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The Art of Driving Your Husband Mad

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I want my old car back.

The car that I could park anywhere because it was small and had enough dings that one more would only add to the patina.

I want my old car back.

Car-discussion

The old car that only had one speed, no radio, blue jean seats, and that wasn't all shiny and pretty. The one that French Husband did not go into lengthy discussions about every ten seconds of the day.

I want my old no brain-er, straight shooter. Nobody would steal it, scratched-up beauty… I liked the old car that I gave Chelsea for Christmas in September.

But I do not want to trade the new one for it.

I like my new car. I do not like the attention I have to give it, nor the hyperventilating attention my French Husband gives me because of it.

I mean, honestly, it is not the end of the world that I forgot to lock it last night.

What kind of car do you drive?

Comments

83 responses to “The Art of Driving Your Husband Mad”

  1. Miss~Robyn

    thank heavens, my man is not a car person.. so I really don’t have to worry about my car… but his bikes? that is another story.. they are all covered and locked into garage with alarms on it..
    I love old shabby cars that have soul.. I wish I had one but I also like reliable cars.. I drive a Chrysler Cruiser.. the best of both worlds 🙂
    (I wanna see a photo of your cars – old and new!)

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  2. Paula

    Corey, I have your old car, one that I can squeese into any parking space. ( I did find a note on the car once with a message, “next time leave a f……g can opener!!” ha ha). One that has so many scratches and bumps on it (not from me I might add), that I hope no one would want to steal it. It’s a Toyota Corolla by the way, I love it and want to clone it when it dies! You never said, what is your new car, or did I miss something?

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  3. le petit cabinet de curiosites

    I want to see your new car !! Me, i don’t really care about cars but I like to drive sport cars because of the noise of theirs motors !! I love old sport cars the best but I don’t have any !!!

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  4. Paulita

    Just make sure it gets a few good knocks and he’ll stop obsessing about it. We got a new car last January after my daughter totalled our Honda Pilot. I loved that car. No one was hurt. Now I’m driving a Taurus X, a crossover kind of SUV/station wagon looking car. Love all the features. Loved it more when my husband knocked a radio off the garage shelf onto the car. Now he doesn’t say a word by dings in the doors.

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  5. DanaSmith

    I’m getting ready to trade my Ford Edge in for a red Mini Cooper. I have a feeling I’m going to love it just like you loved yours!

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  6. Gracie

    Any pics? My is this one http://www.marroautomobili.it/foto/MatizPlanetRosso.gif
    I bought it last september, almost two years old, but in very good conditions for just 5.500,00 €

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  7. The Pliers

    I feel your pain, Corey.
    I have never owned a new car precisely because I did not want to spend one single second thinking about its getting dinged, banged, bumped, scratched, stolen or otherwise damaged or messed with.
    Then, last September, my husband bought a pre-owned 2008 Renault Twingo automatic for our new life in France. Great… I may have to drop a radio on it myself just to get the “new car neurosis” over with.
    Forgot to lock it… Ha! Ha! Ha!

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  8. Margaret Bouwmeester

    I totally understand, my husband gave me a green car…. I have only ever had white cars…. no matter what the make. I hate green cars, but he gave it to me and he was thrilled that he had bought me a car. I pretend it is grey when I drive. It helps:)
    Hugs,
    Margaret B

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  9. Jeanne

    Baby you can drive my car
    Yes you’re going to be a star
    Baby you can drive my car
    Cause baby I love you
    Beep Beep Yeah
    I drive an SUV
    Kisses

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  10. The Brocantess

    Ahhh, I understand 🙂 Deep breaths. Are there meetings that might divert his focus today? 🙂 If not, pop open one of the St. Emilion’s tonight…..

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  11. kelleyn

    I so feel for you!I guess that is one reason I don’t live in Europe. I would be stuck using public transportation. I am the worst driver. Well, maybe not the worst, but I would never be able to park in Europe with their tight spaces. I need the football fields.

