to get slightly better. I drive 110 miles per day, so I am curious about them.

Remember to get you tax credit at tax time

Moderateman

on Apr 29, 2005

Reply By: KarmaGirlPosted: Friday, April 29, 2005Let me know how you end up liking it. Is that the CVT model? I think that the 5 speeds are supposed to get slightly better. I drive 110 miles per day, so I am curious about them.Remember to get you tax credit at tax time

she loves it, its the civic hybrid, {check out stats online} it took 4/10ths if a gallon to drive it from vacaville to home 23 miles. It was a huge suprise to her when bob pulled up in thew car... she was wondering why I was cleaning her old {2003} car out, I just mumbled alot and told her go relax you have had a long week, she knew something was up, but did not figure it out. HA! SUPRISE!

KarmaGirl

on Apr 29, 2005

she loves it, its the civic hybrid

Yeah. By "CVT" I meant the automatic trans (CVT stands for Continuously Variable Transmission). I believe that the stats for the 5 speed version are a bit better. CVT comes in at 48/47 (48 actually being City) and the 5 speed (MT) comes in a 46/51 (which is due to the transmission difference).

I'm curious to see if it ends up getting 47ish mpg. I have not seen many "real world" reports on it to know if the numbers hold true. My car gets 30 mpg, but I could save a lot if it got 50 instead. The calculator on Honda.com claims that I could save about $6,000 in 5 years if gas prices keep around where they are now. Even at $1.80 per gallon, it would be almost $5,000...... and a lot less gas used.

Moderateman

on Apr 29, 2005

Reply By: KarmaGirlPosted: Friday, April 29, 2005she loves it, its the civic hybridYeah. By "CVT" I meant the automatic trans

yes...it is an auto trans of a sorts. and I will have more to tell after todays trip to oakland from home. I will be able to figure out 148 miles driven {appx} and gas used. altho somewhere on the dash is a doo hicky that tells you mpg and how many miles left aat current mpg. ouch my head hurts.. to many dialies and dohickies.

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