In With the New

It is something I have never done before and do not see myself ever doing again.
We picked up our new car yesterday.  Oh I’ve had many “new to me” cars before but they have always been second hand ones.  This one is new new.
We loved the Rav 4.  It was ideal for what we needed it for.  It got us from a to b, it had plenty of room and we were able to transport stuff easily and well.  It was a bit of a work horse but a nice work horse.  We took several trips to the dump with green waste in it and we used to easily transport fold up tables and market items to Trash and Treasure.
Why then did we part with it?  There was something our mechanic said he had only seen in one other Rav 4.  It involved doing major work.  We knew that was coming up and the vehicle had reached the age where things would definitely start to need changing.
So Merril and I decided to bite the bullet and look for a new vehicle.  We test drove three cars.  The new Rav 4 was to claustrophobic inside.   It felt like in adding new things they had compromised the space inside.  We test drove a BYD.  It was beautiful and luxurious and had bells and whistles that amazed me.  But it did not sit on the road as we would like.  The salesman was the one we would have liked to buy from. He actually seemed human and said he had a spring in his step the rest of the day after I said something encouraging to him.
The last test drive we when with.  It was a Kia Sportage.  It did not have the bells and whistles of the BYD but it had some features new to us.  It also drove well.
I guess I am writing about it because it is new. It will not be new for long, so I guess I am striking while the iron is hot.