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  12. Twinkleberry

    I have a lovely, fiesty, cute and sexy blue Fiat Panda(with ALL the trimmings!). I love it because it’s Italian (and therefore indisputably cool),small (because I am rubbish at parking) and most importantly – because I like cars that look like toys!

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  13. Bev

    My car is an 11 year-old Toyota Camry. I love my little old lady. She’s a very faithful car.

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  14. JoieDeVivre

    we are not into vehicles either Corey, the older the better in our book. we/hubby drives an old Sonata, the very first one that came out, love that car! The best one we ever had, many many miles and duct taped to boot!
    Will never trade that in. And we do not have a garage (living in NE) so newer expensive cars are really out of the question for us.
    I’m with you-older cars are the best!

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  15. Linda C.

    I drive a small, silver hatchback. Perfect colour for the hot Australian summers. Perfect size for parking. Perfect size for shopping paraphernalia. Perfect size for a grandmother & grandchild. Perfect size for getting out & about, & zinging in & out. Perfect on the petrol consumption. Perfectly perfect for moi…

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  16. Christine Kalina

    I drive a silver mini cooper with black racing stripes; like driving a go cart my daughter says.. Wave if one passes you by. My plate says “zippy”. No hiding in my small village with that identifier!

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  17. Mari

    Perfect timing for this post!!! Please, please email me the name of the nearest car rental location for my visit!!! I love you sweet Corey. See you soon.
    Mari

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  18. Rhonda

    I agree with you, if I have to have a car I don’t want to worry about it. Being a city girl we just raise our hand to hail a cab. Since I don’t live in the city anymore (boo hoo) I drive my 11 year old Suzuki Grand Vitara SUV – it has been the best vehicle. I can pile so much in it. I take good care of it, everyone thinks it is new. However, if someone gave me a black Mercedes I wouldn’t turn it down.

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  19. Katiebell

    Mine’s a scratched up pale blue beauty, with lovely big rust patches and is older then most being the lovely vintage of ’83 – she’s a spring chicken, ten years younger then me. A station wagon, with tons of character it has taken me the length of a continent or more, in the last 10 years. She is noisy because she is neglected and needs to see the Dr. Dave as soon as I have the money for a service!
    My mum has a theory that the best way to stop something being broken into or stolen is to leave it open… Good theory I reckon, esp when it comes to the heart!
    Trust is the Key Corey.

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  20. Sandy

    I drive around in my birthday present, a Sebring covertable, white with a navy blue top. My dream ride would be a 1920’s ear International pickup truck painted cherry red. The one I miss the most is my old red Isuzu Trooper, I could stuff that thing so very full of flea market goodies and I did not have to worry about dints or door dings as I do now. Although I have driven around with top down and things hanging out hoping not to scuff the seats or get a ticket.

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  21. Lilly

    I once bought a new powder blue pickup truck and sold it a few months later. I replaced it with a totally beat up ugly old pickup. I couldn’t stand being so careful with the beauty of the new car and I loved just heaving any old thing into the back of the dented old one.

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  22. Rebecca

    Living in the city, I love the freedom of NO car. But we have one…that is kept “safe” in a garage…went to pick it up about a month ago, and it had been broken into and trashed. It is getting fixed at the garage now, and when it is back, we are getting rid of it and never looking back! We can rent cars and hail many, many cabs for the price of housing and insuring a car we used once a month! Oh, and it is a silver Mazda. Too pretty for the city.

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  23. Candace

    My favorite car is one that starts. I have had everything from a Jaguar to Mercedes. They aren’t always reliable. Now we have our third Toyota truck. Love it. Great for hauling antiques. Great resale and they last forever.

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  24. Natalie Thiele

    I drive a 2001 green VW Beetle. I love, love, love, my car. The front part of it fell off a couple of years ago, so it looks a little like it is missing its front teeth, but it is a wonderful car. It runs and runs and runs. It was also the first car I have ever wanted that my husband could fit into.

