New Car Coming Soon

Tomorrow, the new car may be delivered. I am pretty excited about it.

It is going to be the second car I own. My first car, Honda Civic, dark blue hatched back, EM 1701 (I had forgotten the last alphabet), died prematurely in 2001. It managed to keep me on the move for only 3 months when it was supposed to last until the scrap date, which would be 9 more months.

Back then, I paid $3000 for 12 months of road worthy vehicle, thinking that the depreciation was cheap. Never did I expect that, in the end, I would be paying for a piece of junk that depreciated $1000 per month.

To make matters worse, the roof leaked when raining, the wiper did not work, and I had to feed the radiator with liters of water for every single trip. Lastly, I had to endure the fear of the vehicle breaking down suddenly in the middle of the expressway. (Imagine the speed of vehicles coming from behind.)

A positive note from the above negativity was that, I learned quite some stuff about cars from the ordeal.

Now, my policy is this. As long as the car can bring me from Point A to Point B and it does not leak, and the depreciation is really low, minimal maintenance required, I will get it. And I hope this new car can last.