It has that new car smell....

After thirteen years and over 167,000 miles of faithful service, the vaunted Green Machine (aka the family mobile) finally told us it was time to move on without her.

The 99 Ford Explorer put out to pasture

We needed another vehicle that had space for dogs, baby, and assorted accoutrement - as well as some kind of better fuel economy. After much research, the result came as a 2011 GMC Terrain. It is a smaller SUV that has enough space and sipped the gas (terrain - 26 mpg) rather than quaffing great super tankers worth of fuel (explorer - 11 mpg).

Behold.....!

2011 GMC Terrain

In spite of the time it took to find it and the resulting time crunch we ended up being in to actually buy it, we came away very pleased. The Terrain has some nice features like satellite radio, OnStar, and a backup camera (very coolamondo, says the daddy.). It has done nicely on the trips up to Massachusetts and daily commutes to work and daycare.