We bought a new car. We’d wanted one for a while, but the ongoing pandemic production/shipping situation made us wait. Happily though, the wait ended yesterday and this is now ours:
It’s a 2022 Forester Wilderness. It’s our fourth Forester and fifth Subaru and it’s the fanciest we’ve owned so far with lots of extras. Some of the notable features the car has that are new to us is a powered rear gate, independent driver/passenger air conditioning and the ability to share your phone screen to the cars (large) touchscreen. The Wilderness designation means it’s got some off-roading abilities as well, that we’ll never use!
We traded in our third Forester, which was going on thirteen years old and a bit long in the tooth now:
For the last several months every time I drove this guy I was a little nervous since the engine always sounded like it was about to die. I’m sure they’ll fix him up and he’ll have a good few years left for a new owner 🙂
We seem to buy a new car every six to seven years, and I hope the next one is at least a partial electric vehicle. Come back in 2029 and find out!
It’s a nice color but there’s a disturbing lack of luxury chrome highlights. I’m not a fan of all the black ‘sports’ trim added these days.
We buy new cars every 15 to 17 years. We barely use them compared to the average driver. I doubt our current cars will last that long though.