While I can appreciate some of the nicer cars out there, I’m not really much of a car person. I like my car to be well equipped but I don’t particular want or need a luxury or sports car. I don’t really like any car bigger than a small sedan and I don’t know how I’m going to come to terms with the small SUVs Christina is thinking about.

The cars that most appeal to me are definitely the hybrid, flex fuel, and plug-in electric cars that are making the news these days. I’m seeing more and more SMART cars and supposedly Think will be releasing cars soon. I’m really intrigued by the Chevy Volt currently being developed as well as stuff like the oh-so-sweet Tesla. All that said, as far as I’m concerned, cars are pretty much a huge money sink, particularly new cars. It’s probably the most expensive purchase you can make without a return on your investment.

Christina recently got rid of her car — and somehow managed to get someone to pay for it as well. Her car had been through a lot and it really needed to be put out to pasture. However, it left us with just the one car. We were just using one car for most of last year as I could drop Christina off at the Metro next to my office. That worked quite well until this past semester when Christina went to school full time to finish her Masters degree. Now that she’s finished (yeah!), it’s becoming slightly more difficult to only have the one car in the sprawl of Northern Virginia. Depending on where she finds a job, it might be hard to commute together and we could be forced to get another car. Ideally, I would find a way to convince my boss to work from home and just trade in the Celica for whatever Christina wants.