I'm going to miss my old car (2005 CTS) but we needed an upgrade.
We travel so much that being jammed in a sedan with all our stuff and 3 dogs for 15-hour car rides is super unpleasant. I wanted more space.
Our old car was going downhill quickly, it was 15 years old, had 130,000 miles on it, which doesn't sound like much but when a car sits for 10 years it starts to wear.
We had slid into a curb one winter in 2016 and cracked the front, then ripped it entirely off in Texas last summer when we hit that water. Even the key was broken and couldn't be on a keyring anymore.
I was looking at a couple of different SUV's and Crossovers.
I knew the features I wanted-
- Our next vehicle HAD to have AWD- our last car was so sketchy in the winters with its rear-wheel drive.
- I wanted a space in the back I could make for the dogs so they were contained and safe.
- It had to have heated front seats and Bluetooth capabilities. Our last car didn't even have an aux cord port.
- It either had to have an auto-start or they had to add one because I'm not going outside in the ND winter to start my car anymore!
And then I had features that I really wanted but weren't a deal-breaker. Like a backup camera, and I'd prefer a V6 engine.
Well yesterday we decided to make a date of it and got Fro-Yo then drove around to all the car dealerships to look at cars and get ideas of what we like. We figured it would be a few weeks before we would find something we could both agree on and go in. But we stumbled upon this gem, and I fell in love.
It had everything I wanted and needed plus more! And I love my Cadillac's, but I figured I would never find one in my price range with all these features. I literally could not design a car myself more perfectly for what I wanted.
Michael doesn't love crossovers and would prefer a car himself. But he said since I wanted it so badly he would let me choose since I drive it the most. And he went down Monday while I was at work and filled out all the paperwork so I could come sign on my lunch break and drive away with it.
