So the other day I was driving to work and all of a sudden my 2000 Honda Civic SI's engine turns off. I didn't have any idea why that happened, so I pulled over to the side of the road and I couldn't get it to start again. After discovering that my AAA membership expired 2 weeks ago, I had to call a tow truck for $80. That was annoying, but not nearly as annoying as finding out that the problem with my car was the timing belt which is a huge problem. Also, because I was going about 55 Mp/h at the time the piston rings got messed up, so in order to have this fixed I needed a new engine.
That poor civic has seen the worst of my high school car experiments and I was actually considering getting a new car sometime soon anyway because of all the crazy deals going on. So, I am donating the Civic to Habitat for Humanity and I purchased a 2009 Ford Focus.


I have never really been much of a fan of the Ford Focus in the past. However, this new body style actually looked pretty good to me, and it has a ton of great features (chrome package, mp3 player port, automatic everything, sweet glowing lights, microsoft phone sync). Not to mention that it was listed for $20k and I got it for $14k :-D.