4 days ago (on Sunday) we decided it was time to look into replacing our old but very trusted Toyota Corolla. We'd surpassed the 200,000 mile mark on the odometer, and that dear car had been nothing but good to us, but it was time. Instead of putting more money into repairs it was going to need, we decided to go shopping. It was at our 4th dealership that hubby came practically running back to the car where I sat with the children who were tired of car shopping in the freezing cold, and gasped something along the lines of, "You have to come in the showroom. I've just found our new car!" There it was. A 2011 previously-owned but hardly used, fully-loaded and looking brand-new Nissan Leaf . (You know, the fully electric car. I wrote about it back in 2010. Funny that this one was the same shade of blue as the one I pictured here on the blog!) It even had solar panels on the spoiler. We were instantly smitten. Seriously, we were making goo-goo eyes at th