All the money I threw at my GP last year I finally decided was enough. I'd been using the GP to deliver newspapers, and in addition to not get great gas mileage, it just wasn't made for being loaded down with 400 Sunday newspapers. I had all kinds of front end work done. It ate tires, but really that had more to do with taking turns and cul-de-sacs at 30 miles an hour. I love the GP, but it's just not the right car for what I was using it for. I bought a Mercury Mariner Hybrid a few weeks ago when the last of the credit card bills for GP repairs was done. The payment on the new vehicle was about what I was paying every month for GP repairs. And I'm now saving money on gas because of the hybrid. My goal was to reach 200,000 miles, and I hit that mark earlier this year. So the GP was on borrowed time until I finally found the right replacement vehicle. If I hadn't learned how to do a lot of the work myself, I would have given up a long time ago. It's what happens to a 13 year old car.
Now my Impala, that car won't leave my hands until it's had some serious damage to it. It's my baby.
