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I just couldn’t resist using that pun.  We got a new vehicle today.  It’s a 1995 Honda Odyssey, and it is mostly a minivan.   I say “mostly” because it has four doors that all swing open like regular car doors and it’s not quite as big as a regular minivan.  I want to call it a mini-minivan, and Tony has been calling it a ‘tweener.   It’s definitely an incremental step between a station wagon and a normal minivan.

The picture below doesn’t really do the color very much justice.  It was hard to get a good shot in the late afternoon, cloudy light:

We still have the Volvo.   However after nearly two months without a working vehicle of our own and no end in sight to the Volvo’s woes, we decided we really needed a reliable vehicle.  We feel very fortunate at having found a steal of a deal on the Odyssey — it was the first vehicle Tony looked at it.  He liked it so much (and it was such an amazing deal we didn’t want to let get away) that I didn’t even see it before we bought it — we just talked it over on the phone!

Tony will continue to replace parts on the Volvo to find whatever is causing it’s abnormal behavior (10 parts have been replaced so far with little improvement).  Our plan is to get the Volvo in shape to sell…and then either sell it…or keep it and sell the Odyssey if it turns out we don’t like it as much as our beloved station wagon after a couple months.   Tony is pondering putting them both up for sale when the Volvo is ready and then just keeping which ever doesn’t sell first.  Or maybe we’ll sell both and fund Tony’s dream of having a vehicle that runs on biodiesel or electric power.