New Car

After returning our Volvo XC90 upon lease expiration over a month ago, we finally have purchased a new car. We got a 2008 Buick Enclave SUV. It's a pretty cool car, and seemingly in high demand. The local dealer had two in stock, but claimed that was rare. Sounded like BS to us, but we called a bunch of other dealers and it was true. No one else had any in stock, and one dealer told us that it would be probably four months before we could get one.

The 2008 is the first year of the Enclave, but essentially its the exact same car as the GMC Acadia which started last year. The Enclave is slighly less "Truck-ish" than the Acadia. It has all the bells and whistles - DVD with wireless headsets, GPS Navigation, Auto-start, electronic rear door, Satellite Radio, OnStar, rear captains chairs, third row, iPod connection, rear-reverse camera, backup sensors, a real human consierge - ok, not that.

Frankly one of the reasons we chose to not to get another XC90 was the fact that it had almost NO gadgets. Every detail of the 2008 XC90 looks exactly like the 2005 XC90.

We came "this close" [holding my fingers an inch apart] from getting a Honda Odyssey, but couldn't bring ourselves to get a minivan. In the end, we liked the Enclave more, but we could have gotten a 2007 Odessy at a pretty good lease rate.

Our car is white rather than what is pictured above.