congrats! That is awful shopping as far as I'm concerned. I do not enjoy it one little bit!

what make/model/year are you going to get?

We don't much care for it either, that's why it takes us forever. We're looking at a Saturn Ion, 2006 or 2007.

yeah! This is something I need to think about doing myself. I guess it would be nice to have a replacement before the car totally dies

We've been saying that for quite a while -- our "new" vehicle is 12 years old. Our older one, also a Saturn, is 15 years old.

woo hoo!