[Ms Grumpy]

My daily driver may make a few people upset, so I am going to give you a little back story on it.

About 3 years ago David and I decided that we were going to buy our first brand new car. Gas prices were on the rise, and we wanted to have something that got decent gas milage. I had just given my son my Chevy Venture, and we actually looked at buying a used one, but people were ridiculous on what they wanted for one, so we started looking for a new car. It had to be able to fit the 5 of us, and of course David at 6'4" had to be able to fit in it and be able to drive it. Believe it or not there are a lot of cars and trucks that he just couldn't fit into.

We looked at the Chevy HHR, it was too small and too much money. We wanted an Impala but they wanted way too much money. We spent 3 months looking on line and going to dealerships. Many of the dealerships told us they were NOT dealing/haggling on the prices of anything we wanted. So we went back to what we needed, room for the 5 of us and good gas milage.

We finally walked into a Toyota dealership, and test drove a Yaris. It fit everything that we needed. The one we looked at had a broken side window and they were waiting on parts, but another dealership had another Yaris on it's lot and we went and looked at it, and bought it. At the time we bought ours, the car was rated at 39mpg. I honestly think that I have gotten over 42mpg on the highway.

The recession hit hard three months after we bought the Yaris. So if we had waited for another 3 months to buy a car, we could have gotten anything that we wanted in our price range.

So my daily driver is a 2008 Toyota Yaris, 39+mpg. I hope nobody is too mad at me.