[Madelaine Amee]

Thanks to everyone who put their two cents into this discussion - I suppose I knew all along what I was going to do, but wanted some intelligent input to help with my decision.

Yes, I'd like to go zipping down the highway in a brand new shiny sport car with my hair streaming out behind me, but as my hair does not stream and I don't do too much highway driving any more, I think I'll sit on the car and save my investments. On the other hand someone did say to me recently, 'don't do what my parents did and save all your money to leave to your kids, because they will go through it like a dose of salts!'

In all seriousness, I have decided to have a diagnostics check on the whole vehicle, fix anything that needs it, get a new set of tires (which it does need), treat it to a good detail job and continue to run it. We only use it locally, we fly everywhere that is any distance away, and if I wanted to do a long distance journey I would rent a car.

As an afterthought, the dealer offered us $4,000 over the blue book price, so the car must be in pretty good shape!

Thanks again for your input.