Wow, okay wasn’t expecting to win that, thank you Strop for that utterly unexpected and in depth review of all entries, you’ve set a very high bar to start this off! Congradulations to everyone else those were some damn fine cars I was up against. I will attempt to remain humble despite knowing that the founder of GG drives a Centauri.
Due to my work and home schedules I am kinda forced to make this a 1 week round as well, I just do not have much time to judge and review cars before next weekend. (Especially as I’m just starting to work on my own challenge.) That said I am still game to run it!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it.
The year is 2007, I am a working parent, we are well off if not exactly well to do. The time has come to retire one of our cars, the kids are too big and it is a bit on the older side, we are shopping for a new car, it will be our first fresh from the showroom floor! But given our family size and the multitude of activities we will be needing the car for we are looking at minivans, but the new wave of CUV’s and wagons are also tempting, although a premium mid sized sedan with a lot of storage space might also work but it would have to be really good.
Ideally we are looking for a brand new car, a model year 2007, but we might be tempted by a slightly older one, but not too old.
We are primarily concerned about safety, utility, practicality, reliability, drivability and comfort.
It must seat at least 5, though more is better.
It must use regular fuel.
Prices should be around $35,000, we are already splurging a bit because we want a safe and fun car for the kids so it should not be much higher than that.
Round closes midnight of January 31st EST