car shopping

ah yes, we have been traversing the car lots and have been accosted by our fair share of car sales men. But, this is all part of looking for a new car. After jumping into several quick decisions we have regretted, (moving to raleigh, me working at the credit union, the apartment we chose to live in, etc.) Jake and I have decided to take things slow and be wiser about the choices we make. This means lots of research, talking, and praying about things. The research for the car started by making several choices. First, we narrowed down the field by agreeing what we wanted to pay each month for a car payment and what type of car we wanted. We have decided we can't afford more than 250.00 a month for a car payment and we want a hatch-back or suv/crossover type vehicle. Jake loves the murano(wayy out of our price range) and I like the Hyundai Sante Fe(also out of our price range) So we have started to compromise and have looked at Hyundai Elantra touring, Jeep Patriot, Nissan Versa, and Kia Rio5. So far we have only test driven the Elantra Touring and a jeep compass(terrible blind spots in the compass). We have taken a break due to the fact that we are so tired of car salesmen, but we will hit the car lots again next week to test drive the other vehicles we are thinking about!! Hopefully we can make a good choice so that when we both have jobs lined up we can go get another car and stop driving around the 1990 bucket of bolts! :)