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Friday, September 4, 2009

Keeping Up With The Hodge's!

Happy Belated Birthday to me:



Excuse me while I brag...We went to the bank yesterday morning, and were loaned a lot more than we thought we would get; about twice as much as we thought. Apparently our being frugal has paid off, as we have paid down a lot of debt and our credit score went up about ~100 pts since we last checked (when we bought the house).

Lucas ready to go car shopping!


SO, we went car shopping! We have been looking for an Equinox, assuming we could only get the simple 1LT for around $23,000...and after looking around we decided to buy this brand new one they just got on the lot yesterday:


It is a $37,000 2010 Chevrolet Equinox LTZ , and I actually love the color. GM hasn't been making enough Equinoxes (plural- equini?) for the demand at these dealerships, so they have been selling directly off the truck. But this one was the higher end one with ALL the customizations and more than I even was aware of. We talked down the price and got a couple discounts; one for credits we had on our GM credit card, and one for $1,000 since a person in our household (Susan) has a non-GM car(she has a VW golf)---some kind of incentive to get people to only buy GM I don't know. Note: This car is for the REALLY lazy people!

Here are the features (from what I know). I drove it home from Newport News and was so distracted by all the levers and buttons--you know, I'm a small town girl in a 'big city' car lol.
The display--both front seats have seat warmers!

Nice shiny rims

My little computer remote-it opens and closes the trunk, locks/unlocks the car, sets off the alarm, AND starts the car when I'm in the house!

Two-tone leather interior

Onstar, Emergency button, and phone! I called John from the car- you just say "dial" and the number! Guess I don't need a cell phone now!

The best picture I could get of the Sunroof--it's very nice!

The V6 engine--yeah, I know nothing about it.

The view back

Check this out--not only does it have GPS, with a voice giving directions, it has a rearview camera when you put it in reverse. Great feature to avoid hitting little kids. And it guides you in backing in to a space.

The meters and screen which is smarter than both John and I

The DVD player in the back of the front seat

You can play 2 DVD's on either side!

Fairly large trunk-the seat folds down in half so we can have Lucas' seat in, but still have a lot of room.


We are very happy to have our family car with all the things we wanted in it and more. I could drive forever in that thing. It's so nice to have just a 4 door car, to put lucas' seat in (not to mention Olivia's) and to sit high up. Lucas sits a little higher and has a window to see things better- he likes it a lot. And when he can sit in a front-facing seat, he can watch Veggietales! Thank you John!

7 comments:

Iris said...

Hummana hummana! That is one sexy SUV!

Sarah Jane said...

What a difference from your other car! All of the extras are kind of sickening but hey, you can afford it, so why not.

Prolifegirly said...

iris- lol i'm dumb...when i first read your comment I said in my head "whoo Man uh?" lol. Thanks!

sarah- true. But, if we go on any long drives like the one to NC last weekend, Lucas will be entertained and john can't get lost lol. I still need to sit down and learn all the console/display button things--it's distracting when you're driving if you don't know what anything does lol.

Bill and Jennifer said...

I love it...Congrats

Prolifegirly said...

thanks! Me too :) John has the cobalt to go to work in, so I now have a car to take lucas out during the day yay! lol.

bwyatt said...

How nice! Looks so luxurious. I bet you now are ready for another road trip, maybe even all the way to CA;)

Prolifegirly said...

thanks brianne---maybe we can visit you. Where are you living now?