Well the Mustang had to go.  My poor Pitakids had a hard time getting in and out of the back of that bloody thing so I traded it in for a VW Jetta TDI.  You read that right the TDI.  Why?  Well first the Jetta is a sporty little car with great handling plus it’s 4 door so the kids have an easier time entering/exiting the car.  It’s stick which I missed very much after the accident that totaled my Honda.  So why the TDI, considering it’s diesel and I’ve never owned a diesel before?  The answer to that is I was looking for a vehicle that would not only get better gas mileage than my Mustang (18mpg) but also a less carbon foot print on the environment.

I looked at the Toyota Camry Hybrid and the Honda Civic Hybrid.  Now don’t get me wrong they are great cars but something about driving around with a mini-power plant didn’t seem like such a great thing.  Plus my driving is not all city, I do have stretches in my drive where a Hybrid doesn’t make sense.  But early summer I was leaning towards the Camry Hybrid when I heard about VW bringing back the TDI.  From researching the new TDI, it not only has a small carbon foot print via the requirement that it not only run Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel and had to meet some of the worlds most restricted emissions requirements, but being diesel I can convert this to either bio-diesel fuel or run the car off vegetable oil via conversion kit.  Being that it’s brand new I won’t do either as I now average 31mpg but just about everyone that I’ve talked to said I won’t really break the engine in until I hit 60K and the gas mileage will improve after that.

So here is the new beast that I really love to drive