We have acquired a new addition to our vehicular family... Golda!
Golda is certainly not the car of our dreams, but it was within our price range and had nearly every characteristic that we were looking for in a van.
Golda is a 2004 Nissan Quest LS.
She has leather seats.
She also has four bucket seats (That was our highest priority).
She has about 90,000 miles--which is a lot, but at least not over 100,000.
She has all of the available extra's that were offered in 2004 except the moon roof feature. I really didn't want a DVD player in our van, but Golda has one (we won't be using it anyway since our kiddos are rear facing until 45 lbs.)
The strangest thing about Golda is that all of the gauges such as the speedometer are in the center of the front console. The previous owners said that their grandchildren referred to this van as the millennium falcon because of this strange feature.
The thing that I love most about Golda is that we were able to buy her from a private seller instead of having to haggle a dealer over fees and everything. The downside to that is that in Texas you have to pay an additional tax when you buy a vehicle from a private seller. Boo Texas. But it is still better than paying all of the dealership fees. Not to mention we got this van below bluebook by about $1000.
We are very excited about our new van and hope that it has many years of running well ahead of it!
Golda is certainly not the car of our dreams, but it was within our price range and had nearly every characteristic that we were looking for in a van.
Golda is a 2004 Nissan Quest LS.
She has leather seats.
She also has four bucket seats (That was our highest priority).
She has about 90,000 miles--which is a lot, but at least not over 100,000.
She has all of the available extra's that were offered in 2004 except the moon roof feature. I really didn't want a DVD player in our van, but Golda has one (we won't be using it anyway since our kiddos are rear facing until 45 lbs.)
The strangest thing about Golda is that all of the gauges such as the speedometer are in the center of the front console. The previous owners said that their grandchildren referred to this van as the millennium falcon because of this strange feature.
The thing that I love most about Golda is that we were able to buy her from a private seller instead of having to haggle a dealer over fees and everything. The downside to that is that in Texas you have to pay an additional tax when you buy a vehicle from a private seller. Boo Texas. But it is still better than paying all of the dealership fees. Not to mention we got this van below bluebook by about $1000.
We are very excited about our new van and hope that it has many years of running well ahead of it!
1 comment:
I love the GOLDA. We are still searching for a van. Right now we go places in shifts. Either I go or Jake with 1-3 of the kids.
Good luck with the rear facing till 45 lbs. Brenden still only weighs a whopping 33. I don't know where his legs would go if he wasn't turned around.
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