Who buys a new car on a whim?

Well if it's the right price and right time...we do.  And it's not that we haven't been talking about it for a while anyways.  David was taking the car in for maintenance and it was going to take 3 hours so he decided to check out the used vehicles to burn some time.  Then this spiffy Grand Caravan caught his eye.  It's a 2008, which is newer than our car but has more miles on it...probably a commuter vehicle.  Whoever owned it took care of it though.  So David took it on a test drive to our house so then the whole family could check it out.  Holly tested out all the seats including seat belts.  Loves that you can push a button to automatically close the doors.  When David got back to the dealership he found out that the car was going to need more stuff done, like new battery, fluids for everything, it adds up.  Not exactly immediately but probably within 3 months and altogether would have cost about $1,000.  Not to mention tabs would be due in October and we would have needed to go through emissions testing this time.  So David got a deal he was satisfied with and we have a new rig.  Haven't named it yet, the old car was named Orion if anyone was interested.  It's quieter than the car and I certainly feel safer being so high up now.  Now we have room for all the stuff as well as the kids and if the kids wanted a little friend along we have room for them too.  I don't think we could have managed a road trip to visit relatives or even gone camping in the car, there simply wasn't enough room. We've also been talking about another Refi as recommended by our real estate agent since rates are low right now.  It might be a good time to do that and roll the car into it so we don't have to think about it anymore.  I'll be making calls this week for sure.