{"id":690,"date":"2006-12-07T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=690"},"modified":"2006-12-07T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T05:51:00","slug":"one-more-car-im-looking-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/one-more-car-im-looking-at\/","title":{"rendered":"One more car I’m looking at"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my last post about cars, a good friend pretty much convinced me not to buy a new car for a while. After all, he argued, there’s nothing mechanically wrong with my car, and I live downtown and walk everywhere so no one knows what I drive anyway. Why not, he said, spend $500 to patch up the car’s interior, and keep driving it for several more years? That was the course I was leaning toward anyway, so it was good to get that advice.<\/p>\n

Then I started seeing a car – actually an SUV – on the road that I hadn’t noticed before: The Toyota FJ Cruiser.<\/p>\n

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Normally I’m not a fan of SUVs but this is a really sharp looking car, especially in its Voodoo Blue color. It has a 4-liter V6 which is plenty big enough for an SUV this size, and it looks like the base model (~$22K) comes with everything I would need. It just looks like it’s waiting to be driven to the beach. And it’s a Toyota so you know the reliability is good.<\/p>\n

Anyone own one of these? Or know somebody who owns one of these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my last post about cars, a good friend pretty much convinced me not to buy a new car for a while. After all, he argued, there’s nothing mechanically wrong with my car, and I live downtown and walk everywhere so no one knows what I drive anyway. Why not, he said, spend $500 to … Continue reading “One more car I’m looking at”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}