Smaller ones don’t fit a rear facing car seat, a stroller, and a largish dog + luggage.
We can’t really do electric as we don’t have the infrastructure for a charging station since I don’t think they will install them outside attached to the brick of your house. We have a single car laneway that runs up the side of the house to a garage at the back of the property. We have 3 cars currently and will be getting rid of one for the new one. If we put a charger in the garage we would have to move two others onto the street every time we want to drive the vehicle.
I wouldn’t do 11 at one time. We will test drive a car every few months so that we have a general awareness of what new models are like and if we would consider switching. My wife’s car died last year and we had already driven various comparable models and knew that she was still leaning to getting a newer version of the same car. We did one other test drive and that was that,
I think trying to test drive too many cars at the same time results in too much testing fatigue, it’s too much information to process at all once, IMO.
Mentioned it was Canadian dollars.
We have test driven 2-3 car brands each Saturday for 3 weeks. Sometimes drove 2-3 cars at the same dealership.
Mazda was a new rebuild in 2024.
Grunching but hate the car buying process so much I end up keeping my cars way longer than I should. Drove the same 1999 Honda Civic my entire 15 years in SoCal. And am going on year 10 of the same Nissan light car I picked up for about $5K cash when I arrived on Japanese soil.
But enough is enough and am buying a new car this year. Probably a Honda Vezel or Subaru hybrid.
I am about to buy a 2025 Camry LE. I am now looking into some of the features. Apparently the keyless entry requires a subscription after a free trial. I’m feeling kinda outraged. Should I feel outraged? Is this common these days? I haven’t bought a car since 2010.
Subscription services are becoming more common. A subscription for keyless entry via the fob would be pretty unheard of, but from what I read that is not the case on the Camry. Subscription is required for remote start via the fob, or keyless entry via the app, but not keyless entry via the fob.
I bought a new Toyota a few months ago and this is how it works. I have the usual fobs that work as they always have for free. I was told I could get remote start and keyless entry and other stuff through the app but I’m not even going to bother with the free trial cause I don’t want to get used to it then give it up a year from now. The salesperson tried to get me to download it so she could show me all the features and I was like absolutely not.
Mods feel free to cross post this to the getting older thread.