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  25. Jewel

    I drive a great big yellow F350 Ford pickup, that is very hard to park. It’s either that or my husbands pride and joy, a 41 year old Toyota Land Cruiser, that I wouldn’t dare let get banged up. He wants to be buried in it. He’s pretty sure God will want him to have it in Heaven

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  26. Michelle

    I love my car, it’s a 2008 Toyota Rav 4. Two days before Thanksgiving my sweet little 92 year old neighbor lady backed into me as she was coming out of her driveway. She said she didn’t think to look to see if I was behind her (which I was already in the middle of the street getting ready to go forward). I was heart sick that my car a little over a year old was now damaged goods. I got it back last week and I am worried all the time that someone else is going to hit me.
    My poor little neighbor, I really do worry about her more than my car though. She has had several of these little fender benders and I just pray that her family will do the right thing. I would hate for her to get hurt or hurt someone else. Her name is Rosetta and she is something else, she likes to dress up and wear dangle earrings and little hats, cuter than a speckled pup!

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  27. Kathie B.

    Corey, on my first visit to the Azores, my young cousin — driving his father’s pricey BMW — gave me a car-tour of the eastern end of his island, São Jorge. When we got out of the car to have a cold beverage along the way in mid-afternoon, I (being an urban American by upbringing) reflexively rolled up the window and pushed down the button to start to lock the car-door. My cousin asked me why I was doing that and I replied, so it’s not easy to steal, it being a valuable vehicle. Cousin asked who I thought was going to steal the car and where they could possibly take it on such a small island without being noticed, since basically everybody there knows everybody else, at least by sight.
    He had a point. So I followed his lead and didn’t bother to lock the door. Surprise! the car was still there when we came back out about a half-hour later.
    Afterwards, I mused to myself that perhaps the only plausible car-theft scenario there would’ve been if some teenagers stole it for a joyride, then got out and ran it off a cliff. When I’ve asked Azorean friends if they thought that was ever likely, they’ve all replied that it’s simply unimaginable! That said, I’d still be inclined to lock the car doors if I were in one of the (comparatively) larger towns in the Azores, just on general principle because I’m such a cautious soul.

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  28. nancy from mass

    I have a 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The back seat floor is always a mess because of my dear son and the windows desperately need to be cleaned on the inside. But I love it. And…I hardly ever lock it in my driveway. Hubby always locks up his Mazda 3. If I had my choice of vehicles to steal in my driveway, I would choose the Mazda over the Jeep with the “I (heart) Charter Schools” and “You are what you eat, go Organic” bumper stickers!

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  29. Paula S In New Mexico

    I drive a 99 Subaru Forrester. Love it. I can get 24 bags of landscaping bark in that baby !!!! I think we’ve just about replaced all the major things that can go wrong so I figure I can put another 263,000 miles on it easily.
    Corey, post a photo of you with your new car !!!!!!!!!

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  30. Star

    1995 Chevy Cavalier – I vowed when I got this car that next time I purchased a car it would be *my* choice and not because someone else ran into me and totaled it–so far, so good 🙂

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  31. Karon

    It’ll soon feel like home, a few dings and scratches will soeon attach themselves. I have a jeep and have certainly needed its four wheel drive in all our snowy weather this past month. I’m hoping to trade it in for a left hand frive small car for going to france this year.
    All best
    Karon x

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  32. Rebecca D

    I drive a 1995 Nissian Pathfinder and I LOVE IT! It is old and broken in…and my husband leaves me alone about it! The last time I had a new car our kiddos were 3 & 6 and he didn’t want eating in it!?! That and “NO TRASH”… did he know what the life of an “stay at home mom” is like???

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  33. AnnieElf

    I drive a 16 year old beater. Love my car. No one wants it. It always starts, never disappoints and when it does put up a fuss, it is easily fixed.

