Goodbye old friend, aka Hello car trouble

We have not had good luck with cars this summer. After my car got a new alternator in July, we were seriously thinking about selling it, using the money to help pay for having a baby, and just sharing Tim's car (especially since mine is too small to fit a car seat in the back). We were debating back and forth when whaddya know, Tim's car up and died one morning on the way to one of my appointments. This time it was the clutch, and after pushing it to our mechanic (who was luckily only a few blocks away), we learned that it would cost about as much as they car is worth to fix, aka not worth fixing. 

Tim bought this car a few months before we got married - it was the first car he'd ever actually owned and it's been an amazing vehicle. We've made lots of trips to Torrey in it and several to California, once while pulling a trailer and once via San Francisco and the Pacific Coast Highway. It got amazing gas mileage and was pretty much awesome, in spite of the lack of power steering. It feels silly to admit, but we are kind of heartbroken to say goodbye to it, even aside from the very difficult situation it put us in.

Luckily, that part worked out really well. My dad was already planning on buying a new car so he did that this week and "sold" us his old one (basically just gave it to us). It might be the nicest car either of us has owned: power locks, power windows, power steering, cruise control, and 4-wheel drive for the winter. It does not have a working AC, however, which does make the current weather a bit hard to drive in, but it'll be perfect for the winter. And the car seat fits in the back so we're good to go! It is older than Tim's car but it should last us a little while at the very least - enough time to figure out what to do with my car or save up to buy a new one or whatever we need to do. Mostly, we have a vehicle that we can transport a tiny baby in, which is all we need for the next little while!

So goodbye, old Saturn friend. Hello, new Suzuki friend. And please let that be the end of our car trouble for the foreseeable future!