The Red White and Blue Oval

Let's go ahead and get one thing straight.  I'm a Volkswagen guy.  My dream car is a VW GTI.  When I get bored I surf the internet looking at performance VW modifications and building my own car on the VW website.  I come from a Volkswagen family.  Over the past 10 years my family has owned 9 vehicles from the Volkswagen Auto Group family.  We buy clothes that are advertising for them.

2003 Wolfsburg Jetta 1.8T. 5spd, BBS wheels, APR stage I, candy cane lights

My Brother's immaculate Cabrio with my Jetta

I'm a Volkswagen guy, yet somehow at this moment I don't have a Volkswagen.  Instead we own 3 Fords.  Kristin's family, while I wouldn't classify strictly as Ford people, have probably had more Ford's over the years than my family has had Volkswagens.  Kristin entered our marriage bringing among all of her incredible attributes a cool dark red Mustang.  I brought to our marriage no redeeming virtues and a 40 year old blue F100 that leaked more oil than most cars burned gas.  It burns more gas than any other car thus staying ahead of its oil consumption.  Recently we rounded out our tri color flag with the purchase of a white Ford Escape.

Kristin's 40th Anniversary Mustang

1975 F100

My wonderful little Jetta had over 200k miles and had developed a few foibles.  While it would have been fun to keep pouring money into it, there were necessary maintenance issues looming which would total well more than the car's retail value.  With an eye to the future we decided to trade it in on a newer family car.  Don't read anything into this.  I see all of your eyebrows raising "ahh Kristin and Stephen are getting a family car".  Stop it.  We're just planning ahead. Oh and if you thought this was a sign of maturity forget that too.  My rusty old jalopy is currently getting a sweet new paintjob!  As a result of the truck's absence I have not been able to get a picture of all three cars together yet forming an epic red white and blue all American montage, but I will!

Our sweet new Escape!

And from the Back!

My Jetta had been the first car I bought and I had had it for 6 years.  It was a great little car and I was sad to see it go, but I have been thoroughly enjoying our new Escape.  It was still a little chilly each morning when we first got it so I enjoyed heated seats on the way into school.  Now that its hotter I am enjoying functioning AC each afternoon.  I put a trailer hitch on it and have already towed our jet ski to the lake once.  It has tons of cargo area for all kinds of fun projects or a kitty on road trips.  So far its been a great car and hopefully it will be for years to come.  Kristin's mustang is running strong as ever, and I can't wait to get my awesome new/old truck back.  Sounds kinda like I'm a Ford guy.

Bummed Buzzy