Canada Jane

We have a new car

Firstly, I am sorry I have been keeping secrets from you all. A few weeks ago we decided to purchase a new car to replace our truck. We did lots of research and decided that a Hyundai Santa Fe was the vehicle for us. It has excellent reviews, looks great and is much more fuel efficient than our current vehicle.

We ordered it last week and the process of going to the dealer, test driving and saying yes we will have one was so easy and straight forward we were worried it would all collapse around us, so I decided not to temp fate by mentioning it here. Now we actually have the car (or should I say SUV) I can relax and finally come clean.

I cannot stress how easy everything was to arrange. We thought the process of buying our original Ford Sport Trac was easy as we did that whilst still in the UK – mainly by phone and email, but this was just as easy.

We simply went in said we wanted it, they checked our credit history and said okay, sign here. They did not ask for proof of income, employment etc, Presumably because we were already paying a lease to Ford they took it we were okay for them.

So on Friday morning we took back our Ford, removed the plates, signed a form and then Ford allowed us to use their courtesy car to get a lift to the Hyundai garage up the road. We then signed a couple more forms, looked around the Santa Fe to check everything, attached the plates and off we went.

We had to go to Kingston, so our first rip was a decent drive and it is a very nice vehicle. So far we are very pleased with it. Here are some pics.

And inside

This car should be much cheaper to run as the service intervals are slightly longer 6k as opposed to 5k and the service costs appear lower than Ford. So far the fuel is looking much better and as the fuel tank is smaller the actual cost of filling up will be less – so psychologically better too. We were having to pay over $100 to fill up the truck lately.

On a sad note – not boo hoo sad, but really sad – here are the stats for our old vehicle. Bare in mind we had it almost exactly two years.

We spent 973 hours driving it

We did 64,750 km

We used 8,525 litres of fuel

No I did not keep a record of this – the car did it for us!