For those of y’all who’ve been following along…
Well, tomorrow the saga of Yolanda Yaris, my daughter’s first personally-selected, “bought-on-her-own” car, ends when she picks up Guido Yaris, Yolanda’s replacement as transportation. Since time pressure, physical exigencies, and foot-dragging and obstructionism from ins company thugs refusing to make her whole meant Lovely Daughter had to have things handled this week, she settled on (I almost more accurately wrote “settled for”) a car that is about $1,000 less than Yolanda was: the three-door (hatchback) body version of the Yaris that uses the same drive train and frame, etc.
In red: the ONE color LD wanted to avoid.
Ah, well, it’s just transportation.
At least red will be very easy to see during daylight hours (and she doesn’t drive much at night, when she’ll have lights to provide visibility to other drivers, anyway). LD’s dad is pleased, though. Handling characteristics and fuel economy should be just a tad better with Guido than with Yolanda, and the rest of the car’s the same solid Toyota engineering.
Bye-bye, Yolanda.