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  34. AmyKortuem

    I don’t blame you, dear. I cannot STAND discussions or vanity surrounding cars. I drive a 1996 Ford Explorer that’s been paid for since 2005, and only requires a little TLC every few years in the form of a new battery or AC compressor (whatever the heck that is, as long as it defrosts the windows here in cold, snowy Minnesota). It has beauty marks and a little rust and takes me everywhere I need to go with no worries that anybody would ever want it. I think perhaps HE is driving YOU mad!

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  35. Christine A.

    I have a white Suburu outback which every other mom here in Bend has ( Suburus are “dependable” but it’s the boring “I’m not quite finished look” that white cars exude that I don’t care for). I am not complaining (ok sorta) but it’s not me. My husband has a 64 cherry red cutlass convertible but that’s way too showy for my taste:)
    My dream car is a black or forest green Sunbeam or Triumph ~those cars that go off cliffs in old movies as my husband likes to remind me.
    Saving my pennies..
    “Thelma”

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  36. Penny

    We were forced to buy a new car for me a few years ago when I was t-boned (I never knew that phrase before it happened to me) and the car was totaled. I detest car shopping, going from lot to lot, dealer to dealer, the haggling and so on and I especially disliked doing it with a mess of injuries that made it hard to get into and out of. Ahhhhh . . . me think I doth protest too much. While I hate car shopping and am not one for car vanity (my Irish husband – that’s another matter). What I do love is food and my coffee drinks, and so, am now driving a VW mocha Passat with a chocolate latte interior! Now wonder I keep gaining weight.

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  37. Marilyn

    I drive a 2004 Honda CRV. I love it, I chose it, I paid for it, and it is all mine. I let me husband drive it occasionally, but I watch that he doesn’t dent it. It is red!

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  38. Brother Mathew

    You are what you drive.

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  39. Katherine

    I drive a Jeep Wrangler & love, love, love it…and for all the same reasons you love your old car (plus I don’t have to worry about hitting potholes or curbs as apparently I’m really good at doing!).

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  40. Kathie B.

    AnnieElf wrote: “I drive a 16 year old beater… No one wants it.”
    Annie, we thought the same thing about our 13-year-old Buick with our homemade dent-patching and crummy new paint job. Guess what? One day Farmboy Husband came out of work to drive home, discovered an empty spot where he’d parked and locked the car. Months later the police reported to us that the car had been found when it was involved in a traffic accident. Turned out the thief already owned a similar model and had planned to salvage parts from ours to fix up his, then discovered ours ran better so instead turned it into a veritable pimp-mobile — complete with fancy hubcaps, wheels jacked up in back, and (so help me!) fire-engine red fake-fur interior lining.
    Curiously, the initial police report was that the thief had also installed a fancy sound system, but by the time Farmboy Husband retrieved the car that was missing (we figure stolen by someone at the city tow-pound, which long had a reputation for dishonesty). The old car no longer ran, plus we’d already bought a new one to replace it, so eventually sold it as is “for a song” to a young man interested in fixing it up.

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  41. Milena

    I know what you mean.
    We picked up our new car last weekend, and I do hate those first days, when every little scratch is a disaster… The car is 2010 Golf GTI, and I love it love it love it! I still don”t have the license though, haha… in 2 weeks is my test, wish me luck 😀

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  42. Celeste

    Love my car, dings, age(01) and all.
    http://www.cartype.com/pics/7002/full/chrysler_pt_cruiser_09.jpg

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  43. Papaya

    Corey we are kindred spirits!
    My car is 29 years old and I just LOVE it! A few years ago it looked like the end for my “baby”. My husband took me shopping for a new car and said I could have any car on the lot. I hated all of them and just wanted my car fixed. We found a mechanic who loved my car as much as I do and he fixed it! YAY!
    Sometimes I wish that I had a few of the 21 century luxuries but then I come back to my senses.

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  44. Megan B.

    I drive a small tank. ’91 Buick Park Avenue. I completly understand what you mean to not have to worry about it because of dings here and there! Currently there is some black tape serving to keep some of the back windshield’s lining on! It’s a solid car though and it’s the first car I ever bought. So it has a special place in my heart despite it’s ‘rough’ appearance.

