New car – part 2
Yes indeed. We now are a happy car owning family. Or at least very soon, some formalities left - like payment. And it turns out that the car was in stock at the dealer so we're probably have it in 14 days or less.
Another color though:
Renault Mégane Sport Tourer - Extreme Blue
New car
Despite the title of this post, we don't own a new car ... yet.
But we are looking to buy one. By living in central Stockholm and working from home, you don't need a car very often, which is why we don't have one. But now we have a kid and even if it's quite easy to take the commuter train to visit our families it's always somewhat of a hurdle. Plus, with a car of your own you get a completely different freedom to go wherever you want whenever you want without having to loan one from your friends or family.
As the third city in the world, Stockholm introduced congestion charges in 2006, but if you have an environmentally friendly car (relatively speaking) you're not charged anything. In a similar way it was free to park on the streets without paying any parking fees up until 2005 if you had such a car. That's history now, and so will probably the exclusion from congestion charges be as well, from 2011.
Nevertheless we're aiming for this car, Renault Mégane Sport Tourer (Swedish link), Expression Flex Fuel version, and we're going to pay a visit to look at it today.
Renault Mégane Sport Tourer
Perhaps we're a lucky car owning family by the end of the weekend. Then it's just n number of months before we can take it for a spin.