[speaker001:] Are you in the market for a car recently?
[speaker002:] Yeah, I just bought a car.
[speaker001:] Oh, what did you get?
[speaker002:] I got a nineteen ninety-three Cavalier station wagon.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, what, what convinced you to get that one?
[speaker002:] Well, a friend of my father's, and he'd driven it all over the country
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and it runs great.
[speaker001:] Oh, incredible, how many miles on it?
[speaker002:] It's like, it has a hundred and fifty-three thousand.
[speaker001:] And it's still running real well.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Oh, great, yeah. We have, uh, right now we have two cars, uh, I have, my husband and myself and we have two sons who are drivers
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and one of which is a, um, an eighty-eight Plymouth Voyager Van, and then we have, um, about a year ago, we picked up a second hand, uh, uh, Audi
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh, that was a ca-, you know, a sedan, and, uh, we got that. The major things, the reason why we got that is we had had a Nova, and a, well, my son was driving, and someone came into his lane and hit him, and fortunately he was able to, his, I mean he was checked out of the hospital, was out of the hospital by that night, but the car was completely totalled
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and Mike, and, they had been, my two sons had been a passenger in a car about a year and a half before that, which was hit by another car.
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] So I mean, I got, I was getting really nervous, so I finally said, we, I want a really solid car. So we found the Audi second hand. I guess right now my criteria for cars is, uh, of being solid, able to take an impact [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] and, uh, so, uh, I, we're not going to be in the market for, in the near future for any new car.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh [clanging] [pans].
[speaker001:] But the things that I would want [NOISE] [dropping pan] would be a solid car. Another thing I'd definitely [NOISE] [dropping pan] want would be anti-lock brakes.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Uh, our, our [NOISE] van, which is a, a delight to drive, does not have, I think the brakes on the Plymouth van is just, are terrible. [NOISE]
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] If the road is at all wet, and I'm, and I don't go all that fast, but the, uh, it, it just doesn't hold. It doesn't hold well at all. So, I, I definitely want to get anti lock brakes. So, I don't know, do you have any particular things that, that are priorities on your list.
[speaker002:] Well, it's, I didn't really need power windows, but it has power, you know, windows
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and steering and air conditioning, and, and uh.
[speaker001:] I guess down here air conditioning's a must, isn't it.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, oh, yeah. It has a stereo and a cassette player
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and, um, he's told me it gets forty-two miles to the gallon.
[speaker001:] That's incredible.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] That is incredible.
[speaker002:] So.
[speaker001:] Uh, we, we get about, our, the van gets, on highways, can get about twenty-eight. The Audi does not have good mileage. That's the one drawback. It's a powerful car.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Um, but it does not, uh, I mean, I, if I'm on a highway and I can get twenty, twenty-one miles per gallon, I consider that luck-, I'm lucky. Maybe, maybe sometimes I've gotten twenty-two. It comes out around the eighteen or nineteen local driving
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and that's a, to me is a real drawback. I wish I would, you know, I could settle for twenty-eight, but, uh, the, uh, the frills on that car are nice, but they're not necessary, for me
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] except air conditioning. In this area, uh, in Washington D C area, it gets hot and humid.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, it's really humid.
[speaker001:] Yeah, uh, so air conditioning is def-, uh, definitely a necessity for us through two or three months in the summer. Um, but I, uh, I, I don't need, uh, you know, power windows are nice, but I don't need them [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Although I must say when you're driving in the east and there are all these toll roads, come into a toll road, you just push that button down, it's real nice for that window to zip down and zip up, instead of having to crank it.
[speaker002:] Crank, yeah.
[speaker001:] Yeah, but, or, you know, if you want to have open windows, to be able to op-, if you're alone in the car
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] just to press buttons, and.
[speaker002:] You don't have to stretch.
[speaker001:] But you know, I've lived all these years without them, I probably could have lived a little longer [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] That's true.
[speaker001:] Uh, one of the things that we have, uh, we've liked when we gotten a new car, and this, this used car has it, is a sun roof
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and those are really nice in good weather.
[speaker002:] That's right.
[speaker001:] So, so I guess if we get a new car, it definitely would have to have an-, anti lock brakes, I'd love to get an air bag
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and a sun roof, and, uh, just so it'd be a good solid car. I guess that those are m-, my major criteria. Everything else is, you know, a luxury, and they,
[speaker002:] [Throat clearing].
[speaker001:] make the car more expensive, but they often add more things to repair when things go wrong.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] So, uh, if you were to buy a new car now, a brand new car, what would you look for?
[speaker002:] Um, like you said, anti-lock brakes and air bag, and, uh, I'd, I'd really like to have a car that's dependable
[speaker001:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker002:] that, that you drive, you know, like a [throat clearing] American made car that's as dependable as Mercedes or somebody, you know that's,
[speaker001:] Isn't that true. It's, it's funny, um, uh, that you use, the Audi's German, and I have to say, it has been pretty dependable.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Yeah, sometimes, one advantage of an American made car, is if you get stuck anywhere, most local garages can fix you up.
[speaker002:] Yeah, they have parts, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] But once you get, if you, once you get something fancy, you get stuck somewhere off of the main area
[speaker002:] Right,
[speaker001:] you can be really, and the parts, I know the Audi parts are terribly expensive.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I mean, it jus-, I shudder. I would not get the Audi again, just for that reason. But I would love, I wish an American, an American, that, you know, engineering would make something as solid as a German car. You know, we
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] certainly have the technology, but, it's amazing, when we bought this Audi, I mean, everything is more solid in it.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Uh, if, you don't feel you've got any of the flabby plastic
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and I know, and I, I, and I'm willing to give up a little bit in the mileage for a solid car. I don't think I have to give up as much as I'm giving up.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] But, do you need air conditioning down there?
[speaker002:] Yes, we really do
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] because even today it's supposed to get up into the nineties. So [throat clearing].
[speaker001:] Oh, we've had eleven days in a row over ninety.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] They've in fact had to excuse school down here because of that.
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] Well, listen, I enjoyed talking with you.
[speaker002:] It was nice talking to you.
[speaker001:] Okay, and enjoy, enjoy your car.
[speaker002:] Yeah, have a nice summer.
[speaker001:] Thank you, you too, it's going to be a hot one.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Okay, bye-bye
[speaker002:] Bye-bye.