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  45. Catherine

    LOL, I’m with you, Corey! I drive a good old corolla-never-die. but would loan it for a ride on a ducati though. : )

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  46. Susan

    I drive a minivan and when I bought it my daughters were in elementary school. Now, one is in college and the other will graduate from high school in the spring. My minivan is a lovely dark blue that changes colors in the sun like a rainbow fish. Yesterday, she had a slight nervous breakdown when my daughter and I took her out for a shopping trip. Her indicator lights flashed and the needles on her dials flew back and forth violently. By the time we got her down the road to the mechanic she had, of course, collected herself.

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  47. Franca Bollo

    I want my 1980 Honda Civic back for the very same reasons plus it had a clutch which I miss. Driving the hills of San Francisco just isn’t the same without holding a latte in my left hand, shifting with my right and steering with an elbow. Ugly as hell but no one bothered it nor did I ever worry about it. The one downside is it leaked in the rain so during the winter it grew mushrooms.
    So, according to Choupie, I’m a rusting, old, fungi-growing standard.

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  48. marigio

    I drive a Modus ,before I had a Twingo. I’m a Renault fan.

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  49. Laurie

    My dream car a 1990 Honda Accord. Bought it new. It just keeps going. Apparently, people think the same. My car has been broken into at least twenty times. Nothing taken or broken. They must use it for practice. Such is life in a city.
    Laurie
    San Farncisco

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  50. ruth

    I miss my 63 VW Bug… Sigh I drive a Jeep Cherokee Laredo 2002. It’s a tall SUV which I love but it’s soooo establishment. Bu then so am I… I guess
    Ruth

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  51. Sara

    My old car–since I was 16–, a 1965 Ford Mustang, is sitting in the garage, where she has been stuck for the past 3 years with a tyranny leak. I love and miss her, and will attend to her when I have more time…
    For now I drive the kids around in a SUV, which I like very much.

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  52. Kel

    I drive a Ford Edge that we purchased in 2009 the day my husband had out-patient surgery for melanoma. The doctors even tell you, “do not make any quick decisions or large purchases until the effects of the anesthesia is completely out of your system”, which is exactly what we did. I love the car but I am also afraid to wear it out too soon!

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  53. Karleen

    1994 Geo Metro. Robin’s egg blue, four door, bad radio, nothing to be desired. I received it as a gift from my grandparents when I was 20. Now three years later it is still running strong. Like you, I love my car because it is small, no one will steal it, and I would never notice a couple dings on the exterior.

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  54. Karin

    After the first ding, he won’t care as much about the car. 🙂 I drive a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado truck, with a “Certified Farmgirl” bumper sticker on one side and a “No farms, No food” sticker on the other. I feel safe in it and, in Atlanta, you need to feel safe. My husband hates driving the truck now. 🙂 Who said there wasn’t a method to my madness?

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  55. Julie Ann

    ohmigoodness corey im with you here. keith can see scratches not visible to the naked eye. He caught me with a parking fine that I had hidden because the when the window steamed up he could see the sellotape marks – yes really ! We bought a new (er) 4×4 last week, fantastic for the snow, wonderful family car. I love it but I live in fear… Bon chance my friend, jx

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  56. Karen C

    A Holden Commodore wagon.
    Good power, lots of space but absolutely NO turning circle so parking at shopping centres and doing U-turns is a nightmare.
    Used to drive an old Volvo Estate.
    NO power until you hit 100kph. Really uncomfortable rear seating.
    But boy, oh boy. I could park that thing in a matchbox.
    Gee, I miss it.

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  57. Ann

    2007 Suburu Forester. Nice silver tone. When I first got it I didn’t realize the seats heat up and I’m driving to work in March with the air conditioner on. Told DH something is wrong with the car and he said it’s in your head… it’s a brand new car. Finally I read the book and realized the car seats have a heater – just what we need in Arizona. But I love it – hauls antiques very well. DH has a Chev Monte Carlo which I love for the speed – that’s a great car. Oh well, we are our cars aren’t we?

