Super Safety Smarty Pants Car. Love it.
I was SO done with driving a minivan, but we have 3 kids and we spend a lot of time getting from here to there with all our activities and errands and work and all the everything. I knew I was done with Mini-vans, but I still needed to be able to hold all 5 of us - and it's really helpful if we can separate the kids from a single bench. Apparently, "Keep your hands to yourself!" is an actual foreign language - or perhaps ancient Sanskrit, based on how well the kids understand it. So I interviewed A LOT of 3 row SUVs. It felt like a serious goldilocks situation. I finally found 3 that were "just right" (Down from my original list of about 12 candidates). Of the three, only the Palisade offered me ALL the safety features that I wanted in a price I could afford. AND the price of the new vehicle was actually LESS than the used vehicle of "the Other Guys." In order to get the same safety features on a used vehicle, I had to pay FAR more than I wanted to pay for a used vehicle. Basically, I had to buy one of the really high end models for the same features. On the Hyundai, I got the base model plus 1 package - and I got every single safety feature that I wanted. Sure, I missed some of the luxury features that the next model up had, but we're not a "New Car" kind of family. We don't have that kind of cash flow! We have to have priorities - take what we need and not everything we want. Sure, I think moisture sensing wipers are cool, but if I have to really get into what I can and can't afford, the Palisade gave me ALL the fantastic safety features that were my priority in a price that I could actually afford. And now I have a shiny, fancy new car that is gorgeous, reliable, super safe, and I'm not drowning in a huge payment. I LOVE it.
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