My sister and brother-in-law have new car fever and sold their Honda Fit for a Toyota Yaris. They’re Toyota people, and they weren’t happy with the Fit. Something about turning radius, and wanting a ride suitable for a grandma. In any case, they wanted me on the new car bandwagon, and wanted me to check out the new Honda Insight. What I found out was that the new S2000’s are on sale and I kind of miss my old car. Really, though, not enough to buy an S2000.

I test drove the Insight because it has rear seats that fold down and that’s really the only thing that I truly wish my Civic Hybrid had. That and possibly a darker colored interior. Turns out that it is a little tinny but still might be quieter than my current car and has better gas milage. Unfortunately, it has a darker and smaller interior and sort of looks like a cave inside. It also doesn’t look like it has any better carrying capacity than my Civic and besides, I like my Civic. The new Civic Hybrids have a leather seat option, which would be great, but I don’t know if I need to trade in my car for heated leather seats. They usually just make my ass sweat.

I think the fantasy of a new car is going to stay a fantasy and not become reality. Time to work on some other fantasies.