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  58. cathy

    I drive a beautiful FORD escape. Being from Michigan,the motor city, We buy American, our lives depend on it! And well I gave my previous Escape to my son… i loved it, just had an emotional attachment,this one is beautiful too,but it’s not my old one. So I know what you mean! My husband isn’t a car guy so I don’t have to worry.Now if i touched his record collection that would be an entirely different story!
    love you Corey,you are wonderful.

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  59. Kristy

    I miss my old 69 Chevelle. Now I drive a minivan. But it’s paid for so I can’t complain much. Still looking forward to the day when I have a zippy car again!!

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  60. AmandaMay

    I have a red Ford Taurus. Not exactly my dream car, but I was on a budget and had a time crunch. It is way too big for my needs, but very comfortable. I enjoyed how shiny and new it looked until my fiance drove it into a snow-covered mailbox. Oops. And then someone knocked into it on the street. And then I backed into a dumpster. Now it looks like all the cars I grew up with (red subaru station wagon with a blue replacement hatchback, little white subaru with geometric shapes spraypainted on to cover up the rust, my parents are artists…). At least now I don’t have to worry when I get a few extra scrapes and scratches! Sure beats making car payments to have something new and shiny.

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  61. Gail

    I have a 2006 Land Rover and love it to pieces! In fact we were leasing it and just decided to buy it because the lease ended…I look forward to it’s future “patina”. It’s inevitable, right? Bound to happen, and I don’t obsess over it like parking way out of the way so no one will “ding” it, etc. After all, it’s kind of a rugged car anyway, but admittedly I do like it clean inside!

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  62. Denise

    I have a 2004 Ford Expedition. Don’t think I’m an American gas hog – I use it to trailer my daughter’s horse around town and to California.
    But the first month after we bought it someone keyed my door. I avoided telling my husband because……he would be upset, he loves his cars? When he noticed it, he yelled at me, “When did this happen? Why didn’t you tell me?” and I answered, “because of your reaction now! Like I would key my own car? Do you think I had an option in this?” Then he came back to planet Earth and said “it’s the first ding”

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  63. Nancy

    2001 Toyota Highlander. Love it..easy to maneuver, lot’s of character dings over the years. The bumper’s paint is beginning to fade a bit and the leather seats are starting to wear on the edges. I’ve spilled so many drinks in this car that I’ve lost count, but I’m not ready for new just yet!

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  64. jadie

    one day years ago a good friend of ours drove his brand new big mercedes to our house, leaving it for the weekend. he begged me to drive it while he was gone…when i protested that i might get a scratch or something, he answered that that would be a mercy…he wouldn’t have to live in a state of anxiety about WHEN he would get that first scratch!

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  65. jadie

    ooooh, i just read katherine’s comment above…YES!! she’s right! you ARE what you drive… i’m a california girl, what can i say? and i don’t even consider myself shallow.

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  66. joanny

    Cars Cars Cars–
    I quit buying Anerican cars they were always in the shop — and now a days most of them or vital parts are made in other countries — so I switched to Honda Civic — it is several years old and runs well- awfully small though and not as comfortable as my last car but it gets me around on low fuel.

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  67. Patt

    I drive a Lexus SC420. On Stressful days I take a ride to Davis (40 miles away )with the top down, music on and do my grocery shopping at the Nugget. I get a cup of something good and by the time I get home my little car has eased my day. You would not believe what I can pack in that little thing when I take my clients to Nantuckets in Chico. I call it – My…Because… I am in my 50’s car. Perhaps some day it will be a clasic.

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  68. Chris

    I drive a 2002 Lexus ES300. I love my car, even with the dings and scratches. This car replaced my 1996 Lexus ES300. It had over 250,000 miles on it and this one will probably go at least that long.

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  69. jend’isère

    As brocante treasures, cars should be things you feel comfortable with.
    PS.Perhaps you need to inverse who is driving whom mad?

