Lots of new car news
For a while now I’ve been meaning to start putting up notes about my second hobby, new cars. Over the past few weeks I’ve gotten emails about some ones I’ve been following.
Mini introduced the 2005 Mini Convertible. (If you are in Safari, you’ll have to turn off pop up blocking to get this to work properly. This might just be my next car (in January), if one can actually purchase it with those hot wheels on the burnt orange color. Tell me this doesn’t look hot to you:
I got an email from Volvo about the 2004.5 Volvo V50. Email points to their new web site. I really love the look of this car, but, once again (yes, this is a theme within me), only with those hot wheels.
There was a great article by David Pogue a few weeks ago about the 2004 Toyota Prius. (No link, I didn’t save it before I could use the weblog special thingy to get around the expiry of articles the NY Times does).
This is a serious contender for my new car in January. On my last business trip to the bay area, I lucked upon a brand new Toyota Corolla as my rental from Hertz, and damn, it was pretty nice. It handled 85 and 101 with no problems.. the engine was a bit loud when I floored it to merge, but hey, for $15,000, I can handle that.
The 2004 New York Auto show was last week as well, check out AutoWeek’s coverage, as well as Edmunds.
I’m going to endever to be more pro-active about posting stuff about future cars here, so feel free to stick around if you are interested.
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