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  70. christine

    A VW combie – great for hauling hundreds of kids around, doing a ton of shopping, and delivering art and wine. That sums up my life really. One day I will have a car that only I and one other can fit into…………….

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  71. sandy

    I would like to meet you for breakfast OR lunch OR dinner. OR just go for a walk together. Never mind all the french crap, not that it’s not wonderful but YOU are an interesting woman. I am not coming to
    France. So don’t worry. I would like to meet you. I love your blog. YOU are very cool.

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  72. Alison Whittington

    I have a silver toyota corolla named Stevie – she’s great. I insisted on buying a manual transmission, and it was the only one on the dealer’s lot (of the used cars, anyway). I find that I’m a much better driver with a stick, because I’m forced to pay attention, but they’re becoming harder to find. I dread the day when all cars are automatics.
    I still miss my old Jeep Cherokee, though, for ease of hauling things. Not that I haul that many things, but it would be very useful now, since we’ll have a nursery to stock.

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  73. Kimberly

    I drive a 2003 Grand Caravan to fit all of my kiddos and their friends in! I am a taxi and I love it! 🙂 Blessings, Kimberly

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  74. helene

    I had never thought much about cars. I could usually tell you if a friend’s car was blue or white. My car was a blue Volvo and I drove it for 19 years before giving it to my daughter-in-law. Then someone donated a 1982 Mercedes 280SL coupe with soft and hard tops to our church for a auction. I was a done for. Loving Husband said we should bid on it. Silent auction day arrived. We bid. Our bid was second place BUT three days later our minister called me to say first place bidder had dropped out and did I still want the car? Was that divine intervention? So for about 4 years I have been driving this beautiful classic car. Who would have guessed?

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  75. Brenda L from TN

    I inheritaed my car…a 2003 Lincoln Town Car…along with a solid black cat!!! No joke. He (the cat) was even in the will!! Before anyone gets any funny ideas about it..let me explain. My uncle and his wife never had any children and I was his sister’s only child…soooo I got the cat and his car after they both passed away. My aunt didn’t drive so I got the car in 2004 when my uncle died but not legally until she passed in ’06. Blackie (the cat not the car)became mine also then (legally).

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  76. Cindy

    I am so happy to hear about the other folks who drive older cars! I drive a 1995 Nissan Sentra with a manual transmission. The interior fabric is starting to disintegrate. It keeps running, so I can’t justify buying something more impressive.
    When I was in a small Montana town several years ago, I was amazed to see that not only did people leave their cars unlocked and windows down, they left their keys in the transmission. Incroyable!

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  77. Denise

    I drive a 1994 Volvo station wagon and I still love!

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  78. shannon in oregon

    a 2009 Honda Fit. I am smitten with Pearl. Manual transmission, great sound system, and the best part? she’s dark purple!!

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  79. Denise_in_CDN

    2005 VW Jetta Wagon (diesel) with 188,000 kilometres… Such a good car. Great for hauling kids, dogs and hockey bags all over the countryside 🙂

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  80. Gwen

    2002 M-Class in Magma Red…I call it my “truck” with leather seats. Have never felt it was a luxury because we purchased it at reduced price as it had been a dealer “courtesy” car. I load it up with plants in the spring and summer here in Atlanta…brush out the dirt. After all, it is my “truck”.

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  81. Barbara

    A 1990 red Miata…which is currently in the shop to be fixed…sigh.

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  82. Pat de Verre

    DH offered me 2008 Smart Cabriolet for Chrismas 2008. Fantastic and funny to drive and so easy to park. I love my tiny yoghurt can!

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  83. Sharon

    my cars name is Lexie….very original since it is a Lexus suv. I love it. I use it as a truck to haul everything from dirt to garden supplies to grocerys. My friend told me the other day that it looked like I live it it!!! I clean it out every month or so and find new things I forgot about. Such a treat!! I will die with this car. I love it and besides it is easy to get in and out of with my RA joints.

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